Re: dynamic linker (Win32)

2006-05-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Florian, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:00:51AM CEST: I recently stumbled some weird behaviour I'd like to report. Our projects here use libtool/g++ to build DLLs which works fine (now); but when configuring I get This is a Libtool issue. Please print the Libtool

Re: dynamic linker (Win32)

2006-05-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Florian Schricker wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:11:50PM CEST: Von: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our projects here use libtool/g++ to build DLLs which works fine (now); ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4e (1.1162 2002/11/22 22:36:25) (which is rather old, isn't it? But upgrading

Re: Suggestion: AC_DEFINE - m4_pattern_allow

2006-05-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, Akim, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:07:36PM CEST: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:04:00PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: I have this package at hand, say FooBar, which installs a prefixed form of config.h. Its own macros are, of course, named FB_*, which is

Re: macro reuse

2006-05-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Keith MARSHALL wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 05:48:48PM CEST: Stepan Kasal wrote, quoting Thomas Porschberg: My idea was to call AC_REQUIRE([M1([$version_number])]) but it does not work. it would help if you posted some example code. Preferably a pointer to a small self-contained

Re: AC_LINK_IFELSE sub-dependency

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Michael, * Michael B Allen wrote on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:33:02AM CEST: If I have a check for libfoo and it depends on forkpty how do I conditionally include -lutil in the test? Is there a builtin mechanism for handling this? Yes. Something like this: my_LIBS=$LIBS LIBS=-lutil $LIBS

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 44 45 47 49 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 90 92 93 94 99 100 103 105 106 107 108 112 113 114 116 118 120 121 123 124 125

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, Thanks for the report. * Holly Marie Schöne wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:17:09PM CEST: I just tried to install autoconf on my machine and got the following: These tests all fail because they don't find a C compiler. If you don't have a C compiler, please install one. Autoconf

Re: sed escaping question

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:42:34PM CEST: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:08:43PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Conversely to the second half of the paragraph, can we be certain that sed 's|a\|b||' does what I think it should do, namely remove a literal

Re: Autoconf disabling shared

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paulo, * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:32:46PM CEST: I'm trying to use libtool so that it links all libraries as static so I added to configure.ac: AC_DISABLE_SHARED before AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and I added the libraries (*.la files) I wanted to link in Makefile.am LDADD.

Re: bison generated files

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Rossi wrote on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:51:01AM CEST: Does 'make dist' automatically include them in the distro though? Yes. info Automake Yacc and Lex Cheers, Ralf ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org

Re: macro reuse

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Thomas, * Thomas Porschberg wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:56:25PM CEST: 1. I can pass a directory parameter to all three macros at configure time (the root dir of boost). When I call e.g. ./configure --with-boost-date-time=/usr/local How could I then pass /usr/local/ to AX_BOOST_BASE

Re: Conditional Configuration

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paulo, * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:06:29PM CEST: I have defined a feature as follows in configure.ac: AC_ARG_ENABLE([static-modules], AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-static-modules], [link dynamic modules with static linkage (default is NO)]), enable_static_modules=yes,

Re: Conditional Configuration

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paulo, * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:23:55PM CEST: I have: if test ${enable_static_modules} = no; then AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN fi AC_PROG_LIBTOOL And then during configure: ./configure: line 3871: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' ./configure: line 3871: `fi'

Re: libtool --ltdl vs. autoreconf

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:04:23PM CEST: As promised here, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2006-05/msg5.html, I noticed that m4 bootstrap invokes libtoolize --ltdl prior to autoreconf, which reinvokes libtoolize without --ltdl. This seems

Re: make distcheck with a cross compiler

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Douglas, * Douglas Phillipson wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:48:49PM CEST: I'm new to autoconf, I'll let you know that right up front. It's a wonderful build system and I can see it's going to save me tons of time and effort. I've built my first project with it and it works fine, even

