Re: AM_ENABLE_SHARED?

2000-04-04 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> I have been using AM_ENABLE_SHARED(no) AM_ENABLE_STATIC(yes) Bob> AC_PROG_LIBTOOL Will probably disappear if you move to AC_, not AM_. Untested.

Re: assorted problems

2000-04-04 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Erez" == Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> configure.in:35: warning: The macro `AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS' is >> obsolete. You should run autoupdate. configure.in: 33: >> `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete, use `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' instead >> configure.in:50: warning: The macro `AC_LANG_C' is o

Re: AM_ENABLE_SHARED?

2000-04-05 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 4, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>>&

Re: Target for libtool?

2000-05-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> Hmm. I'm pretty sure autoconf 2.13 set target to "NONE". Yes, it did, definitely. But it makes the code much simpler not to give a default value. Now, if you think this is the beginning of troubles, we might change it back :(

Re: Target for libtool?

2000-05-10 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> Hmm. I'm pretty sure autoconf 2.13 set target to "NONE". Akim> Yes, it did, definitely. Gary> Nup. No problem with the change here. Alexandre> I think I've alread

Re: [PATCH] "Fix" to libtool.m4 to work with current CVS autoconf

2000-06-26 Thread Akim Demaille
| So, here's the "fix". However, this is not very robust, and the real | problem with the AC_REQUIRE diversions needs to be fixed. The patch is in the queue.

Re: Why does ltconfig unset CC?

2000-07-11 Thread Akim Demaille
| +AC_DEFUN(AC_PROG_LIBTOOL,[AC_REQUIRE([_AC_PROG_LIBTOOL]) | +# If AC_PROG_CXX has already been expanded, run AC_LIBTOOL_CXX | +# immediately, otherwise, hook it in at the end of AC_PROG_CXX. | + AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE([AC_PROG_CXX], | +[AC_LIBTOOL_CXX], | +[define([AC_PROG_CXX], defn([AC_PR

Re: Ensuring compatibility between libtool components

2000-08-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> I've just thought of a way to avoid any compatibility Alexandre> problems between libtool components: embedding ltconfig, Alexandre> ltmain.sh and ltcf-*.sh in libtool.m4. AC_PROG_LIBTOOL Alexandre> would extract ltconfi

Re: changequote used incorrectly

2000-09-08 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:12:34PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: | > - | > However, in a few places the macros need to use brackets (usually in C | > program text or regular expressions). In those places, they use the `m4' | > builtin command `changequote' to temporarily change the qu

Re: changequote used incorrectly

2000-09-08 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> I'm fixed now :-) :) Pavel> I'll try to remove changequote()s from libtool.m4 as long as it Pavel> remains compatible with Autoconf-2.13 This is totally independent from the Autoconf release.

Re: [PATCH] Fix for bootstrapping with latest CVS Autoconf

2000-10-12 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Oct 11, 2000, Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Autoconf straight out of CVS will complain about "backquotes and | > doublequotes should not be backslashed" when expanding the macro code | > of _LT_AC_LTCONFIG_HACK libtool.m4. | | The problem is that CVS autoconf changes the way

Re: [PATCH] Fix for bootstrapping with latest CVS Autoconf

2000-10-12 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> I'm definitely in favor of this change. OK< I consider this an OK and will apply the change directly. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: [Patch] interlibrary dependency parsing in libltdl from CVS HEAD

2000-10-20 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Matthias" == Matthias Koeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthias> There was also a bunch of missing quotes around `test' Matthias> arguments in the scripts, which confused /bin/test on Matthias> Solaris 2.7 boxes. Could you give some more details on this problem? IMHO, these variables s

Forbidden strings

2000-11-03 Thread Akim Demaille
In Autoconf, the words which include _A?_, A?_, _m4_, m4_ are forbidden, in order to diagnose unexpanded macros. There is (currently) no escape to this rule. But then we have a conflict for Libtool for: ~/src/libtool % ace nostromo 15:58 configure:5

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Bernard" == Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernard> Whar is AS_xxx used for in autoconf? Autoshell, see m4sh.m4. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> Hello, Akim! >> In Autoconf, the words which include _A?_, A?_, _m4_, m4_ are >> forbidden, in order to diagnose unexpanded macros. There is >> (currently) no escape to this rule. Pavel> Not _m4_. Then we should, shouldn't we? N

