Re: reporting full subdir path for subconfigure

2005-07-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, there were no objections, so I committed the patch below. Stepan 2005-06-27 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Report the full path, too. Index: lib/autoconf/status.m4

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59c] testsuite: 57 107 108 109 110 155 171 200 206 failed

2005-07-07 Thread Paul Eggert
Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, you made a typo, so you are in fact deleting variables with values starting with a dollar. Sorry about that. It was a missing apostrophe. I installed the corrected version below. Second, the intention to delete all lines matching /^[^=]*=''$/

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:46:40PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: You said you searched for this already: are all systems this happens on on win32? Maybe some unrelated process keeps some file open or prevents writing to some file? (just another wild guess

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Toby White
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:46:40PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: You said you searched for this already: are all systems this happens on on win32? Maybe some unrelated process keeps some file open or prevents

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Roberto, I looked at the lines in question: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:44:14PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote: echo $as_me:$LINENO: checking $ac_header usability 5 echo $ECHO_N checking $ac_header usability... $ECHO_C 6 cat conftest.$ac_ext _ACEOF /* confdefs.h. */ _ACEOF cat

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Toby White
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Toby White wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:03:33PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I now did that, too. First thing: I find only one reference to conftest.cc: No such file and while there are numerous such with conftest.c, reasons for failure are

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Toby White wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:03:33PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I now did that, too. First thing: I find only one reference to conftest.cc: No such file and while there are numerous such with conftest.c, reasons for failure are usually: I

Re: Configure help

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Rossi
Something like a --with-readline[=included] might be useful, although I don't know of an established convention for the optional `=included' part. Also, AC_CHECK_LIB can not even look for libreadline.a until after the make is done. Is there a way to ./configure make make install

Re: Configure help

2005-07-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:34:25PM CEST: Something like a --with-readline[=included] might be useful, although I don't know of an established convention for the optional `=included' part. Also, AC_CHECK_LIB can not even look for libreadline.a until after

Updating from vsn 2.57

2005-07-07 Thread Stroud Custer
I have version 2.57 of autoconf, which came with my SuSE distro. I have encountered some packages which require version 2.58 or above. When I try to run the current 2.59 build, I get a message that version 2.58 or above is required. Can I get either a binary distro of version 2.59 for SuSE,

FYI: cygwin /bin/sh has changed

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
Since autoconf appears to be the best collection of shell portability, you may be interested to know that as of July 7, 2005, cygwin's official /bin/sh is bash 3.x, rather than an old fork of the non-POSIX ash 0.2. Cygwin distributions still include /bin/ash, but I doubt many users will override

readline5.0 on solaris 10

2005-07-07 Thread ray . mccaffity
configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: ## ## configure: WARNING:

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59c] testsuite: 57 107 108 109 110 155 171 200 206 failed

2005-07-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Paul, I cannot agree with this change: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:02:56AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like LIBS='' too. They are generated by the Tru64 v5.1B shell. ... --- tests/local.at24 Jun 2005 00:47:20 - 1.18

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59c] testsuite: 57 107 108 109 110 155 171 200 206 failed

2005-07-07 Thread Nicolas Joly
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:24:51PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: Hello Paul, I cannot agree with this change: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:02:56AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like LIBS='' too. They are generated by the Tru64 v5.1B shell.

Re: reporting full subdir path for subconfigure

2005-07-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Report the full path, too. no, I noticed that Paul have also blessed the proposal that the line should be emphasized by ===. I actually committed the variant of the patch attached to this mail. Sorry, Stepan 2005-07-07