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| From: "Thomas Dickey"
| To: "Paul Eggert"
| Cc: "Mathieu Lirzin" , "Eric Blake" ,
"bug-autoconf" , "automake"
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| Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 5:11:43 PM
| Subject: Re: copyright problem with install-
- Original Message -
| From: "Paul Eggert"
| To: "Mathieu Lirzin" , "Eric Blake"
| Cc: bug-autoconf@gnu.org, "automake"
| Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 2:24:32 PM
| Subject: Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite
| Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
|> According to
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 09:13:13AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
...
> Note that the most recent version of 'install-sh' as installed by Automake
> states:
> # Copyright (C) 1994 X Consortium
looking at my collection of untarred X sources, there's an issue with that:
The comment just before reads
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:11:47AM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:05:49PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In this build on Ub
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:05:49PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In this build on Ubuntu x86_64 autoconf is unable to find X11
> libraries:
> https://travis-ci.org/techtonik/PDCurses/builds/101477536
> However, it works with explicit configure option
>
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote:
Hi,
When should AC_CACHE_CHECK be used? Whenever the user uninstalls
something, wouldn't the cache become invalid?
...only if the user happened to uninstall something during the configure
process. After that, AC_CACHE_CHECK is irrelevant.
--
Thomas E.
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote:
Hi,
When should AC_CACHE_CHECK be used? Whenever the user uninstalls
something, wouldn't the cache become invalid?
...only if the user happened to uninstall something during the configure
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2010 17:27:28 Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
K??rlis Repsons wrote:
Hopefully this is sufficiently appropriate place to ask for some help
with making a portable library, which should be usable
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
Kārlis Repsons wrote:
Hello in here...
Hopefully this is sufficiently appropriate place to ask for some help with
making a portable library, which should be usable on both Unixes and
Windows. To be short, I'm still quite confused and would
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Bruno Haible wrote:
Is someone aware of a platform that does not have a /usr/bin/printf or
/bin/printf program?
I am not able to find any. However, the behavior of printf surely changes
over time as standards move forward.
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
I am not able to find any. However, the behavior of printf surely changes
over time as standards move forward.
SunOS didn't have one (I don't see it in the manpages, at any rate).
I did check SunOS 5.6
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, David Byron wrote:
On Thursday, January 21, 2010, John Calcote wrote:
On 1/21/2010 4:38 PM, David Byron wrote:
$ cpp -dM foo.h | grep FOO
#define FOO an_interesting_value
Good idea. Replace cpp -dM with $CPP $CPPFLAGS and I'm getting close. Also
starting to convince
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Rasmus Lerdorf on 11/28/2009 6:42 AM:
Basically the diversions are there to organize the phases of the checks.
From
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Thomas Dickey on 11/28/2009 8:26 AM:
For more recent changes, one would assume you knew offhand the history.
autoconf, and I have no interest in trying to make it work
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Thomas Dickey on 11/28/2009 8:40 AM:
well, in my view, not bothering to research a detail to provide an
accurate reply falls short of professional behavior.
You get the level of support
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Steffen Dettmer wrote on Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:58:30PM CET:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
names='gcc gcc[0-9_-]* cc c89 c99 cgcc clang llvm-gcc sdcc tcc
xlc xlc_r bgxlc icc ecc pgcc pathcc ccc nvcc cl bcc bcc32'
...
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
If I have this in my configure.ac
AC_MSG_CHECKING([if gcc uses the GNU or Sun linker])
then run the configure script, I see:
checking if gcc uses the GNU or Sun linker... checking for a sed that does
not truncate output... /opt/csw/bin/gsed
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Monty Taylor wrote:
The ever helpful setting of -g into CXXFLAGS by AC_PROG_CXX is incorrect
on Sun Studio (IMHO). Currently, the test checks for Sun Studio compiler
and, if so, injects -g. The problem is, -g on Sun Studio means
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
The terrible part about how this mechanism works is that it injects into
CXXFLAGS itself, which means that, without my configure script can't
override that via the setting of AM_CXXFLAGS.
