make compilation

2000-05-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Compiling make-3.79 with a current glibc snapshot. Autoconfiguration found out that the function 'strsignal' is available. But the header files declare it only when compiling with -D_GNU_SOURCE. (Which is ok, because 'strsignal' is by no means a standardized function.) So we get a warning:

make compilation, libit's gettext

2000-05-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Compiling make-3.79 with a current glibc snapshot. glibc-2.2 will have new features in gettext: automatic conversion of the translation to the right charset, and plural handling. 1) The default in all normal programs using AM_GNU_GETTEXT is to use the included gettext only if the system doe

Re: make compilation, libit's gettext

2000-05-03 Thread François Pinard
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The default in make-3.79 -- borrowed from libit-0.7 -- is to *always* > use the included gettext! I'm ready to change the default, given that some clues are auto-configured to discover that the installed gettext is better than the included one. Includin

Re: Bug#63364: make is not verbose enough

2000-05-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> Even though 'make -d' is quite verbose about dependencies, it is ms> not verbose enough about called shell programs and stuff. ms>I'm currently debugging this line: ms> ROOT_PREFIX = $(shell perl -MCwd -e '$$_ = cwd;s/^.*src\/?

Re: make compilation

2000-05-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bh> And the definition of _GNU_SOURCE in "make.h" comes too late, because at bh> the point where it is defined, a system header file has already been bh> included ( from "gettext.h"). Fix below. In particular, bh> "make.h" must always be the fir

Re: Bug#63364: make is not verbose enough

2000-05-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ms> Even though 'make -d' is quite verbose about dependencies, it is > ms> not verbose enough about called shell programs and stuff. > > ms>I'm currently debugging this line: > > ms> ROOT_PREFIX = $(shell