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-06 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd rather take almost the full range and except AR if we need to. Alexandre> I'd prefer that the maintainers of autoconf weren't so Alexandre> greedy about prefixes :-) In fact my position (let's take the full range) is also b

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-07 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Nov 6, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why not just prefix the reserved autoconf variables with a `_' >> character? Alexandre> autoconf used to use just AC_/ac_. Now, it's claiming Alexandre> ownershi

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-07 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Earnie> But, neither of you answered my question. Why not use `_' to Earnie> prefix A?_* names? You can then declare that the user is Earnie> incorrect as _A?_* is a vendor variable! I as a user should Earnie> be allowed to declare A?_

CVS Autotools

2000-12-12 Thread Akim Demaille
I'm happy to say that running the test suites of both Libtools and of Automake with CVS Autoconf works fine. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

ac_ (Was: Remove -fPIC -DPIC under DJGPP)

2000-12-14 Thread Akim Demaille
+*djgpp*) + # DJGPP does not support shared libraries at all + ac_cv_prog_cc_pic= + ;; Aah! Libtool uses the ac_ name space??? That's quite risky... ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listin

Re: CVS Autotools

2000-12-19 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Raja" == Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raja> Hi, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm happy to say that running the test suites of both Libtools and >> of Automake with CVS Autoconf works fine. Raja> Th

Re: CVS Autotools

2000-12-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Raja" == Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raja> OK. But, this problem isn't due to the redefining. I can Raja> repeat it with Raja> AC_INIT AC_PROG_CXXCPP AC_OUTPUT Ah ah! Thanks! ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Autoconf 2.49c: Release candidate

2001-01-24 Thread Akim Demaille
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.utils.bug as well. The Autoconf team is extremely proud (and quite relieved) to announce the birth of Autoconf 2.49c, our release candidate. The core Autoconf is not expected to change before the release, while t

Re: ltconfig fails during 'configure'

2001-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Robert" == Robert Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Ok, I changed AC_CANNONICAL_HOST to AC_CANNONICAL_SYSTEM in Robert> configure.ac and it works. However, this doesn't appear to be Robert> the 'proper' fix because AC_CANNONICAL_SYSTEM is obsolete. I Robert> also have tried AC_C

RFC: Autoconf 2.50 is released

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team is extremely proud (and quite relieved) to announce the release of Autoconf 2.50. As can be guessed from the NEWS excerpt below, profound changes have been made in order to provide a more coherent interface and more user-friendly macros. Autoconf can be downloaded from

Portability of find(1)

2001-09-18 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi People! I'm looking for information on the portability of find(1). Please, send me everything you know. In particular, I think I'm understanding that `{}' is portably replaced by the argument only when alone, i.e., exactly find ... {} ... and not find ... "foo: \{\}" ...

Re: libltdl & 64-bit lint

2001-10-01 Thread Akim Demaille
>> sprintf (filename, "%.*s/%s", (int) dirname_len, dirname, dlname); Given that the rest of ltdl uses strcpy and strcat, I fail to understand the presence of this sprintf. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG versus Cray sed

2001-10-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Kevin" == Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> On an sv1-cray-unicos10.0.0.X with the cvs libtool I noticed Kevin> the following error, Kevin> configure: creating libtool sed: 1: Kevin> "s/[-_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR ...": RE error: [ ] imbalance or Kevin> syntax error appendin

Re: Libtool and echo (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8)

2001-10-05 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04 Oct 2001 17:38:43 >> +0200 >> >> some of our parts would be extremely happy to have as good a shell >> as possible. For

Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'

2001-10-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > it is probably still worth mentioning in the autoconf manual's >> > section on portable shell programming. >> >> Yes, that makes sense. Tim> I'll whip up something tomorrow. Hi Tim! ;)

Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'

2001-10-23 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> Something like this, perhaps? For sure! ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

AM_LDFLAGS += -no-undefined

2014-04-08 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi all, My project builds many libraries and some modules. I've just started using ltdl in it, with a non-recursive build. As a result, I have inherited the following line in my single Makefile: AM_LDFLAGS += -no-undefined so my libraries now fail to link. Is this on purpose? Shou