I cannot parse
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com writes:
oh... does emacs show class diagrams reconstructed from source code?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oo-browser/
actually that one looks like just another of the multitude of dead
programs on SourceForge
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com writes:
oh... does emacs show class diagrams reconstructed from source code?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oo-browser/
actually that one looks like just another
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Alberto Luaces wrote:
El Viernes 17 Julio 2009ES 05:25:42 Peter Lee escribió:
From the current thread, this list can be:
[snip]
microsoft visual studio,
No, Peter: Microsoft visual studio won't maintain, import nor export an
autoconf project unless you use it as a
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Peter Lee wrote:
Thank you Alberto Luaces !
To answer my own question:
I would like to ask what IDEs on the web have the ability to
maintain/import/export an antoconf-based project?
I am expecting a list of them, if there are.
From the current thread, this list can
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Peter Lee wrote:
Thank you Thomas Dickey for your contribution to this discussion.
Does anyone know any not-so-pouplar IDEs that have support to autoconf
? beside the currently listed:
kdevelop,
eclipse,
emacs,
vim,
more than one text-editor (you've listed two) does
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com writes:
more than one text-editor (you've listed two) does syntax-highlighting
for autoconf scripts, is scriptable, and can run subprocesses (emacs and
vim aren't IDEs, however - though there are _probably_ scripts for each
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Patrick Welche wrote:
I haven't seen breakages without this patch, but it seems logical to me...
supposedly X11R7 moved everything back into non-specific paths such as
/usr/bin
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, John Calcote wrote:
AC_ARG_VAR([RUBY])# optional - adds RUBY to 'influential variables' in
configure --help
AC_CHECK_PROGS([RUBY], [ruby])
On the systems at hand, ruby is installed with a version number appended,
e.g., ruby1.8
ymmv
--
Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Thomas Moulard wrote:
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote:
This is very doable. In fact, it is how the m4 testsuite allows the user
to specify an alternate $SED program [1]. You can use atlocal.in to
perform initialization of your
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
AC_FUNC_FSEEKO was rewritten for 2.61, but a typo rendered it broken in
that release, so it didn't work again until 2.62.
This is exactly why I hate relying on cache variables. :)
Relying on documented cache variables is fine. But you are correct
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Allan Caffee wrote:
AC_CHECK_LIB (AFAIK) is not intended to handle static libraries. The
reason for this is that compilers handle static libraries quite
differently than shared object libraries. Compilers treat static
libraries as a single big object file to be included
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
compiler, or test-application). Putting them in the generated config.h
doesn't run into that problem.
Only if done properly.
I agree (of course: putting them into the generated config.h is assumed
to be done properly). For the rest - your example
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
automake's toplevel configury applies this trick - It's borrowed from
there ;)
as you see, this is the autoconf list (and I'm uninterested in reporting
bugs in automake - I simply document them and move on).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Steven R. Loomis wrote:
Hello,
autoconf 2.63 has worked well for our project (icu), except for an issue
with a bare carriage return (hereafter '^M') in status.m4 which shows up in
resulting configure scripts. The line in question is:
ac_cr='^M'
If I am not misreading
):
ac_cr=`echo X |tr X '\015'`
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Steven R. Loomis wrote:
Hello,
autoconf 2.63 has worked well for our project (icu), except for an issue
with a bare carriage return (hereafter '^M') in status.m4 which shows up
in resulting configure scripts. The line
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Keith Marshall wrote:
This calling convention issue is specific to MS-Windows, which is a
*very* minor target platform for autoconf; indeed native MS-Windows
doesn't even provide a shell which is capable of running an autoconf
configure script.
not really (I've been bit
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
GPL is often called copyleft. It is copyrighted code which depends on the
real copyright holder to defend it, but assures the rights (to the source
code) of anyone who receives a binary program based on the work. If the
copyright holders for a
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/21/2008 5:34 AM:
Hello all,
As I couldn't find anything on this specific issue, better ask...
After being able to compile my code with help of autotools, now i want to
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
If autoconf detects that you are using gcc, but did not specify CFLAGS,
then it defaults CFLAGS to '-g -O2'. But for other compilers, autoconf
doesn't generally know enough about your compiler to assume any set of
default flags. So I don't know what you
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Thomas Dickey on 9/17/2007 6:23 AM:
It's more than that. Setting the flags to -g is a policy decision made
in the mid-90's based on the claim that setting the optimization flag
in any compiler
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
I'd also like to point out that:
case $host in
*-linux*)
AC_DEFINE(PLATFORM_LINUX, 1, [Define if you are compiling for Linux])
;;
Many variants of these defines are already available in system headers or
predefined by the compiler, so you
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Brian Dessent wrote:
And that aside, there is the NEWS file which pretty much tells you
exactly which macros were added and obsoleted in each autoconf release.
pretty much isn't good enough odds to cross the street against traffic.
