Re: autoconf-2.62: `make install' fails if file system is case insensitive

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding autoconf-patches] According to Keith Marshall on 5/9/2008 2:16 PM: | If autoconf's Makefile is processed by a GNU make-3.81, which has been | configured to respect a case insensitive file system, (IMO, the correct | configuration for use on

Re: let AC_MSG_FAILURE report pwd

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: People simply don't realize that there could be more than one config.log and config.cache file. OK to apply? Yes please. I took the liberty of applying it on your behalf. -- Eric Blake

Enforce --help/--version compliance

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
Since we aren't using automake's gnits option, I figured we could at least use its tests of --help and --version compliance. Committing this: From e7232d49cab7933f7eca277cf3ab864cd145c5a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:00:16 -0600 Subject:

Re: Site configuration files and configure defaults

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tim Post on 5/10/2008 8:34 PM: | I have been trying to find a way to change sysconfdir to just be | ${sysconfdir}, not ${prefix}/${sysconfdir}. I'd like to set that as a | configure default for my program. Sorry, but that goes against

AT_CHECK

2008-05-12 Thread Rikki Duncan
I have a test suite that compares a baseline output to an output created from a test driver. If I add a fprintf to my test driver for debugging purposes the test fail because of that additional output. Is there a way to allow AT_CHECK to overlook this line of output from fprintf so the whole test

#define warnings when using various autotools projects

2008-05-12 Thread aaragon
Hi everyone, A project of mine uses two autotools projects, each of which creates a config.h file where there are a bunch of #define statements. Well, when I compile I see several warning messages telling me that some of those variables are re-defined. What is the cleanest way to fix this? I

Re: AT_CHECK

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Rikki Duncan on 5/12/2008 11:39 AM: | I have a test suite that compares a baseline output to an output created | from a test driver. If I add a fprintf to my test driver for debugging | purposes the test fail because of that additional

Re: Site configuration files and configure defaults

2008-05-12 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 06:58 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Sorry, but that goes against GNU Coding Standards, so autoconf itself doesn't really permit changing this default in your configure.ac. Understandably. And for good reason. Not everyone installs into the FHS layout, and removing ${prefix}

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make install' fails if file system is case insensitive

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding autoconf-patches] According to Keith Marshall on 5/9/2008 2:16 PM: | If autoconf's Makefile is processed by a GNU make-3.81, which has been | configured to respect a case insensitive file system, (IMO, the correct | configuration for use on