Re: Conditional Configuration

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paulo J. Matos wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:02:26PM CEST: On 25/05/06, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if test ${enable_static_modules} = no; then : AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN fi Nice. :-) AS_IF([test ${enable_static_modules} = no], [: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN]) Works for some reason

weird segfault with ksh

2006-05-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
There is (at least) one bug in ksh which seems difficult to localize. 1) configuring coreutils-5.96 on Solaris 2.6 chooses /bin/ksh as shell. The configure script, invoked like ../coreutils-5.96/configure -C segfaults for me at the very end: | config.status: creating po/Makefile |

Re: coreutils-5.96 doesn't build (out of the box)

2006-05-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
config.status: executing depfiles commands ./config.status: ./.deps/__fpending.Po: No such file or directory Confirmed. I see this on AIX with its grep. Patch against Automake coming up in another mail. Cheers, Ralf ___ Autoconf mailing list

Re: Suggestion: AC_DEFINE - m4_pattern_allow

2006-05-31 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Akim, * Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:26:17PM CEST: Akim == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time ago I sent this message for which I had no answer. I suggest that the AC_DEFINE family explicitly allow its $1. Not true, your request has been dealt with:

Re: Suggestion: AC_DEFINE - m4_pattern_allow

2006-06-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stepan, Akim, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:07:48PM CEST: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:56:41PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: However my point about the name of the condition remains. AC_SUBST covers only the *_TRUE and *_FALSE part. Then I second Ralf's and

GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d is now available. This is a beta release, intended to be largely identical to 2.60, to be released very soon, if no unexpected issues turn up. So test it now, use it with your code, and report any remaining issues, please! The important changes since 2.59c are

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ralf, * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:44:00AM CEST: On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:15 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d is now available. This is a beta release, intended to be largely identical to 2.60, to be released very soon

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ralf, * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:07:15AM CEST: On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:29 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: We are seriously talking past each other. If you are using Automake, the changed directory variables (assuming you are referring to them) will be picked

Re: AC_FUNC_ALLOCA generates warning (problem with -Werror)

2006-06-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 04:01:24AM CEST: Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This generates a warning that the variable p is never used. This is a problem when you run configure with CFLAG=-Werror. Compilation of the above code will fail. Can you please give more

Re: including files in configure.in

2006-06-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Theodore, Micah, * Micah J. Cowan wrote on Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:48:59AM CEST: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:54:35PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 01:31:43PM -0700, Theodore Sternberg wrote: Is there a way to include external files in configure.in? In the

Re: bug while installing package

2006-06-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Anil, Thanks for reporting this. * Anil Dongare wrote on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:01:24PM CEST: While Installing mcrypt package, i got following warning. == configure: WARNING: mcrypt.h: accepted by the compiler,

recommendation for GNU make (was: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available)

2006-06-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Paul, Ralf, * Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:18:55AM CEST: Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sub-sentence I consider to be wrong is this: INSTALL now suggests VPATH builds (e.g., sh ../srcdir/configure) only if you use GNU make. This is merely a

possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL (was: (no subject))

2006-06-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Harlan, * Harlan Stenn wrote on Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:41:34PM CEST: autoconf 2.59 and libtool 1.5.6. I'm seeing this on a bunch of different systems autoreconf259: configure.ac: not using Libtool configure.ac:10: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL If this

Re: Suggestion: AC_DEFINE - m4_pattern_allow

2006-06-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Akim, * Akim Demaille wrote on Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:08:23PM CEST: Ralf == Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:26:17PM CEST: Akim == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time ago I sent this message for which I

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stepan, Akim, Stepan, please keep Akim in Cc:. * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:24:05PM CEST: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:14:15PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: I would like to suggest embedding a probe in Autoconf's test suite to check whether `!' (not as an argument to

Re: function portability documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:13:52PM CEST: Inspired by Paul Eggert's new chapter about Portable C and C++ Programming, I went out and collected portability notes and pitfall reminders for over 200 among the 1116 POSIX functions. (Attached.) Is an updated

