Re: config.cache considered harmful

2000-02-25 Thread Olly Betts
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Roskin writes: Hello, Martin! Let's think about when you would ever want to reuse a cache within a simple single GNU package. I claim you _never_ want to reuse that config.cache file sitting in your foo-1.9 directory. Why are you re-running configure,

Re: config.cache considered harmful

2000-02-25 Thread Olly Betts
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Akim Demaille writes: "Olly" == Olly Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olly It also saves a lot of time if you're using automake and doing Olly work that involves changing your Makefile.am-s. Whenever one is Olly modified, running make will run automake

Re: How to optionally test for a C++ compiler?

2000-02-14 Thread Olly Betts
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Morten Eriksen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olly Betts) writes: Also might it not be better to try each compiler in the list which exists in turn and using the first working one, rather than just trying the first compiler which exists? The problem

./configure --help doesn't mention LIBS

2006-09-18 Thread Olly Betts
This is with autoconf 2.60. After mail from a user who'd tried to specify -llibrary in LDFLAGS I was suprised to realise that the output of ./configure --help doesn't mention LIBS at all. I think it should - while the autoconf info manual documents both LDFLAGS and LIBS and the distinction

stdint.h on IRIX 6.5

2006-10-25 Thread Olly Betts
SGI's compiler on IRIX appears to treat #error as a warning. And IRIX uses #error in stdint.h if it's included in non-C99 mode (either C89 or C++) and doesn't define the types if this is the case. So trying to compile #include stdint.h works as far as configure is concerned, but none of the

Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81

2007-11-26 Thread Olly Betts
On 2007-11-21, Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since there is no reason to prefer [, it is good to keep using test, because of the quoting, and for consistency with all the existing code that does so. Using `[' is better in a particular case in makefiles - there the Solaris VPATH rewriting

Re: Portland Group cpp fails sanity check

2008-01-09 Thread Olly Betts
On 2008-01-09, Brad Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a project that has been mostly switched to use autotools. Seems to work OK with the GNU compilers. When attempting to build on a cluster we have using the Portland Group toolchain, configure bails out saying the preprocessor is

Re: cache problem

2008-10-16 Thread Olly Betts
On 2008-10-16, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you get two concurrent configure scripts updating the same config.cache file? Open terminal (or screen) windows for two subdirectories of the combined tree and in each modify a file which causes configure to be rerun (e.g.

Re: cache problem

2008-10-17 Thread Olly Betts
On 2008-10-17, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Olly Betts on 10/16/2008 7:40 PM: On 2008-10-16, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you get two concurrent configure scripts updating the same config.cache file? Open terminal (or screen) windows for two

Re: GNU autoconf-2.66 released [stable]

2010-07-05 Thread Olly Betts
On 2010-07-02, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg

autoreconf no longer works outside the current directory

2006-05-15 Thread Olly Betts
autoreconf is documented to work outside the current directory, and used to in autoconf 2.59. The patch below fixes that. To reproduce, pick any autoconf-ed project, change to the directory above and run autoreconf PROJECTDIRECTORY. I also notice a worrying mismatch between the comment and the

Re: permissions on autom4te.cache/ ?

2009-11-26 Thread Olly Betts
On 2009-11-24, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: -mkdir $cache, 0755 +mkdir $cache The umask argument to mkdir is required by older versions of Perl. I think it became optional in 5.6. I'm not sure if automake has a minimum Perl version it aims to support (it doesn't seem