Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Antony, * Boggis, Antony wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:47:43AM CEST: > After much googling and no answers (and least, none I can understand) > I am resorting to querying the wisdom of this list (and excuse me if > cc'ing is frowned upon). Yeah, it's usually nicer to choose one list only;

Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Boggis, Antony on 10/23/2008 5:47 PM: >> AS_HELP_STRING(--enable-purify,build with Purify [[default=no]]), > > This is underquoted. You need to get in the habit of properly quoting > your arguments: > > AC_ARG_ENABLE([purify], > [AS_HELP_STR

Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ben Pfaff on 10/23/2008 10:06 PM: >> AC_ARG_ENABLE([purify], >> [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-purify], [build with Purify [default=no]]), > > The Autoconf manual explicitly recommends underquoting > AS_HELP_STRING (though not its arguments)

Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Boggis, Antony on 10/23/2008 5:47 PM: > I have a global script that does the following (in this order): > > aclocal (aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.3) > autoheader (autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.57) > automake -a

autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-23 Thread Boggis, Antony
After much googling and no answers (and least, none I can understand) I am resorting to querying the wisdom of this list (and excuse me if cc'ing is frowned upon). We have a build environment that as it is, works pretty well. I have a global script that does the following (in this order): aclo