Re: autoconf macros, portable arithmetic

2005-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
1.3.23 that I need to compare to some other number like 1.3.20. Currently, I split at the dots and then recombine as 100*major + 1000*minor + subminor, then I can compare with 'test'. But how to do that in a portable way? Mark - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

FYI: cygwin /bin/sh has changed

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
the default /bin/sh == bash to replace it with ash. It's been nice using ash to ferret out non-portable shell constructs, but it will also be nice to worry about one less non-portable shell. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http

bash bug in $()

2005-12-28 Thread Eric Blake
, but are misparsed by several shells: Required: $ echo $( cat /eof a here-doc with ) eof ) a here-doc with ) $ echo $( echo abc # a comment with ) ) abc $ bash: $ echo $( cat /eof a here-doc with ) a here-doc with $ echo $( echo abc # a comment with ) ) abc ) $ -- Eric Blake

Re: warning in AC_CHECK_DECL

2006-02-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [redirecting from autoconf-patches] According to Eric Blake on 2/16/2006 12:36 PM: Without this patch, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R (and anything else that uses AC_CHECK_DECL) gets set incorrectly when configuring with gcc and CFLAGS='-Wall -Werror

Fwd: for VAR; do does not work any more on some platforms

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
# If the previous option needs an argument, assign it. if test -n $ac_prev; then eval $ac_prev=\$ac_option ac_prev= continue fi ac_optarg=`expr x$ac_option : 'x[^=]*=\(.*\)'` - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Changing PACKAGE_BUGREPORT?

2006-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
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Re: Changing PACKAGE_BUGREPORT?

2006-04-04 Thread Eric Blake
be reproduced on Linux or other platforms. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59c available

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Blake
-letter extensions were for CVS versions, and the even-letter extensions are for alpha releases. Or is that only libtool following that convention? At any rate, I will start testing this on the platforms available to me. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

autoconf vs. stdin [was: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch]

2006-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
it is smarter to not document that as a valid usage pattern. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

AC_CHECK_FUNCS vs. undeclared entry points

2006-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
; and I suppose that in the opposite case, a declaration can exist without linkage if it is a macro. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: autoconf test failures - how to react?

2006-05-08 Thread Eric Blake
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libtool --ltdl vs. autoreconf

2006-05-09 Thread Eric Blake
of autoreconf. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: expected Autoconf 2.59 - 2.60 compatibility?

2006-05-09 Thread Eric Blake
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Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-09 Thread Eric Blake
is particularly picky about requiring extensions. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

m4_wrap behavior

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Blake
([m4wrap]m4wrap_, defn([m4wrap]m4wrap_)[$1])], [_m4wrap([define([m4wrap_], incr(m4wrap_))m4wrap]m4wrap_)dnl define([m4wrap]m4wrap_, [$1])])])dnl -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: m4_wrap behavior

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Blake
2.61). Borrowing from my earlier mail in this thread: 2006-06-13 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_wrap_level): New helper macro. (m4_wrap): Reimplement to guarantee LIFO order, even if m4wrap is in POSIX-specified FIFO order. * doc

Re: m4_wrap behavior

2006-06-15 Thread Eric Blake
, that guarantees LIFO order in m4_wrap regardless of m4wrap direction; and it is just a minor tweak to that patch to instead guarantee FIFO order. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-06/msg00060.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: m4_wrap behavior

2006-06-15 Thread Eric Blake
definition of m4_wrap, with less overhead per use of m4_wrap than my earlier patch (no ChangeLog provided, as this is just an idea for now). -- Eric Blake Index: lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 === RCS file: /sources/autoconf/autoconf/lib

testsuite.dir location

2006-06-16 Thread Eric Blake
testsuite to create testsuite.log in the tests subdirectory of the build dir. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: testsuite.dir location

2006-06-16 Thread Eric Blake
feature and far enough from a critical bug that we can postpone this two weeks. Agreed. Which means this autoconf patch is also a candidate for post-2.60 (especially since I have not yet proven that it is portable): 2006-06-16 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * doc/autoconf.texi (Special

Re: m4-1.4.4b problems

2006-06-22 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: $ automake-1.9 --gnits tests/Makefile NONE:0: /packages/gnu/bin/m4: `m4_symbols' from frozen file not found in builtin table! autom4te: /packages/gnu/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 automake-1.9: autoconf failed with exit status: 1 make

Re: which shell is running configure?