Re: AM_LDFLAGS += -no-undefined

2014-04-08 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi Bob! Le 8 avr. 2014 à 16:28, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit : > On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Akim Demaille wrote: > > This option is necessary in order to build DLLs under Windows (and likely > shared libraries under AIX). I do understand it is needed on some platforms, but I don't ai

Re: AM_LDFLAGS += -no-undefined

2014-04-08 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 8 avr. 2014 à 19:01, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit : > Libltdl is likely managed by a package manager on the system since it is a > common component on any GNU/Linux system and other free systems. By embedding > libltdl in some other application or library, the users of that application > or lib

Libtool and ASAN

2014-04-28 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi friends, I'm trying to use -fsanitize=address on OS X using MacPorts' Clang++ 3.5. The project consists of C++ libraries, on top of which is built a Python module (with a thin C++ layer which needs to be compiled). Libtool (2.4.2 - the name of a fine belgian band of electronic music btw) is us

Re: Libtool and ASAN

2014-05-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 17 mai 2014 à 03:36, Peter Rosin a écrit : > Hi! Hi Peter, Thanks for the answer! >> My other libraries, which are not modules, are linked properly though. >> For instance (the only relevant part is that -fsanitize is not stripped >> from the command passed to the linker): > > This part I

Prevent libtool from moving flags

2015-09-07 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! I have a library that, when loading, invokes functions in the main application. So dependencies are really resolved in reverse: the main program does not "need" the libraries, it is the libraries that use the main program to inform it that they are there. In such a case, some distros, suc

sh portability questions

2005-09-27 Thread Akim Demaille
Now that there are no doubts about the portability of shell functions (in the sense that there's always a shell on the machine that supports function ---and maybe the documentation should reflect this), I'm curious about the support of "return" and "local". Is there anything known about them? IS

Re: sh portability questions

2005-09-28 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "local" isn't in POSIX so I'd avoid it in portable scripts. Doh. Thanks. > For what it's worth, I briefly searched for this issue and found these > bug reports dated this year where someone used "local" in a shell > script and someone

Re: sh portability questions

2005-09-28 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> if (local foo) >/dev/null 2>&1; then :; else >> local () { true; } >> fi > Note that local is only valid in funct

Installing convenience libraries

2006-09-29 Thread Akim Demaille
[Please keep me in CC.] Hi, I'm trying to build a convenience library, install it, build another convenience library on top of it (and again install it), and finally link an executable using the latter library. I thought I could do that using Libtool static libraries with extension .la, but it

Re: Installing convenience libraries

2006-09-29 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Akim, > * Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:41:36AM CEST: >> >> I'm trying to build a convenience library, install it, build another >> convenience li

Re: Installing convenience libraries

2006-09-29 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks Ralf, > (The only system it won't work on then is w32 with MSVC with the > LIB archiver instead of ar.) Bummer. But I'm not surprised :) > Hmm. By default the > libtool --mode=link $CC -o liba.a a.lo > will choose the no

AC_REQUIRE hell

2008-12-12 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! There must be something not going too well in the AC_REQUIRES of ltld. In the attached configure.ac, some macros are issued out of order, which results in, for instance, shrext_cmds being used before its definition: $ grep -E 'shrext|If you need' configure eval libltdl_cv_shlibext=$

libtool.git & cl.exe & Mingw32

2008-12-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi friends, It's cold, the win32ter's back, and I'm a lonely winderer in the winderful country to losedows. As you suggested, I'm moved from pw32 to ming32, and as a result, I now have a "wrapper.exe" instead of a shell script "wrapper". This is wonderful news, since I was wasting a lot

Re: libtool.git & cl.exe & Mingw32

2008-12-22 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 21 déc. 08 à 17:49, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : Hi Akim, Hi Ralf! * Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:41:34AM CET: Yet I have a slight problem: for some reason the top-level wrapper (lt- cli.exe in my case) tries to launch .libs/lt-cli.exe, which does not exist. What does

Re: AC_REQUIRE hell

2008-12-30 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 29 déc. 08 à 22:55, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : Hi Akim, * Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:17:08AM CET: There must be something not going too well in the AC_REQUIRES of ltld. In the attached configure.ac, some macros are issued out of order, which results in, for

Re: cccl usage

2009-04-19 Thread Akim Demaille
[Resending this email because it has been refused from several places, apparently because the attachment triggers virus-detectors for whatever reason. Hopefully tz2 should be ok.] Le 19 avr. 09 à 18:29, tsuna a écrit : (catching up on some super old emails) On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:07 PM,