Re: Comma in AS_HELP_STRING string

2006-06-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stepan, Jerry, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:46:37AM CEST: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:36:40PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:17:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS_HELP_STRING([--with-wx=opt1,opt2], [specify 2 options separated by

Re: m4_wrap behavior

2006-06-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:46:31PM CEST: The obvious consequence is that Autoconf = 2.60 won't work with GNU m4 2.0. Luckily, there is no risk of installing a broken version of autoconf; the build will break, since autoconf.as is a m4sh script. This is

Re: Comma in AS_HELP_STRING string

2006-06-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Keith, * Keith Marshall wrote on Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:48:33AM CEST: While we're on the subject of bugs in AS_HELP_STRING, will your proposed patch also address the premature folding of its second argument, if it happens to contain quadrigraphs? This has already been fixed in 2.59c.

Re: testsuite.dir location

2006-06-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:16:05PM CEST: Is it intentional that running testsuite outputs testsuite.log and testsuite.dir in $PWD? Yes. That's what a hundred useful programs (cc, for example) do by default with output. (Programs writing to `dirname

Re: Mac OS X build

2006-06-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Daniel, * Daniel Corbe wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:38:57PM CEST: I'm having an issue using autoconf with most (all) software packages on Mac OS X. When I run autoconf in most instances (in this case libtool) I get errors like: For libtool, you should use the bootstrap script

Re: PKG_CHECK_MODULES: bug or I don't know something?

2006-06-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Evgeniy, * Evgeniy Dushistov wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 05:42:28PM CEST: if one_option; then ... PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APP, lib_a) ... elif another_option; then ... PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APP, lib_b) ... else ... PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APP, lib_a) ... fi only first PKG_CHECK_MODULES

Re: PKG_CHECK_MODULES: bug or I don't know something?

2006-06-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Evgeniy Dushistov wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:55:54PM CEST: I already fix this in such ugly way if LIB=lib_a elif LIB=lib_b else fi PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APP, $LIB) This post just attempt to understand who's responsible for this. Reading info Autoconf Prerequisite Macros

older mailing list archives

2006-06-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I noticed that cygwin.com has archives of the Autoconf mailing lists going back farther than the lists.gnu.org archives currently do: http://cygwin.com/ml/autoconf/ http://cygwin.com/ml/bug-autoconf/ http://cygwin.com/ml/autoconf-patches/ http://cygwin.com/ml/autoconf-cvs/ They are not

Re: [PATCH] Make AC_COMPUTE_INT public

2006-06-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paolo, * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:59:53PM CEST: after Autoconf-2.60... Then you will hate me for this patch, which I promised to send at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-01/msg00110.html (yes, five months ago). It makes AC_COMPUTE_INT public.

Re: Autoconf 2.60 released

2006-06-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:13:44PM CEST: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone planning on updating http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/index.html Yes, Ralf has volunteered to do that. But it won't happen before Sunday at the earliest... Cheers,

Re: configure can't find library on some platforms

2006-07-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Zac, * Zac Hansen wrote on Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:37:16AM CEST: I build mylib1 and do a make install. Then, I do a configure in mylib2 and on some platforms it can't find main in mylib1. Try ./configure LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib Platforms that work: FC4, OS X 10.4 Platforms

Re: nonstandard library directories

2006-07-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Harlan Stenn wrote on Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:53:05PM CEST: ./configure CFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib -lintl CXXFLAGS=-I/ sw/include Do you really need to set CPPFLAGS=$CFLAGS? I think that is not needed. If it's a -I, it should be in CPPFLAGS and not CFLAGS. And

Re: netinet headers under OS X

2006-07-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Oliver, Thanks for the bug report. * Oliver Kennedy wrote on Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:26:32PM CEST: Compiling zebra-0.94 under OS X 10.4.6, the following excerpt happened. As requested, I'm reporting the error. checking netinet/in_var.h usability... no checking netinet/in_var.h

Re: which shell is running configure?

