Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-10 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: > This makes the sources diverge, it essentially means you're now the > maintainer of qt.m4. Fine by me. ??? I've retired. I'm maintaining nowt. Anyway, this thread has gone on way too long, so I'll shut up and bugger off. -- Angus

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-09 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:34:38PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > With your original, FATAL=0, code you'd get no other error message at all. That's a configurable parameter, easy to merge. > At least with Georg's addition to configure.ac, we get something > reasonably descriptive at the end of th

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-09 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:16:32AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> Sorry, that's FUD. AC_MSG_ERROR (currently disabled) would print an >> error message and abort. LYX_ERROR would not abort but would print an >> error message at the end of configuration. In other words, it wou

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-09 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:16:32AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Sorry, that's FUD. AC_MSG_ERROR (currently disabled) would print an > error message and abort. LYX_ERROR would not abort but would print an > error message at the end of configuration. In other words, it would > do exactly what the c

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-09 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:38:23PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: >> Let's turn your argument around: why not wrap LYX_ERROR on your >> side? > > For the same reason that the C library doesn't have functions called > apache_*() - generic code uses generic names. Sorry, that's FU

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:38:23PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > A coherent error message eh? > self explanatory and maintainable code in only one place? You don't maintain AC_MSG_ERROR, the autoconf authors. > Let's turn your argument around: why not wrap LYX_ERROR on your side? For the same

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-08 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: >> > I guess the question is whether John still uses qt.m4 in oprofile... >> >> Oh, c'mo guys! That's just feeble. > > Why is it feeble? It's no different to using a macro from one of the > autoconf libraries. If there's no reason to fork, then don't. What does > LYX_ERROR b

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:56:19PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > I guess the question is whether John still uses qt.m4 in oprofile... > > Oh, c'mo guys! That's just feeble. Why is it feeble? It's no different to using a macro from one of the autoconf libraries. If there's no reason to fork

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Angus> Can someone explain the rationale for those LYX_ERROR > messages Angus> in configure.ac if some Qt component is not found? > Why aren't Angus> we using LYX_ERROR in qt.m4 as in the attached > file? > > I guess the question is whether John still uses qt.m4 in op

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Angus Leeming wrote: > Can someone explain the rationale for those LYX_ERROR messages in > configure.ac if some Qt component is not found? Why aren't we using > LYX_ERROR in qt.m4 as in the attached file? probably because of this comment in qt.m4: dnl Please leave this alone. I use this

Re: qt configure madness

2005-11-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Can someone explain the rationale for those LYX_ERROR messages Angus> in configure.ac if some Qt component is not found? Why aren't Angus> we using LYX_ERROR in qt.m4 as in the attached file? I guess the question is whether John st

qt configure madness

2005-11-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Can someone explain the rationale for those LYX_ERROR messages in configure.ac if some Qt component is not found? Why aren't we using LYX_ERROR in qt.m4 as in the attached file? -- AngusIndex: config/qt.m4 === RCS file: /usr/local/ly