Autoconf 2.52g is released

2002-01-25 Thread Akim Demaille
002 18:44:16 - 1.1829 ** 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version 2.52g. 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author. 20

Re: distcheck fails after libtoolizing

2002-02-27 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ilya" == Ilya Shlyakhter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ilya> Hello, I've converted my project to use libtool, and it compiles Ilya> fine but doing "make distcheck" fails saying that after make Ilya> distclean, files are left. I'm on cygwin and the only file left Ilya> is called "a.exe". Wh

Re: libtool and gcj

2002-03-01 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Per" == Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Per> Unfortuntely, autoconf 2.52 does not define 'Java' as a language. Per> But that can probably be worked around. Autoconf 2.52+ would be most happy to support Java. ___ Libtool mailing list [EM

Autoconf 2.53 is released

2002-03-08 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team is extremely pleased to announce Autoconf 2.53. We hope it will address your problems, and make your life easier. Enjoy! Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, Tom. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz (973 kB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.t

Re: libtool and gcj

2002-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Per" == Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Per> Perhaps we could start by defining some or all of AC_PROG_GCJ, Per> AC_PROG_JAVAC (the .java->.class compiler), and AC_PROG_JAVA (the Per> Java .class file "interpreter"). Or perhaps there could be a Per> AC_JAVA that subsumes all three

Re: Configure tool/cvs repository trouble

2002-05-29 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Patrick" == Patrick Guio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> If I just "touch configure" then everything is running ok Patrick> again. I am not sure which of the package is generating this Patrick> trouble nut is there any policy/strategy of using Patrick> configuration tool together with

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-24 Thread Akim Demaille
| Am Mon, 2002-09-23 um 10.49 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz: | > >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > [...] | > | > Ralf> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-January/001659.html | > | > Ralf> .. which seems to indicate that libtool is the culprit. |

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-24 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Roger" == Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> .. still nobody wanting to care to fix it? >> AFAICT it's fixed in CVS Libtool. Roger> And in Debian. Am I crazy suggesting that Debian Libtool be the next Libtool release? ___ Libtool m

Re: Automake 1.6d available (beta for Automake 1.7)

2002-09-24 Thread Akim Demaille
| Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: | > Bruce> My preference would be this: | > | > Could you send this to the list? | | Alright: | | I would really like to see the auto* tools packages (autoconf, | automake and libtool) each adopt several of their worst | clients' packages for regression testing.

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-25 Thread Akim Demaille
| > I have not read all the details yet, but does anybody know what we | > must do to cope with Libtool 1.4.2? | | How about this patch to Autoconf? It should let us limp along until a | new libtool version is published. | | --- old/BUGS 2002-03-26 08:14:37.0 -0800 | +++ new/BUGS 200

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-08 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> Wouldn't it be better to get libtool 1.5 out the door? The Bob> resources required to achieve a releasable product are similar Bob> and CVS libtool already contains most of the fixes that would go Bob> into a 1.4.3. There is one bi

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Sascha" == Sascha Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sascha> We use it for the PHP project (>80k lines configure script), Sascha> because 2.5x is 5 to 6 times slower That's because it does provide a better service too :( I have timed a lot of the code, and I can tell that we're hittin

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Great thread people! I'm happy to see you're alive :) Russ> There were a variety of reasons for breaking backward Russ> compatibility, like choosing to clean up quoting, but that's a Russ> justification for doing it, not an argument that

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Robert" == Robert Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Ok, So a 1.4.3 version is desired, that's established. The Robert> million-dollar question is: Does current branch-1-4 Libtool do Robert> the trick? Robert> If so, then a roll out could be done within the week. I would like to

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Akim Demaille
| > Sascha> and contains a dependency-ignorant cache system. | > | > What do you mean? | | Each of PHP's bundled extensions has a config.m4 which can be | maintained separately. Autoconf 2.50 and later insert stale | code into configure, when such a config.m4 file changes. You want

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-10 Thread Akim Demaille
| > You want autoconf -f then. | -f, --force consider all files obsolete | | We do a ./cvsclean right now for autoconf +2.50 which purges | all generated data. I guess that is basically the same. | | > You know, you are typically the kind of people who has valid grieve

Autoconf 2.54a is released

2002-10-25 Thread Akim Demaille
ions, please run the test suite of Autoconf 2.55 on it, and report the results to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ChangeLog entries: 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version 2.54a. * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils. (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete. (autom

Autoconf 2.54c is relased

2002-11-04 Thread Akim Demaille
ChangeLog 4 Nov 2002 08:47:39 - 1.2092 ** 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version 2.54c. * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update): New.