2006-07-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Sam, * Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 06:17:40PM CEST: I encountered the following problem: an autoconf test that checks whether `test' supports `-nt' passes, but when make tries to use test -nt in Makefile, it fails. this appeared to suggest that configure and make were

Re: CC=cc ./configure or ./configure CC=cc

2006-08-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:32:55PM CEST: What does it need to persuade you to move to recommend ./configure CC=cc [...] instead of the other way round? mailing lists still get bug reports which are due to Hmm, there are four reasons why I still

Re: CC=cc ./configure or ./configure CC=cc

2006-08-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ed Hartnett wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:56:31PM CEST: Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) If ./configure CC=cc is supported, people may easily think the same holds for make. Such as make CC=cc or make install prefix=/opt/gnu. But these are unsupported (the first

Re: CC=cc ./configure or ./configure CC=cc

2006-08-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:32:55PM CEST: 3) A recommendation to use VAR=value in the configure command line will not work with some 'configure' scripts that comply to GNU standards but are not generated by autoconf. For example, GNU clisp's toplevel

Re: CC=cc ./configure or ./configure CC=cc

2006-08-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:50:17PM CEST: $ ./config.status --help [...] Should better say: -V, --versionprint version number and configuration settings, then exit Fixed as follows. Thanks for reporting. Cheers, Ralf * lib/autoconf/status.m4

Re: config.guess comments from our sysadmins

2006-08-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello John, Apologies for the delay, and thanks for your bug report on config.guess. * John Wohlbier wrote on Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:12:57PM CEST: Below are comments from a sysadmin as to why config.guess is failing for me. Below that is the original problem statement, and below that is the

Re: config.guess comments from our sysadmins

2006-08-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ed, Let's keep the mailing list in Cc:, you ask important questions. * Ed Hartnett wrote on Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:22:40PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * John Wohlbier wrote on Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:12:57PM CEST: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/~checkout

Re: config.guess comments from our sysadmins

2006-08-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ config.guess and config.sub ] * Ed Hartnett wrote on Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:19:29PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's safe to just replace the two files with newer versions; I think you should keep the two in sync though. OK. Should I replace them in every project

Re: CC=cc ./configure or ./configure CC=cc

2006-08-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, Let's move the GCS-related part of this discussion to bug-gnulib. * Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:32:55PM CEST: 3) A recommendation to use VAR=value in the configure command line will not work with some 'configure' scripts that comply to GNU standards but

Re: m4 macro default behavior

2006-08-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Thomas, Sorry for the delay. * Thomas Porschberg wrote on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:38:25AM CEST: I wrote some m4 macros for the boost libraries(see http://randspringer.de/boost/index.html). ATM the default behavior is that the user has to give --with-boost,

#if vs. #ifdef -- again (was: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF failing on undefined HAVE_STDINT_H with -Werror)

2006-08-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stepan, David, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:00:12PM CEST: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:42:28PM -0400, David Fang wrote: After all, isn't this the convention used in producing config.h and using it for conditional #includes? Though I originally thought that `#ifdef'

Re: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF failing on undefined HAVE_STDINT_H with -Werror

2006-08-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Paul, David, * Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 06:29:57PM CEST: Thanks for reporting this; I didn't realize it was a regression. I still don't understand why this is a regression (the FreeBSD 5.4 I have access to has stdint.h). -Wundef is a bit controversial, but it's easy for

Re: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF failing on undefined HAVE_STDINT_H with -Werror

2006-08-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* David Fang wrote on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:15:09AM CEST: Thanks for reporting this; I didn't realize it was a regression. -Wundef is a bit controversial, but it's easy for Autoconf to support its use for programmers that prefer it, so I installed the following patch. In practice, I

Re: Testing for compiler capabilities

2006-08-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jan, David, * David Fang wrote on Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:11:28PM CEST: Then the test is even simpler: compile an empty or trivial source file with the same m4 test and replace -Werror with -fvisibility=hidden. This is how I test for individual command-line options, where no

