config.guess Linux overhaul

2000-12-06 Thread Ben Elliston
It's that time again. The config.guess script is losing on GNU/Linux and this time, I'm going to fix it. Background: on many GNU/Linux systems, config.guess uses the output of `ld --help' to determine which architecture, object file format and C library version the build system uses. The script

echoing command lines

2001-01-14 Thread Ben Elliston
When running libtool (in, say, compile mode), libtool echoes the command line used to invoke the compiler. This is very informative, but on systems where I like to use `make -s' to minimise `make' output across slow remote login sessions, these command lines are still output by libtool. Is there

PATCH: set --silent when run under make -s

2008-02-25 Thread Ben Elliston
patch detects when libtool is invoked by make -s and sets the same flag (opt_silent) as if it were invoked with --silent. Might my patch be accepted, as is? Obviously I will need to supply some changes to the documentation, too! Cheers, Ben 2008-02-21 Ben Elliston <[EMAIL P