Re: ILD too long

2000-03-26 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Thomas" == Thomas Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> I wonder why automake passes CFLAGS and AM_CFLAGS Thomas> to libtool in link mode? This makes it impossible Thomas> to differentiate between compiler and linker (LDFLAGS) Thomas> flags. The GNU Coding Standards mandate this.

Re: To hack or not to hack

2000-04-03 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Michael" == Michael Bletzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> The first issue is: Where should the common configuration Michael> information needed to build the various subpackages be Michael> stored? It depends on your goals. Michael> I would like to set up a base package for the

Re: missing .deps/dtedio.pp

2000-05-02 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> For some reason, libtool and automake are conspiring to pass Gary> gcc's dependency generation options (-Wp,-MD,.deps/dtedio.pp) to Gary> your MIPSpro compiler. I *think* you might need to use an Gary> automake from after the `depg

Re: CVS HEAD and parallel make install

2000-09-05 Thread Tom Tromey
Alexandre> Anyway, on platforms that actually require relinking, this Alexandre> problem remains, and I see no way to overcome it other than Alexandre> arranging for automake to install libraries before Alexandre> executables, as you suggest. This shouldn't be a big Alexandre> problem, anyway. N

Re: rpath command?

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Tromey
>> Do I have to use some macro in configure.in to fill $(LINK) with GNU ld? Alexandre> automake should define it to `$(LIBTOOL) $(CC/CXX)...'. Alexandre> Maybe it only does this when there is at least one source Alexandre> file to compile in the current directory? Yeah, that's how it works. I r

Re: problem compiling on DEC with dependencies (cxx -M)

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Patrick" == Patrick Guio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> I am not sure if this is to be adressed to libtool or maybe Patrick> automake since the problem might come from depcom... Anyway Patrick> I am trying to build a c++ library using libtool on a Patrick> alphaev6-dec-osf5.0 using

Re: echoing command lines

2001-01-14 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Ben" == Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> When running libtool (in, say, compile mode), libtool echoes the Ben> command line used to invoke the compiler. This is very Ben> informative, but on systems where I like to use `make -s' to Ben> minimise `make' output across slow remo

Re: echoing command lines

2001-01-15 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> I think I wouldn't reject a patch that would look at Alexandre> MAKEFLAGS and turn libtool quiet if it finds a -s in Alexandre> there... Automake could do this too. But it will just make the Makefiles even more complica

Re: OS-sympathetic installation (fwd)

2001-02-14 Thread Tom Tromey
> "David" == David Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> But any such project would, I think, have a "libtool" David> interaction, and I know almost nothing about the insides of David> libtool. It would seem to require a variant of "libtool David> --mode=install" that doesn't actually do th

Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

2001-02-14 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> What I really want to build is 'swigShapeUtils.sl', which Jeremy> corresponds to the swigShapeUtils.pm module. But automake Jeremy> complains: Jeremy> automake: src/perl/swig/Makefile.am: `swigShapeUtils.la' is not a Jeremy> sta

Re: $ in source file names

2001-02-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If Automake doesn't support $ in source file names, then I would >> suggest that it isn't an important requirement for Libtool. Alexandre> I disagree. libtool can be used independently from Alexandre> automake. And, in fact, u

Re: problem compiling on DEC with dependencies (cxx -M)

2001-02-22 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Patrick" == Patrick Guio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry for the long delay in my reply to this... Patrick> I am not sure if this is to be adressed to libtool or maybe Patrick> automake since the problem might come from depcom... Could be either. Patrick> Anyway I am trying to build a

Note on --enable-shared

2001-03-22 Thread Tom Tromey
--enable-shared has the nice feature of letting the user choose what packages should have shared libraries. For instance in the gcc tree I could configure with --enable-shared=libgcc,libgcj to enable just those shared libraries. However, it turns out that in this same situation, libgcj really ne

Re: -Wp flag??