Re: Autoconf fix Darwin/MacOS X Fortran

2006-08-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bill, * Bill Northcott wrote on Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:59:40AM CEST: In lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (v2.60 and cvs) there is a macro _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS which defines FLIBS for linking Fortran code. Darwin/MacOS X also include elements of the C library in libgcc_s.dylib and

Re: Autoconf fix Darwin/MacOS X Fortran

2006-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Peter, Bill, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:47:04PM CEST: On Aug 24, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Bill Northcott wrote on Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:59:40AM CEST: _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS [... and -lgcc_s] Neither is necessary because ld automatically

Re: AC_PATH_XTRA and -rpath

2006-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Sorry for reviving a slightly old thread... * Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:41:13PM CEST: Patrick Welche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so the -R made it, and all is well :-) I can't check the opposite though: do systems that don't want rpath get one now? Yes, they

Re: conftest files

2006-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
This thread seems to have died down without conclusion. Christopher had a problem with configure link test file leftovers spoiling following tests, with some PGI compiler: * Christopher Hulbert wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:19:38PM CEST: On 8/13/06, Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: conftest files

2006-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Argh. I sent an unfinished message. Sorry! Christopher, please check whether the patch by Stepan: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-08/msg00063.html fixes your issue. Also, please describe how we could reproduce the issue. Cheers, Ralf

Re: Autoconf fix Darwin/MacOS X Fortran

2006-08-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:16:19PM CEST: I don't believe that there is a case in libtool where darwin uses - nostdlib. If there is such a case that I missed please let me know and I will fix it :-). Ah, you're right, I missed the fact that this was a

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 04:34:01PM CEST: Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question to the autoconf experts: Is it possible to write a macro AM_GETTEXT_NEED_NGETTEXT such that whenever a user writes AM_GETTEXT_NEED_NGETTEXT AM_GNU_GETTEXT or

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

2006-09-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 03:29:39PM CEST: (although you may find, as I did for m4's testsuite, that portably getting a file without a newline in the testsuite is not easy :). printf 'file contents without newline' file should work most everywhere where you

Re: extending directory selection, --pkglibdir

2006-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Tommi, * Tommi Mäkitalo wrote on Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:55:33AM CEST: I have a library-package, which loads driverlibraries at runtime with dlopen. I would like to put these dynamically loaded libraries into a separate package instead of $libdir. In automake I have $pgklibdir, but

Re: extending directory selection, --pkglibdir

2006-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Tommi Mäkitalo wrote on Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:59:30AM CEST: Am Mittwoch, 6. September 2006 10:18 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues: AC_SUBST([pkglibdir], ['${libdir}/'$PACKAGE]) I want to have a configure-switch, so the packager can decide, where to install them. Something like

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello David, * David Byron wrote on Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:57:21PM CEST: I repeated the test, running make as $ make -d -p -r make.out 21 and see this: Prerequisite `../configure' is newer than target `config.status'. Must remake target `config.status'. /bin/sh ./config.status

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-09-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello David, * David Byron wrote on Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:03:20PM CEST: Now I think I'm left with just one dilemna. The docs say I need to run autoreconf -fvi after an autotools upgrade. I think that means my helper Makefile (the one that runs autoreconf, makes a build directory, runs

Re: autotest appropriated ?

2006-09-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Thomas, * Thomas Porschberg wrote on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:22:52AM CEST: I have to establish a test system on Unix/Linux systems which has to run/test Java, PLSQL, C/C++ and Shell programs. Actually it should be able to run a complete test on a (sub)project. Is autotest a suitable

Re: Build package with subpackages

2006-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Sanjaya, Harlan, * Harlan Stenn wrote on Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:18:31AM CEST: You can specify the build order in the SUBDIRS variable, and '.' can be one of the things specified. By default, . is built first (as I recall). It's the other way round: by default, the build order is

Re: Build package with subpackages

2006-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Sanjaya Ratnaweera wrote on Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:12:22AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: And use AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS for specifying directories containing sub-configure scripts. The problem is this. I want to run sub-configure scripts before the main one. But when I put AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS

