Checking versions and defining macros

2008-03-04 Thread Jason Curl
Hello, To achieve my goals, I've borrowed some of the internals of the auto* tools (and libtool). I'd like to somehow check the version of the autotools during "autoreconf" time and include macros specific to a particular version. If I see a version that I haven't tested with, then I'd like t

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/4/2008 1:56 PM: | Hello libtoolers, | | 1) Can we move to use git now? I sure hope so! It appears to have worked out well for coreutils, autoconf, automake, m4, and gnulib, which are all closely related projects. |

Re: Validity of "fake" convenience library (libtool: to exclusive)

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Daniel Herring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Dan Nicholson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do you know if there's any way for automake to ignore the "include" > > keyword? I.e., I really want the "include" to be processed by make, > > not automa

Re: Validity of "fake" convenience library (libtool: to exclusive)

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel Herring
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Dan Nicholson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know if there's any way for automake to ignore the "include" keyword? I.e., I really want the "include" to be processed by make, not automake. The only ugly way I could think of was to include a dummy file that had the real inclu

Re: Validity of "fake" convenience library

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I am pretty sure that you can similarly avoid the need for a fake > >> convenience .la, but can not work it

Re: Validity of "fake" convenience library

2008-03-04 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> > I was just looking through the pic code evaluation in libtool.m4 and >> > not getting real excited about recreating that. >> >> In xserver's configure.ac you can, some

Re: Validity of "fake" convenience library

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > I was just looking through the pic code evaluation in libtool.m4 and > > not getting real excited about recreating that. > > In xserver's configure.ac you can, somewhere after AC_PROG_LIBTOOL,