Re: A simplification of _AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT

2005-08-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:20:57AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: set x $ac_cv_$1 shift I wanted to avoid this workaround. I thought it might be nicer to reject all eveil values first, and then have some nice code to handle nice values. But it doesn't matter. What about the following

AS_SET_UNEXPANDED_ARGS proposal

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2005-08-24 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Simplify; rejecting some evil values and relying on the fact that $* concatenates the parameters by the first character from IFS. That looks

Re: Startup problems

2005-08-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Daryl, * Daryl Lee wrote on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:25:11PM CEST: I am trying to work my way through the GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool tutorial, and have run into a problem with (I think) Autoscan. If http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/autotools.html is what you're

Re: Startup problems

2005-08-24 Thread Daryl Lee
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Daryl, * Daryl Lee wrote on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:25:11PM CEST: I am trying to work my way through the GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool tutorial, and have run into a problem with (I think) Autoscan. If

Re: Startup problems

2005-08-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:15:26AM -0600, Daryl Lee wrote: It wasn't, but it is now :). I referred to the Goat Book by Vaughan, Elliston, Tromey, and Taylor, published by New Riders and online at http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html. that book was written when

Underquoting aclocals

2005-08-24 Thread Daryl Lee
Thanks to members of this group, I have been walking through Alexandre Duret-Lutz's fine Autotools Tutorial, and have encountered a problem at the outset. First, I upgraded my toolset to current (autoconf 2.59, automake 1.95, libtool 1.5.18, and gettext 0.14.4. Then I created the Hello World

Re: Startup problems

2005-08-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Stepan answered the rest already.. * Daryl Lee wrote on Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:15:26PM CEST: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: When I run autoscan in the foonly project, freshly untarred, I get a warning: missing AC_PREREQ wanted by: autoscan. Acknowledged. What a

Re: Underquoting aclocals

2005-08-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Daryl Lee wrote on Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:45:33PM CEST: When I ran autoreconf --install on the Hello World example, I got many underquoted definition errors in /usr/local/shared/aclocal. I picked the last one on the list, wrapped the macro name in brackets ([AM_PATH_CPPUNIT] instead of