Re: questions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2006-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stefan, * Stefan Seefeld wrote on Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:50:40PM CEST: I have just read about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR as a means to specify additional places to look for M4 macros. I notice that the generated configure script still contains traces of that macro, notably, a check for the

Re: questions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2006-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefan Seefeld wrote on Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 06:45:51PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: The idea is that your final package tarball should contain what's needed to recreate the generated configure script. It is one thing for a source package to contain M4 code, but another to require

Re: questions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2006-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:21:04PM CEST: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:42:41PM -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote: [...] And yes, bailing out in configure's execution if the directory isn't present, but then never touch the directory again, isn't contributing to clarify anything

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 3 failed

2006-09-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Lukas, Thanks for the bug report. * Lukas Jankowski wrote on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:07:17AM CEST: I have problem with 'make check', test 3. Don't worry. This specific failure is a bug in the Autoconf testsuite. It has already been fixed in the CVS version of Autoconf, and will be fixed

Re: Newbee : configure.in:618: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest

2006-09-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Karl, * Karl Schmitt wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:12:11AM CEST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vobs/old_cvs_stuff7 autoconf configure.in:618: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest /usr/src/packages/BUILD/autoconf-2.59/tests/../lib/autoconf/status.m4:848: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded

Re: Bug report

2006-09-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Tony, * Tony Jennings - Jensoft Ltd wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:40:08AM CEST: The attached log shows a bug reported during running configure in coreutils-5.0 Thanks for the bug report. moonraker cd coreutils-5.0 moonraker ./configure checking build system type...

Re: Newbee : autoconf -Wall + configure.in

2006-09-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Karl Schmitt wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:58:30PM CEST: AC_OUTPUT([ Makefile [...] dnl src/plandisp/Makefile [...] Please remove the line within the first AC_OUTPUT argument that is commented out with dnl. Then autoconf should succeed. If it moans about macros such as AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

Re: Newbee : back to square (problem) one

2006-09-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Karl Schmitt wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 04:37:53PM CEST: it was actually me who added that nasty dnl :-( I did as you told and got the next or prior problem which was the reason why I added that nasty dnl Why didn't you say so right away? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vobs/old_cvs_stuff7 aclocal

Re: how to check linked libarys?

2006-09-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Yapo wrote on Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:49:02PM CEST: I have created configure.in that tests if libary libz.so exists with AC_CHECK_FILE (i don't want to search with funcion in AC_CHECK_LIB), Why do you do or need that? This sounds very counterintuitive: typically you try to set up

Re: making part of package optional at ./configure time

2006-09-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Mick, * mick wrote on Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:36:15AM CEST: I am trying to make the inclusion of a module of my program an option configurable in ./configure but can't get it right. At the moment I have in configure.ac AC_ARG_ENABLE(webcam, [ --disable-webcam

Re: Optimizing ./configure

2006-09-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Debarshi, * Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote on Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:17:39PM CEST: I am using the following configure.ac to generate the configure script for a program whose only dependencies are GNU Bash, and GNU Libextractor. However on running ./configure, once autoconfig has generated

Re: ./configure --help doesn't mention LIBS

2006-09-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:21:58AM CEST: 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 [...] Digging deeper, I noticed LIBS

Re: Noobie question

2006-09-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Douglas, * Douglas Phillipson wrote on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:55:50PM CEST: I'm not sure if this is an automake or autoconf question. How do you get the GNU build system to install a file in a specific location. I.E. I want to install a config file in /etc when I do a make install.

