AT_TESTED: make it work with full paths from AC_PATH_PROG

2009-11-17 Thread Allan Clark
Hi; in Autoconf-2.64, AT_TESTED() only works with utilities that would be found with AC_CHECK_PROGS(). Full pathnames don't work, so tools such as AC_PATH_PROGS() that report a full pathname cannot be AT_TESTED(). The following patch should resolve this -- really all it does is preface a / into

Re: AT_TESTED: make it work with full paths from AC_PATH_PROG

2009-11-17 Thread Allan Clark
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 13:01, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Allan Clark on 11/17/2009 3:30 AM: Hi; in Autoconf-2.64, AT_TESTED() only works with utilities that would be found with AC_CHECK_PROGS(). Full pathnames don't

Re: Is there a macro to write an arbitrary file?

2009-10-13 Thread Allan Clark
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:13, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.netwrote: We have a makefile in a project, which works well. In the short term at least, we do not want to use autoconf to create a makefile, but instead use our own. However, it would be nice to have a configure script at

Re: AM_CONDITIONAL seems failure, help

2009-10-09 Thread Allan Clark
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 09:34, 张亚霏 zhangyafeik...@gmail.com wrote: hi all: I write these lines in configure.in: AC_CHECK_LIB([pcre], [pcre_compile], [build_pcre=true], [build_pcre=false]) AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_PCRE],[test $build_pcre = true]) AC_MSG_CHECKING(pcrecpp) AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([

Re: project in multiply directories

2009-09-28 Thread Allan Clark
On Sep 28, 2009, at 12:04, Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org wrote: There is an article called recursive make considered harmful. According to it, you should have just one Makefile.am in top level with all the rules (all libs etc). By this, make can show its strengths best. Often, a

Re: autotest: Temporarily starting daemons

2009-08-02 Thread Allan Clark
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 18:00, imfel...@gmail.com imfel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to temporarily fork off a daemon (BIND's named) within a testsuite. Yet the testsuite hangs despite having started the daemon. Below is an excerpt of the circumstances. Running testsuite -v shows that the

Re: Noooooooooo!

2008-09-02 Thread Allan Clark
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 14:22, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Harlan Stenn wrote: I've used cross-compiles (off and on) for years and I gotta say the first time I got this message I probably did some pissing and moaning. But I do believe that proper naming is the

Re: Autoconf and apt

2008-08-19 Thread Allan Clark
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:24, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Robert Rehammar wrote: This way autotools would integrate with (e.g.) apt to make installations more smooth. This would save the user the work to download and install all packages that bar depends on and that

Re: Autoconf and apt

2008-08-19 Thread Allan Clark
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 17:14, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: IMVHO any kind of repetition of knowledge encoded in rpm and apt (or system vendor X package) databases is not tolerable, if it needs to be hand-maintained in any way. It's

Re: Autoconf and apt

2008-08-19 Thread Allan Clark
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 17:37, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Allan Clark wrote: Heh. Jokes aside, I figured there's a good chance that the same project (ie http://freshmeat.net/projects/{PROJECT}http://freshmeat.net/projects/%7BPROJECT%7Dor http

Re: A rosetta stone of package names?

2008-07-26 Thread Allan Clark
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 21:27, Tim Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Richard, On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 15:07 +0100, Richard Ash wrote: Such a look up table would be priceless, I think :) I have had zero luck in finding one. A compiled table would be large, cumbersome and perennially out

Re: just one of a million reasons why autoconf is a worthless piece of shit (2)

2008-03-16 Thread Allan Clark
don't feed the troll? The poster raises no concrete suggestions, and seems to focus on his own ease, not the portability of his product. Seems to be just tossing crap around, trolling for a response. Some of us are defined by who we're fighting rather than what we're building. Allan On Sun,

Re: AC_FOREACH public?

2005-10-24 Thread Allan Clark
Stepan Kasal wrote: Hello, On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:30:25PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Being deprecated is different that being removed, and as such it would be good to have a reference to AC_FOREACH in the eventual documentation of m4_foreach and others, with the info that AC_FOREACH

[OT] reply-to (was: AC_FOREACH public?)

2005-10-23 Thread Allan Clark
Keith Marshall wrote: On Saturday 22 October 2005 10:08 am, Allan Clark wrote: You might want to consider switching to elm, mutt, or a Mozilla-based client (if you're a graphical guy); they have these features, and are fairly well-tested. I don't have any option to do this -- I am

Re: AC_FOREACH public?