(fwiw, autoconf developers aren't
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Duft Markus wrote:
Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:
One more question: is there support for the VMS operating system ?
I think so. (never used it though)
someone gave a pointer to it a while back. It was based on pre-2.0
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
Benoit SIGOURE wrote, quoting Joao Miguel Ferreira:
One more question: is there support for the VMS operating system ?
I think so. (never used it though)
Interesting. How do you run Bourne shell
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, John W. Eaton wrote:
On 21-Jun-2007, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
| You are correct that a strict interpretation of GPL v2 does not allow
| GPLed software to be installed using anything other than an an
| open-sourced installation program which is itself licenced for
|
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello Vincent,
* Vincent Torri wrote on Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:12:45AM CEST:
I have installed autoconf 2.60 on windows with MSYS/MinGW in /usr.
The fact that you have installed software in MSYS /usr makes your
question one that is appropriate on
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
Quoting Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Presumably, AC_PROG_INTLTOOL comes from
GNOME's intltool package, and the MSGFMT setting from some gettext
macros.
*sighs*
When will people understand the concept of pseudo-reserved-namespace?
just for
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:10:22PM +,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
a message of 93 lines which said:
The three specific checks for Solaris find the libraries, but
don't set the appropriate HAVE_function-name variables in
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Vincent Torri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
off topic : is it better to use ${have_ecore_con} or $have_ecore_con ?
It does not really matter, but the former is more robust.
That's contradictory (you should be able to explain it better).
For
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Dalibor Topic wrote:
HP's test drive covers a bunch of platforms. For the rest: qemu, vmware,
aranym, hercules, gxemul, or (least desirable, imho) real hardware.
It's less than it was (about half the platforms went away last fall).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Guido Draheim wrote:
Thomas Dickey schrieb:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Dalibor Topic wrote:
HP's test drive covers a bunch of platforms. For the rest: qemu,
vmware, aranym, hercules, gxemul, or (least desirable, imho) real
hardware.
It's less than it was (about half
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
I encountered no problems installing autoconf 2.61 followed by automake
1.10 into the same --prefix, then using that new prefix for my programs.
That's a lot of words which obscures the fact that you did not respond
to my comment, but simply did a me to
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello Skip,
* Skip Kimpel - Magicgate Software, Inc. wrote on Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at
08:30:53PM CET:
I have version 2.57 installed on my system and I would like to upgrade
to 2.61.. What do I need to do this?
Hmm. You could download
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In contrast, I can plug current ncurses libraries into a system that's
built with ncurses 5.0, and just assume it'll work
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
2.57 was released six years ago. I don't think you can expect much help
four years as of last week.
even 2.50 is only a little over 5 years old.
(however, it is not an unreasonable expectation from people that an
application be evolved in a
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Thomas Dickey wrote on Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:15:12PM CET:
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
2.57 was released six years ago. I don't think you can expect much help
four years as of last week.
agreed that it's been a while
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In contrast, I can plug current ncurses libraries into a system that's
built with ncurses 5.0, and just assume it'll work. That's from 1999.
That's not a useful comparison. How many new features have been
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
If they conform to C89 there should be no problem. In C89, returning
N from 'main' is like 'exit(N)'. This thread is about pre-C89 systems
where the return value from 'main' is mangled
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
Ilya N. Golubev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OS/390 and z/OS
conftests failed using return (SEGV)
So the issue reappears even on some modern systems,
Calling them modern is a bit of a stretch. As I understand it,
these are pre-1989 systems (or is it
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I recall, they implemented a fairly old draft of POSIX threads (and
not the same draft version as DCE or AIX) and with a compiler named
c89 it's a given that they're not up to C99 specs. But still
reasonably
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Thomas Dickey on 10/26/2006 4:07 AM:
I'd use the gnulib stdint module.
certainly (since you're a contributor).
