Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-06 Thread Keith Marshall
On Friday 06 May 2005 5:17 am, Keith Marshall wrote: > Attached is a small script, demonstrating a possible `searchpath' shell > function. Drat! Forgot the attachment! Here it is now ... searchpath.sh.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data ___ Grof

Re: [Groff] refer question

2005-05-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > is there a way to reset refer settings somewhere 'downstream' if > > the 'upstream' defaults are no good? > > > > specifically: > > > > in my document I source a certain defaults file in which, upon > > different other settings, one finds: > > > > ... > > .R1 > > database the_standard_database

[Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Good news for you, Jeff. Finally! Werner --- Begin Message --- Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any reason to stay with `.cc' as the extension for C++ files > for the autoconf tests, given that `.cpp' is much more portable? Not that I know of. I installed your patch.

Re: [Groff] refer question

2005-05-06 Thread joerg van den hoff
Peter Schaffter wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005, joerg van den hoff wrote: hi all, is there a way to reset refer settings somewhere 'downstream' if the 'upstream' defaults are no good? specifically: in my document I source a certain defaults file in which, upon different other settings, one finds:

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-06 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:51:17AM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > On Thursday 05 May 2005 7:40 pm, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > > BTW, I don't think Cygwin should be a measure of Unix compatibility. > > Possibly not; but, like it or not, Microsoft Windows has the largest user > base of any OS on the

Re: [Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:59:21PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Is there any reason to stay with `.cc' as the extension for C++ files > > for the autoconf tests, given that `.cpp' is much more portable? > > Not that I know of. I installed your patch. Thanks. Sorry I didn't follow this threa

Re: [Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Keith Marshall
On Friday 06 May 2005 8:09 pm, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > Obviously only gmake recognizes .cpp as a C++ file on a Unix system. > With older version of gmake on a different Unix machine .cpp has not > been recognized. This is precisely the reason why I suggested a slightly more sophisticated patch,

Re: [Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Sorry I didn't follow this thread and exact reason to change. > I see this as a good reason to leave it as .cc There are at least two C++ compilers (MSVC and a native OS/390 one) which can't handle the `.cc' extension, while *all* C++ compilers can handle `.cpp'. > c++ -O2 -o tryme tryme.c

Re: [Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Keith Marshall
On Friday 06 May 2005 9:54 pm, Paul Eggert wrote: > Keith Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Friday 06 May 2005 8:09 pm, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > >> Obviously only gmake recognizes .cpp as a C++ file on a Unix system. > >> With older version of gmake on a different Unix machine .cpp has n

Re: [Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Keith Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 06 May 2005 8:09 pm, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: >> Obviously only gmake recognizes .cpp as a C++ file on a Unix system. >> With older version of gmake on a different Unix machine .cpp has not >> been recognized. Sorry, I don't get the connection

Re: [Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:44:06PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > There are at least two C++ compilers (MSVC and a native OS/390 one) > which can't handle the `.cc' extension, while *all* C++ compilers can > handle `.cpp'. I know that. > Whether `make' programs recognize the `.cpp' extension by d

Re: [Groff] Fw: ac_ext problems

2005-05-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I should have known better than to question the wisdom of groff > developers. I guess I got paranoid using some other software where > people are quick to introduce changes without thinking them through. > Sorry for the noise. Well, it's sometimes very valuable to have an advocatus diaboli :-)