2001-04-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> I'm leaving the text of your email intact for the benefit of new Gary> readers on [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears that the problems you Gary> are experiencing are caused by the automated compiler dependency Gary> generation code in au

Re: MAINTAINERCLEANFILES

2001-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Ted" == Ted Irons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ted> I keep seeing the macro Ted> MAINTAINERCLEANFILES in the Ted> excellent Autoconf Book (G. Vaughan, et.all ) Ted> but can't find where MAINTAINERCLEANFILES Ted> is defined. I've looked in the produced Ted> aclocal.m4 and in the info page

Re: libtool 1.4: "make uninstall" broken?

2001-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
t calling "install-info" in that case, Peter> but "uninstall" does not. The rules in texinfos.am look like they both do the same thing regarding install-info. Peter> Tom Tromey said to me something along the lines that uninstall Peter> is of too little use to bother

Re: crosscompiling dll linux->mingw32

2001-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> A short while before the libtool-1.4 release, Edward M. Lee Gary> posted a joint patch to libtool and automake which takes care of Gary> the worst of this sort of thing. I applied the libtool parts Gary> before the release but the

Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-23 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Martin" == Martin Hollmichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Before I address your points, or at least the ones I plan to address, I thought first I would write my own critique of the auto tools. While I do think that these tools have deep problems, I also think you largely avoided mentioning

Re: make install-strip with libtool (CVS HEAD) && automake (CVS HEAD) fails

2001-06-03 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Is this a bug, or a non-existant feature? Robert> symptoms: Robert> automake's makefile calls libtool: Robert> STRIPPROG='strip' /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install -s hello.exe Robert> /usr/src/hellolib/build/t Robert> /usr/loc

Re: Enabling/disabling shared or static libs from Makefile.am

2001-06-08 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Pierre" == Pierre Sarrazin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pierre> Logically, it is in a Makefile.am file that I would like to Pierre> ask that a specific library should be static. If you are trying to build a static library, then simply don't use libtool for that library. Write `lib_LIBRARI

Re: building same source with different flag

2002-01-01 Thread Tom Tromey
> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> I can reproduce your problem by manually setting compiler_c_o and adl> compiler_o_lo to "no" in the libtool script generated for a adl> pet-project. So ... adl> As an immediate work-around, you can prevent `depcomp' to add adl

Re: libtool hates twiddling

2002-01-14 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> In general, I recommend specifying the tag name explicitly, Alexandre> like some Makefiles already do, and automake should Alexandre> eventually do. Could you submit an automake PR for that? Otherwise I guarantee we'll f

Re: Multiple link directories

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Albert" == Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> program_LIBADD=$(libdir)/libsomething.la >> Is there a way of telling automake that libsomething.la may be in any of >> several directories? Albert> What version of automake are you using? This isn't a libtool Albert> question

Re: GCJFLAGS

2002-03-01 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Albert" == Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Albert> Why does HEAD libtool use GCJFLAGS when autoconf 2.5x doesn't Albert> support it? The support is in automake. Tom ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman

Re: GCJFLAGS

2002-03-01 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Albert" == Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The support is in automake. Albert> That doesn't help when running autoconf though. Specifically, Albert> from libtool.m4: I meant that the variable is set in an autoconf macro that is supplied with automake. Albert> Shouldn't autoco

Re: Support for Objective-C[++]

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> ">" == F J Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I didn't see a reply to this. Sorry for the long delay... >> I'd like to add in support for Objective-C (*.m) and Objective-C++ (*.mm). >> I know about the work-around using the suffix rule, but it doesn't handle >> dependencies... Automake

Re: Please re-submit Cygwin patch

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> This may be because the mail archive is in HTML format, and Bob> saving to text makes it subject to the formatting whims of my Bob> browser. I also saved directly to HTML but that actually did Bob> worse. FWIW: I find the appended s

Re: .Po / .Plo Question

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Asim" == Asim Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asim> 1) Which tool/script/program generates .Po/.Plo files ? And at what Asim> stage ? They are initially created, as empty files, by configure when building the various Makefiles. Then, they are updated as a side effect of compilation. As

Re: [MAD SCIENCE EXPERIMENT]: Replace some libtool functionality with handcoded C

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> the *_OBJECT definitions assume the absence of shell-active Alexandre> characters in filenames, which is probably a safe Alexandre> assumption for Makefiles. It isn't unreasonable for a Java .class file's name to contain