It's booby-trapped regarding license, however.
How so? It is provided LGPL
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Stepan Kasal wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 07:24:47AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
[...], why isn't it documented?
this is the easier of your questions:
The behaviour is not part of the documented interface, because we do not want
to commit it. IOW, we do
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Except now, HAVE_MALLOC, HAVE_REALLOC, and the results of AC_CHECK_DECLS
(HAVE_DECL_*) are special cases. They seem to be documented correctly
as such in the manual, but I think a mention of these in the NEWS
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you would first check for the existence of pkg-config (and complain
if not there) and then use it to get the info needed.
and inevitably (since there's more than one version of pkg-config) start
to accumulate autoconf macros to filter through
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
not required to be a normal function implies that it is
common knowledge that everybody knows you have to roll your
own AC macro?
Have you tried AC_CHECK_DECLS instead? You really are checking
whether sigsetjmp is declared and you can compile with it,
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote, quoting Eric Blake:
Have you tried AC_CHECK_DECLS instead? You really are checking
whether sigsetjmp is declared and you can compile with it, not
whether it is a function and you can link with it.
But supposing that I wanted
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This macro does not work when the headers #define sigsetjmp to
something else.
sigsetjmp is special since it's not required to be a normal function. You
can't use AC_CHECK_FUNCS to check for it.
That's what
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Stepan Kasal wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:14:28PM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
The autoconf tutorial states that either a configure.ac or a
configure.in can be used initially. What is the difference and why
would you use the configure.ac over the
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Andre Caldas wrote:
* The user does not know the version he/she is using is old.
Then the user should just upgrade anyway.
ah. may as well be blunt here: you're stating that the user is ignorant.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Thomas Porschberg wrote:
how can I find out when a certain autoconf macro was
introduced by autoconf ?
Since the autoconf maintainers choose not to provide any relevant
information, your only recourse is to read the CVS for the corresponding
files.
E.g. when I run
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Thomas Porschberg wrote:
Hi Ralf,
thanks for your instructions.
Just a thought:
How about collect this information in a separate file
and extend autoconf with an option --min-required-version
which outputs the minimal required version for putting
in AC_PREREQ ?
That
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Bruce Korb wrote:
Now, I have a curiosity question. Why this (unchanged) construct:
test -n $tmp test -d $tmp
and not just: test -d $tmp
It is sufficient for every shell I know about. Even some pretty old
ones. :)
Some old shells would match an empty $tmp
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Bob Rossi wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:27:21AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
(c) Maybe there now also exists a version control system that allows
to store relative time stamp ordering(?) requirements and reproduce them
upon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
From your example, it appears that you are searching for functions
using their uglified Microsoft names.
That may be true, but other platforms (including Linux) deal in ugly
header file internals. The reason for it with
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
...and unlike Microsoft's headers, MinGW's are not designed to be
maintainable or readable - just random cut/paste excerpts from other
headers.
You are certainly entitled to this opinion, and I respect that, but I
would also respectfully beg to
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Gary Kumfert wrote:
Am I correct that its been two years since the
last autoconf release?
two years, one month and 22 days (looking at file modification times).
Is there going to be another release? Soon?
a release implies that the maintainers will support it
(the
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Keith Marshall wrote:
BTW, I don't think ac_default_prefix is officially documented -- its use can
be discovered by inspecting any generated configure script. Do beware that,
as an undocumented feature, it may not be supported by future autoconf
versions.
Furthermore,
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
KM == Keith MARSHALL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KM When I write my configure.ac, aclocal.m4, or acinclude.m4, *every*
KM macro I use is, from my perspective, an *autoconf* macro. That some
KM of these are called AC_*, AS_*, m4_*, or indeed
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Short story: [ ] are quotation characters within configure.ac files.
That's one reason why many m4 macros use test instead for readability.
The main reason is that some older systems do not have [ as an alias
for test.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Stepan Kasal wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:38:25AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
Is this a bug in autoconf?
yes, this is a bug in autoconf. It is well known, and it'll be fixed in
Autoconf 3, in a distant future...
...perhaps in an alternate universe as well.