Touching the PATH

2002-11-05 Thread Akim Demaille
I fyou look at the current tarball of GNU M4, located here: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/m4-1.4q.tar.gz or .bz2 you'll see that make distcheck fails, while make check passes. distcheck fails in a simple way, corresponding to this: ~/src/m4/m4-1.4q/=build/tests % echo 'esyscm

Re: [shell functions, was RE: solving of name conflicts in included.a]

2002-11-14 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Robert" == Robert Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> All, Hey, that's a relief, now we don't have to deal with this Robert> issue anymore. I would be in favor of a) leaving the shell Robert> functions in place, and b) making use of them more. I don't agree. Autoconf does not use

Autoconf 2.55 is released!

2002-11-14 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy to annonce the birth of Autoconf 2.55. Download, compile, install, torture, and enjoy! - Why should I upgrade from 2.54? A few bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with 2.54 and 2.55, forthcoming Gettex

Re: [shell functions, was RE: solving of name conflicts inincluded.a]

2002-11-15 Thread Akim Demaille
Bruce> Bootstrap-Bash could use a frozen version of configure. This means freezing at least one copy of Bash. Doable. But I still think it might be a bit too soon. I don't see the urgency to move to shell functions, but I do see how they can simplify our lives.

Autoconf 2.56 is released

2002-11-15 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy to annonce the birth of Autoconf 2.56, aka 2.55 with a packaging problem fixed. - Why should I upgrade from 2.54? A few bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with 2.54 and 2.55, forthcoming Gettext release

Autoconf 2.57d released

2003-09-25 Thread Akim Demaille
NEWS * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57d * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57b Released 2003-08-24, by Akim Demaille. ** Autotest and local.at The optional file local.at is always included in Autotest test suites. ** Warnings The warnings are always issued, including with cached runs. This be

Autoconf 2.57f is released

2003-10-01 Thread Akim Demaille
Released 2003-10-01, by Akim Demaille. * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57e Released 2003-09-29, by Akim Demaille. ** AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS The directory for its first argument is automatically created. For instance, with AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([src/modules.hh], [...]) $top_builddir/src

Darwin: interlib deps

2004-12-04 Thread Akim Demaille
I'm not sure I understand how interlib deps are expected to work. In a project of mine, I have several directories containing libs. For instance, in the ast/ directory I have the following Makefile.am snippet: noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libast.la libast_la_SOURCES = \

Re: Darwin: interlib deps

2004-12-04 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 4 déc. 04, à 16:21, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit : libast_la_LIBADD=../symbol/libsymbol.la ../task/libtask.la \ ../misc/libmisc.la Does that help? But it results in libast containing all the other libraries. I tried to avoid that. ___ Libtool mailing lis

Re: Darwin: interlib deps

2004-12-04 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 4 déc. 04, à 18:13, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit : On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Akim Demaille wrote: Le 4 déc. 04, à 16:21, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit : libast_la_LIBADD=../symbol/libsymbol.la ../task/libtask.la \ ../misc/libmisc.la Does that help? But it results in libast containing all the other libraries

Understanding -static

2004-12-23 Thread Akim Demaille
I'm not sure I understand correctly what -static means for programs. My understanding is that during the build, libraries against which the program is linked are statically linked if there are not installed *now*. Reading the documentation, it is somewhat unclear to me whether it refers to librar

Re: Understanding -static

2005-01-03 Thread Akim Demaille
This message (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-12/msg00263.html) is left without answer. I am quite stuck currently. It seems to me that it is due to a CVS libtool bug on Darwin, but I have received no confirmation. The original message includes a test case. Thanks! I'm not sure I

Re: Understanding -static

2005-01-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 4 janv. 05, à 00:02, Peter O'Gorman a écrit : Hi Akim, Hi! I have no idea what is supposed to happen in this situation. You have specified that static libraries should not be built and also asked that executables be statically linked against not-yet-installed libraries. Right. If you configure w