2006-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
situation? The autoconf manual discusses the use of CONFIG_SHELL. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Autoconf 2.60 released

2006-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
around? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: OS/2 and stdarg module

2006-07-01 Thread Eric Blake
]) that activates the definition. Meanwhile, is it worth patching autoconf/lib/autoheader.m4 to complain when $2 of AH_VERBATIM is empty, so this mistake is less likely to occur in the future? I'm installing this into gnulib: 2006-07-01 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * stdarg.m4 (gl_STDARG_H

recommend m4 1.4.5

2006-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
to autotools-announce or info-gnu (I'm not sure who moderates them, or if my post was rejected or still in the queue), but a copy of the release announcement is here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-discuss/2006-07/msg3.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

portability of 'kill -name'?

2006-07-19 Thread Eric Blake
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Re: AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sigsetjmp)

2006-07-27 Thread Eric Blake
can link with it. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: Dependency of Makefile.in is not awared of

2006-07-27 Thread Eric Blake
on the wrong list. Try configuring with --enable-maintainer-mode to see if it changes things. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sigsetjmp)

2006-07-28 Thread Eric Blake
in your program. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

autotest compilation mode marker

2006-07-28 Thread Eric Blake
with the AT_CHECK; and output a compilation line directive that will work in spite of testsuite log being generated in a different directory than the .at file. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sigsetjmp)

2006-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
the full check support for all four possible cases: declared and working mistakenly declared but not implemented linkable but undeclared completely missing -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

RFC: m4 2.0 --prepend-include option

2006-08-23 Thread Eric Blake
in the GNU version thanks to the implicit -G. This patch also fixes 'm4 --help --version' to display help, consistent with coreutils, rather than its current behavior of showing the version. 2006-08-23 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/main.c (long_options, main): Add --prepend-include

multidigit arguments [was: RFC: m4 2.0 --prepend-include option]

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Blake
an aardvark regarding whether blind macros are permissible. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: fix gl_LOCK constraints

2006-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
if it detected the presence of a gnulib-cache.m4 in the project's m4 directory. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment

Re: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF failing on undefined HAVE_STDINT_H with -Werror

2006-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
not It looks like you got this logic backwards in the update. If all four test cases compile, we are now defining ac_cv_header_stat_broken to yes. I'm checking in this patch, hopefully obvious: 2006-08-28 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STAT): Fix logic

ideas on multiple LIBOBJS support

2006-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
the replacement into the correct library, and automake can be taught to trace which replacement files live in lib1 vs. lib2 for building the correct dependency trees for the two libraries. Any comments before I try implementing something along these lines? -- Eric Blake

Re: Bug#385720: m4: INTERNAL ERROR: recursive push_string (fwd)

2006-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
issue, I totally agree that this is not good practice for GNU software. In the meantime, perhaps Autoconf should document that all autom4te input files should always end in newline. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Question regarding sscanf() vs. off_t and similar

2006-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
is a convenient way of printing any integer of unknown width: char buf[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)]; sprintf(%s %s, umaxtostr(ino, buf), name); - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin

Re: Question regarding sscanf() vs. off_t and similar

2006-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ben Pfaff on 9/14/2006 10:19 AM: Philipp Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 14 September 2006 14:49 Eric Blake wrote: Gnulib provides umaxtostr.c, which is a convenient way of printing any integer of unknown width: char

RFC: rename symbols to m4symbols

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Blake
, is it worth putting the macros in the load module in a proper namespace? modules, load, and unload are all English words, but at least with CVS m4, you have to explicitly request -m load at the command line to enable them. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: both native and cross in the same build directory

2006-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
, and build native in one subdirectory and cross in another. Multiple builds in the same directory generally require a 'make distclean' in between the builds, because of the risks of collisions. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: defining configure options...

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
these two families of options easy to support, but does not really provide hooks for arbitrary other options. This topic has come up on the list before, so searching the archives may shed some more light on this topic. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: autoreconf not passing -I option to aclocal

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFG8Yw84KuGfSFAYARAnjdAJsEP

Re: autoreconf not passing -I option to aclocal

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
of the wrapper script? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Inconsistency w.r.t. defining the same symbol more than once

2006-10-09 Thread Eric Blake
has demonstrated someone who cares about the results. In free software, if you have an itch, provide a patch that scratches that itch. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: stdint.h on IRIX 6.5

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
sources by using it. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: stdint.h on IRIX 6.5

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
use 'gnulib-tool --lgpl --import modules', gnulib-tool either rewrites the files to have an LGPL header as part of copying them from gnulib to your project directory, or fails because the modules you requested were not licensed under LGPL. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

m4_for bug?