2005-10-22 Thread Allan Clark
Keith MARSHALL wrote: Oops. Forgot that GNU's list mailers don't set the Reply-to header properly, (can this not be fixed?), and only replied privately to Stepan. My mailer allows me to choose. I use reply when I want to make a private reply, and reply-all when I want to reply to the list as

Re: AC_CHECK_PROG is incompatible with alias

2005-10-10 Thread Allan Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: make: cd tdg/en/html hhc index.hhp /bin/sh: line 1: hhc: command not found Why does AC_CHECK_PROG find hhc ? Isn't Why doesn't 'make' find 'hhc'? a better question? of course it's a good question. But a goal of autoconf

Re: listing all sources

2005-08-25 Thread Allan Clark
Trevor Woerner wrote: I have a project with source files in multiple subdirectories: src, tests, cfg. Doxygen will generate code documentation based on special hints in the comments of the code files themselves (like javadoc, if you're familiar with that mechanism). I could just blindly have

Re: Problem with autoconf

2005-08-09 Thread Allan Clark
Yudai Yamagishi wrote: Hi, I have RedHat Linux 9.0 working as a server. Recently I tried to install autoconf-2.59-80 using rpm but gave me these errors. file /usr/share/info/standards.info.gz from install of autoconf-2.59- 80 conflicts with file from package binutils-2.13.90.0.18-9 I need to

Re: changing compiler from gcc to mpiCC

2005-06-27 Thread Allan Clark
Hi cool_nithu; $ ./configure --with mpiCC=yes --without-gcc 1) --with-, ie --with-mpiCC=yes (no space) 2) ./configure --help should tell you if that's even an option (if it's not, ./configure ignores it) Did these options come from that package? Did you get them from some

Re: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF for members

2005-05-12 Thread Allan Clark
Paul Eggert wrote: Sam Steingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] the reason I want a CPP macro and not a run-time if is that the code will end up looking like this: if (size_of(u.ut_tv.tv_sec) = 4) a_function_expecting_32_bit_argument(u.ut_tv.tv_sec); else

Re: warning from AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77)

2004-11-13 Thread Allan Clark
John W. Eaton wrote: I'm using Autoconf 2.59: devzero:450 autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even

Moderated list?

2004-06-11 Thread Allan Clark
I regret if this is a recurring query; I didn't find in archives. Is there a moderated form of this list? Has anyone established a moderated list on his/her own server that feeds from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Allan ___ Autoconf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Libtool 1.4.3 - unsolvable issue

2002-10-08 Thread Allan Clark (rply to list pls)
Libtool-ers; I think this issue simply becomes mired by stacking up on either side of a for/against line. Previously, it was mentioned that certain troublesome source trees be used as litmus tests for automake or autoconf changes; the same may hold true now for libtool. Brief summary: if you

Re: Objections? Re: Checking for CXX libraries -- AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB ?

2002-09-30 Thread Allan Clark (Reply to List Only)
Sebastian; AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB (LIBRARY, DECLARATION-SECTION,CALL-SECTION, [ACTION-IF-FOUND],[ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND], [OTHER-LIBRARIES]) You've added a declaration section to my sample. Is this a re-statement without further reinforcement or justification that you want to have a #include

Re: Configure tool/cvs repository trouble

2002-05-29 Thread Allan Clark
Patrick Guio wrote: If I just touch configure then everything is running ok again. I am not sure which of the package is generating this trouble nut is there any policy/strategy of using configuration tool together with a cvs repository? A common timestamp issue is introduced when developers

Re: Site Macro Directory

2002-05-16 Thread Allan Clark
Mark D. Roth wrote: On Wed May 15 17:21 2002 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: I use Automake's aclocal for this. It generates aclocal.m4 automatically from m4/*.m4. In my case, the m4/*.m4 files are often links to the canonical versions. Unfortunately, that won't work for me, since I use

Re: OpenWatcom support

2002-05-12 Thread Allan Clark
John; I find that it's made for GCC, but seems to support (by checking) a number of other build systems. For example, it detects and supports the UnixWare, Open UNIX build systems, Open Server, and I think it also works with the Intel icc tool. In this do-it-yourself realm, I'm sure if you try

FAQ? C++-based AC_CHECK_LIB?

2002-03-28 Thread Allan Clark
AutoConf; This may be a Question from the FAQ -- I'd read it if I knew where it was. How do I make a AC_CHECK_LIB for a C++ library? My example looks for cgi_base::configureForServer on different systems like this: AC_CHECK_LIB(cgi, configureForServer__8cgi_basePci) AC_CHECK_LIB(cgi,

Re: UnixWare-7.1.1 failure of autoconf-2.49c selftest (pass cvs HEAD )

2001-03-06 Thread Allan Clark
Pavel, et al; The CVS HEAD release passes this test. FYI Allan Pavel Roskin wrote: The existing test in Autoconf will never pick up anything other than a file because in actually scans $PATH. That's why the failure is only observed on the systems with `fc' being a file in $PATH. [...]

Re: rpcgen support for automake

2000-06-01 Thread Allan Clark
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On May 29, 2000, Marek Kowal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an .x file and want to create, using rpcgen, stub files in automake. Later on I want to compile and link part of them into server, and the other part into client. Did anybody excercised this already?