Re: Checking dependency style

2006-10-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Rohit, * Rohit Arul Raj wrote on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:04:32AM CEST: I was trying to build a package (m4 1.4.7) using two different cross compilers. one was GCC 4.1.1and other was non GNU compiler 3.4. My autoconf version is 2.6.0, automake is 1.9.6 one of the output of the

Re: correct check for -rdynamic

2006-10-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Dan, * Dan McMahill wrote on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 07:45:04AM CEST: Anyone have a correct check to see if the compiler needs/accepts -rdynamic or maybe -Wl,--export-dynamic? Not quite, but Libtool has a table of things this translates to, see $export_dynamic_flag_spec (plus $wl). If you

Re: Bug#395466: AM_PATH_CHECK causes possibly undefined macro errors

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ http://bugs.debian.org/395466 ] Hello Josh, * Josh Triplett wrote on Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:33:30AM CEST: --- check.m4.orig 2006-10-13 12:24:41.0 -0700 +++ check.m4 2006-10-26 23:55:54.0 -0700 @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_CHECK], [ -

Re: How to cross compile?

2006-10-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, Please remove automake@gnu.org from followups. This is an Autoconf question. Thank you. * shamju joseph wrote on Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:23:54PM CEST: I want to cross compile one open source flash player ('gnash') for a Fusiv processor(ADI) based board. I've the cross-compiler

Re: m4_for bug?

2006-11-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:11:32PM CET: Based on the documentation, I expected m4_for([i], [1], [5000], [[a]]) to be identical to m4_for([i], [1], [5000], [], [[a]]) with both forms printing 5000 a's. Are you sure? The documentation states | -- Macro:

Re: 2.60 and AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS

2006-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bill, * Bill Moseley wrote on Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:37:29PM CET: I have this in configure.in: AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS AC_DEFINE([GETGROUPS_T],GETGROUPS_T,[Check for groups with AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS]) The last line is broken and unnecessary, AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS will define

Re: configure and gcc

2006-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello David, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:52:39AM CET: I am trying to incorporate configure into a hc12 library rework of libgel. In the original by Stephane Carre, he didn't use autoconf. I want to try and configure GCC version (m6812-elf-gcc) instead of gcc.

Re: 2.60 and AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS

2006-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bill Moseley wrote on Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:51:54PM CET: Thanks -- I don't have any idea why that line is in there. It may have been copied from a googled configure.in or maybe someone had a reason for using it at one point. If we were under svn instead of cvs maybe svn blame would

Re: autoconf warning

2006-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Brook, Thanks for the report. * brook davis wrote on Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 04:15:32AM CET: [...] checking linux/irda.h usability... no checking linux/irda.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: linux/irda.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: linux/irda.h: check for

Re: autoconf config issue: what does ``|#_!!_#|'' mean?

2006-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:07:53AM CET: Paul Eggert wrote: Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of my clients is seeing this 8 character weirdism in all of the substitution expressions, rendering the configured files all completely broken. I've not seen it

Re: autoconf config issue: what does ``|#_!!_#|'' mean?

2006-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* quoting myself: grepping config.status for values is _not_ an appropriate, documented way of extracting configure test results. Just to give this a constructive side: If you[1] would like to know the result of Autoconf tests, there are config files and config headers that transport this

Re: A doubt

2006-11-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * shamju joseph wrote on Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:38:46AM CET: I've one doubt. Can I run 'autogen.sh' (which runs aclocal, autoheader, autoconf and automake) on one system to generate 'configure' script and use this 'configure' script on another system for installing software?

Re: 'make check' for autogen-5.8.7 fails - possibly an autoconf bug

2006-11-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Sergei, Thanks for the report. I assume this is related to Bruce's recent report on the autoconf@gnu.org list. * Sergei Steshenko wrote on Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:06:11AM CET: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=103593aid=1591697group_id=3593 Please let me know whether

Re: How to specify linker

2006-11-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * shamju joseph wrote on Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:14:07PM CET: We can specify cross-compiler by setting the variable CC. How can we specify other cross tools like linker, assembler, ldd, strip etc to configure script? Where should we specify CC, before configure or after

Re: Error while running autogen

2006-11-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* shamju joseph wrote on Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:26:30AM CET: I've some problem running autogen and is listed below. Can someone tell the reason? system : i686-pc-linux-gnu aclocal : 1.9 automake : 1.9 autoheader : 2.59 autoconf : 2.59 libtoolize : 1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] agg-2.4]$

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