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Blake
resulted in an error due to trying to treat [[a]] as the step size with an empty expression, rather than realizing that the step size was omitted. Is it worth my time providing a patch for this? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: how to add a library if it exists

2006-11-06 Thread Eric Blake
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GNU M4 1.4.8 released

2006-11-21 Thread Eric Blake
' and any other information that might be useful in resolving the issue. - -- Eric Blake -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFYoWs84KuGfSFAYARAu

Re: Help with rewriting compile rules.

2006-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
problem? I'm new to this. Any help is appreciated. I would write a script that does the preprocessing and calls mytool, put that on my path, then invoke ./configure CC=myscript. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: cygwin -mno-cygwin AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2006-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
be enough for autoconf to try harder for discovering how AC_CHECK_SIZEOF should behave without tripping up on line endings (and if that is not the case, maybe we should consider patching autoconf to make it happen that way). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: Problem using autoreconf

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
of autoconf is used. These are older releases. Does the problem still exist if you upgrade to autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: cygwin -mno-cygwin AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
/zero - there are a number of unportable mmap checking macros out there in the world, that should be improved to not even attempt the AC_CHECK_FILE when cross-compiling. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: cygwin -mno-cygwin AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
--host=i686-pc-mingw32 \ CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' CXX='g++ -mno-cygwin' - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Usage of AS_FOR_TARGET

2006-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
reserved namespace since it is in heavy use in real-world configure scripts? -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: Usage of AS_FOR_TARGET

2006-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 12/8/2006 5:31 PM: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.13 to 2.59), but is it worth excluding AS_FOR_TARGET from the Autoscan reserved namespace since it is in heavy use in real-world configure scripts? I assume

Re: problem with cached values

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
is remembering the results of the outer invocation, because AC_CHECK_* is given the same parameters between the two runs. I'm not sure how I would improve things, but you are right that calling your current macro in a nested manner runs afoul of caching rules. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric

Re: help a newbie?

2007-01-15 Thread Eric Blake
that you use GNU M4 1.4 or later; other vendor's m4 implementations, as well as GNU M4 1.3 or earlier, are insufficient. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

2007-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/18/2007 10:35 AM: [ Can we limit this to, say, the m4-discuss and autoconf lists? ] Sure. Hi Eric, Hi Ralf, and thanks for the feedback, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 03:50:09PM CET: [...] So

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

2007-01-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 1/19/2007 7:24 AM: According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/18/2007 10:35 AM: [ Can we limit this to, say, the m4-discuss and autoconf lists? ] Actually, this particular mail can probably stay on just autoconf-patches

Re: Problems upgrading

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Blake
installing autoconf 2.61 followed by automake 1.10 into the same --prefix, then using that new prefix for my programs. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: any reason not to enforce the build requirement: m4 = 1.4.4 ?

2007-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

m4sugar doc example [Was: enforcing the use of string.h related modules]

2007-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
/understand such a step-by-step analysis once in one's life, if one wants to understand the macros. It is instructive! Bruno - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public

Re: m4sugar doc example

2007-02-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 2/2/2007 1:28 PM: I'm forwarding this mail to the autoconf list to remind me to take time in the near future to turn it into a good texinfo flow. Bruno suggested offlist that perhaps this belongs better in the M4 manual

Re: why not check $PATH for m4?

2007-02-04 Thread Eric Blake
autoconf and automake. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: why not check $PATH for m4?

2007-02-05 Thread Eric Blake
(who graciously lets me spend my fun time on open source software). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment

Re: more m4 underquotations

2007-02-14 Thread Eric Blake
-based keyboards. If we're going to change the default quote sequence, at least pick one based on multi-character ASCII. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

RE: help linking shared libraries / rpath

2007-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
autoconf 2.62) requires m4 1.4.5 or better (all prior versions have a bug that have caused known trip-ups in debugging packages that use gettext). Look at autconf/m4/m4.m4 for the way to test for this bug. -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list

Re: GNU M4 1.4.8b released (beta release)

2007-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
to declare that there is not a usable 'long long int' type if no corresponding unsigned long long type exists? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: GNU M4 1.4.8b released (beta release)

2007-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 3/10/2007 4:12 PM: while), I still think that if printf.c is going to *assume* unsigned if long long exists, then config.h really ought to make this safe, say by having something like this in config.h.in: #if defined

Re: Why if test xSTRING1= xSTRING2 (the 'x') ?

