Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do the other Autoconf developers think about this? Safe enough to
> apply now, or postpone until after 2.60 (and require the APR people to
> keep (ab)using Autoconf internal interfaces, and dragging along a
> modified version of the _AC_INIT_PARS
* Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:17:49PM CEST:
> On 6/19/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >| > On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >| > >Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
> >| > >$sbindir without flagging that at
On 6/19/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Ralf Wildenhues
| Hello Justin, Tollef,
|
| * Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:40:12PM CEST:
| > On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > >Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
* Ralf Wildenhues
| Hello Justin, Tollef,
|
| * Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:40:12PM CEST:
| > On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > >Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
| > >$sbindir without flagging that at all. If it, in
Hello Justin, Tollef,
* Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:40:12PM CEST:
> On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
> >$sbindir without flagging that at all. If it, in addition to changing
> >$sbindir
On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
$sbindir without flagging that at all. If it, in addition to changing
$sbindir, it'd set ac_param_sbindir either to 1 to show that sbindir
is derviced from a command line argume
(Trimmed Cc list a fair bit)
* Ralf Wildenhues
| Hello Justin, Tollef, everyone,
|
| * Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:12:11PM CEST:
| >
| > The point of our autoconf macro is to allow 'shortcuts', such that the
| > argument
| >
| > --with-layout=Foo
| >
| > rewrites pre
Hello Justin, Tollef, everyone,
* Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:12:11PM CEST:
>
> The point of our autoconf macro is to allow 'shortcuts', such that the
> argument
>
> --with-layout=Foo
>
> rewrites prefix/libexec/etc to a specific set of values (dictated by
> our file con
On 6/15/06, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apart from the «ewww» factor, why can't it do its work in a subshell
> and echo back the parameters to be set and those get eval-ed by
> configure?
Yes, something like that might work, given that yo
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apart from the «ewww» factor, why can't it do its work in a subshell
> and echo back the parameters to be set and those get eval-ed by
> configure?
Yes, something like that might work, given that you know the values
can't contain "'" (though you shoul
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I too suspect that the apr macros should be fixed to not rely on $@,
> but this was a sudden and unannounced change in the Debian packages
> without a significant bump in the version number. (Personally, I'd
> treat this as an API bump and increase ve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] people: This is Debian bug report #372179, available at
http://bugs.debian.org/372179 . Autoconf sometime after 2.59 changed
the behaviour of AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM in a way that mangles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This
causes problems for APR_PARSE_ARGUMENTS which makes for hilarious
bui
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the long term, I suspect that the Autoconf macros in the
> apr-util package should be fixed, and that autoconf-doc should
> document that $@ may be changed by some macros.
I've done the latter by installing the patch at the end of this
message into Autoc
I've seen a flurry of Debian BTS emails around this bug, but none
of them have made it clear to me what I should do about it.
In the long term, I suspect that the Autoconf macros in the
apr-util package should be fixed, and that autoconf-doc should
document that $@ may be changed by some macros.
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