Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-13 Thread Marc Espie
Okay, guys, kill it. The main issue I have with Karel is that he lacks basic tact. But saying metaauto lacks some documentation is not necessarily wrong. However, since he's already written opensource software, maybe he could contribute ? I wouldn't object to a set of manpages for metaauto. I w

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-12 Thread Adam
Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >but maybe there is some URL explaining this topic. > > No, because you should have at least basic Un*x knowledge. > > I have a basic Unix knowledge. Do you think that someone who wrote 25% of a > graphical web browser that runs on the following platf

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/12/12 11:05, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > set it to the version number you want; if you need to run autoconf you > > probably also know how to read the /usr/local/bin/autoconf script and work > > this out yourself... > > According to this approach, M$ Window$ are open source, because you can >

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-12 Thread Marc Balmer
* Karel Kulhavy wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:31:06PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2006/12/04 16:15, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ autoconf > > > Provide an AUTOCONF_VERSION environment variable, please > > > > > > I suggest this error message to be extended with a

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-12 Thread Karel Kulhavy
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:54:00PM +0100, Andreas Maus wrote: > Hi. > > On 12/4/06, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ autoconf > >Provide an AUTOCONF_VERSION environment variable, please > Yes. Just do it. e.g.: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ env | grep AUTO > AUTOMAKE_V

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-12 Thread Karel Kulhavy
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:31:06PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/12/04 16:15, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ autoconf > > Provide an AUTOCONF_VERSION environment variable, please > > > > I suggest this error message to be extended with a pointer to information > > how to

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-12 Thread Andreas Maus
On 12/12/06, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. > You are kidding, aren't you ? No. o.k. > csh/tcsh uses setenv and sh/ksh/bash uses export No I mean explanation how the user obtains a list of available numbers and how to select from them. Short answer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/12/04 16:15, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ autoconf > Provide an AUTOCONF_VERSION environment variable, please > > I suggest this error message to be extended with a pointer to information > how to set this environment variable. As I wrote, I didn't find any manpage > about t

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-04 Thread Andreas Maus
Hi. On 12/4/06, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ autoconf Provide an AUTOCONF_VERSION environment variable, please Yes. Just do it. e.g.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ env | grep AUTO AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.9 AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.59 I suggest this error message to be extended

Re: autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-04 Thread mickey
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:15:41PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ autoconf > Provide an AUTOCONF_VERSION environment variable, please > > I suggest this error message to be extended with a pointer to information > how to set this environment variable. As I wrote, I didn't find

autoconf error message suggestion

2006-12-04 Thread Karel Kulhavy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ autoconf Provide an AUTOCONF_VERSION environment variable, please I suggest this error message to be extended with a pointer to information how to set this environment variable. As I wrote, I didn't find any manpage about this topic (even if the manpage list suggested it shoul