2007-03-26 Thread Eric Blake
, while 'test ( = )' is true. See also the manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Limitations-of-Builtins.html#Limitations-of-Builtins - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

2007-04-02 Thread Eric Blake
behavior. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Writing New Macros

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Writing New Macros

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
. The moral of the story is: _Don't use macros in the _AC* namespace if you are not writing a patch for Autoconf itself!!!_ - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public

Re: Writing New Macros

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/10/2007 1:19 PM: calls to the reserved _AC namespace would appear in these custom macros. Nothing wrong with that right? :P There is indeed something wrong with it. What does it take to convince people

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

2007-04-12 Thread Eric Blake
, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

2007-04-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 10:43 AM: On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 05:12 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 4:46 AM: To me this reads as: MinGW and Cygwin's test

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

2007-04-12 Thread Eric Blake
as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHnL884KuGfSFAYARAhpbAKDTxCidNQHR

Re: Aw: Re: Supressing output from AC_CHECK_DECL

2007-05-08 Thread Eric Blake
test using AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is more robust, because it sticks to documented interfaces. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: AC_TYPE_UINT8_T and co

2007-05-28 Thread Eric Blake
trick to make syntax highlighting detect balanced (), in spite of the unbalanced ) of portable case statements. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: automatic update Makefile.am - Makefile.in - Makefile no longer working

2007-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
to regenerate the build system? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Binary Version for Mac OS X?

2007-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Whys is `make dist` packaging gmo files?

2007-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
doesn't delete the .gmo files. How about 'make distclean'? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: test in a m4 macro and variable created from pushdef

2007-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
, so this pattern should do it: AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_DRIVER_[]UP, test x${use_[]DOWN} = xyes]) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: test in a m4 macro and variable created from pushdef

2007-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
, but with the potential for m4 syntax confusion if it contains anything in the character class [][,()]. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: documentation of autoconf macros

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
file tries to do this. And ultimately, the ChangeLog file does this. But reconstructing this information into the manual would be a worthwhile patch, if someone would like to tackle that project. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: documentation of autoconf macros

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
, rather than dwell on negative attitudes. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: AC_PATH_PROG or m4 bug

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Blake
for this issue, the out-of-date m4 is most likely the culprit. Once I get some more free time, I will try to further analyze the additional information you provided, if no one else beats me to the task. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
, since it has already been determined that, without the aid of exception clauses, GPLv2 and GPLv3 are legally incompatible. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public

Re: configure is not checking everything

2007-09-06 Thread Eric Blake
default (although perhaps pessimistic) fallbacks that work if none of your hard-coded choices occur. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: FYI webpage update

2007-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
of the official translations area, and hopefully makes it more obvious that the 'alternate translations' are out of date, but still fun to read. 2007-09-07 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * autoconf.html: Move link to alternate `translation' pages out of translations

Re: FYI webpage update

2007-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Proulx on 9/7/2007 5:24 PM: Eric Blake wrote: Here's what I'm checking in. It keeps the links, but moves it out of the official translations area, and hopefully makes it more obvious that the 'alternate translations' are out

Re: changing the default compilers for autoconf

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
be the best place to add the stuff...? The more appropriate place is adding a config.site file, rather than modifying any .m4 files. http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Site-Defaults.html#Site-Defaults - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: error autoconf

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5

Re: FYI: fix-bootstrap-translation-download-on-darwin

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
clause, where darwin awk (maybe others too, I haven't looked elsewhere) discards it. Cheers, Gary - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

conversion to git

2007-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
for a given $uid is as easy as 'git log --pretty=medium | grep -A1 $uid | head -n2'. Try finding the same information quickly with CVS.] -- Eric Blake ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: changing the default compilers for autoconf

2007-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
compiler to assume any set of default flags. So I don't know what you are worried about. Beyond that, autoconf is open source, so feel free to take a look at the output it generates to make sure of how autoconf was behaving. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: changing the default compilers for autoconf

2007-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
that it is still configurable enough that you do not feel locked into that default. And if there is something we could do to make the documentation more clear on this point, again, discussion or patches are welcome. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL

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