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
I have a bunch of macros in GNU make that try to determine whether the
compiler groks ANSI C, like this:
#if defined (__cplusplus) || (defined (__STDC__) __STDC__)
But, that doesn't work on Windows because the Windows compilers do this:
#define
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Stepan Kasal wrote:
Hello Claudio.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:13:24PM -0700, Claudio Fontana wrote:
track it myself but got lost somewhere between 2.13 or
so and 2.49 (are there in-between versions at all? the
gnu ftp repository shown none).
Actually, I'm surprised to
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Ilkka Urtamo wrote:
Sorry if this is too simple, but I do this to only see warnings and
errors:
make /dev/null
Works, but not exactly what I had in mind.
Any other suggestions?
what I do is (via an autoconf macro of course) substitute an echo
statement and a @ at the
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
A few weeks ago I wrote to the Gnu coding standards people, with a
suggestion that there should be a DEPENDENCIES file, so that
It would be nice if autoconf did that for itself. I don't recall a
recent release which satisfied that goal (and
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
A few weeks ago I wrote to the Gnu coding standards people, with a
suggestion that there should be a DEPENDENCIES file, so that
It would be nice if autoconf
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Bruno Haible wrote:
is to make filename sit in a temporary directory under /tmp, not directly
in /tmp ?
For the truly paranoid, even that is not sufficient.
Not bad, but still not perfect: mktemp is not a POSIX standardized
utility, and $RANDOM is bash specific. So what
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
(sorry about the previous - missed keystroke)
Not bad, but still not perfect: mktemp is not a POSIX standardized
utility, and $RANDOM is bash specific. So what do you propose on POSIX
systems without mktemp and bash? Just fall back on the unsecure
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 11:40, Dale Mellor wrote:
For the record...
I recieved about half a dozen responses to this and the overriding
message is: config.h is worse than useless for packages which install
libraries and public header files, so
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 11:40, Dale Mellor wrote:
For the record...
I recieved about half a dozen responses to this and the overriding
message is: config.h is worse than useless for packages which install
libraries and public header files, so
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Noah Misch wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:37:25AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
On the compilers in question, what value does 1/0 return? Perhaps we
can make use of that somehow.
On the Compaq CC, the program ``int main() { int c = 1/0; printf(%d\n, c); }''
prints
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Noah Misch wrote:
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 06:00:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Noah Misch wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:37:25AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
On the compilers in question, what value does 1/0 return? Perhaps we
can make
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:40:04PM -0700,
John Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
a message of 21 lines which said:
Hello, I am currently using ac_arg_enable to define several
--enable-feature options. However, if a user were to specify an
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, John Ling wrote:
As I do not use multiple packages, from my point of view this is a very
bad behaviour. I agree that it would be nice to have the option to turn
on strict checking of such of --enable-FEATURE.
Guess I'll have to live with this.
probably right (since
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Vincent Torri wrote:
The best would be to add an argument to configure script, so that i can
choose one of the two kinds of display.
As long as abreviated display doesn't become the default, this seems
ok to me. I absolutely
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote:
because the result of the first test is cached. How can I tell
autoconf to forget the result of the first test before doing it
the second time?
If you look in config.status you will see the form that
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
values take. You can then unset the cache variable that autoconf uses
before trying again. Here is some example code taken from one of my
configure scripts:
hmm - while I note that support
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
A user was able to compile sed 4.0e on forty-odd platforms, including
alphas
forty-odd flavors of Linux?
Of course not since I mentioned the Digital and Sun native compilers (and
shells). Do you say this because you have negative reports
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
Anthony N. Frasso wrote:
base# make
Making all in bin
rm -f autom4te autom4te.tmp
Using $ in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (line 484 of
Makefile)
*** Error code 1
GNU software usually requires GNU make. If you don't
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Bob Proulx wrote:
Priit Voolaid wrote:
prefix= --prefix/opt
The PREFIX is defined as --prefix/opt instead /opt. Why is that?
Where can i search for source of this problem?
I have tryed, many times, with diffrenet packages and always with same
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
2000-10-12 Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* tests/mktests.sh: Backslash the quote in the heredocs to help
syntax highlighting tools.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_UPDATE): Give a better AT_SETUP
title.
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
* Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-24 07:44]:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
if test -n $ac_init_help; then
m4_ifset([AC_PACKAGE_STRING],
[ case $ac_init_help in
short | recursive ) echo Configuration
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