Re: PATCH + What might cause this failure?

2002-08-21 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Bruce Oh, PacBell seems to be eating my emails and I am likely Bruce unsubscribed from all my email lists, so you have to reply Bruce directly. Evidence for this is my patch. It's not in the Bruce email archive. So, here it is: Where?

Re: PATCH + What might cause this failure?

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce Oh, PacBell seems to be eating my emails This is over now, but I'll need to resubscribe to automake Bruce So, here it [the patch] is: Where? :-) I got to writing and left off the patch. Actually, even more absent minded, I was looking at the

Re: PATCH + What might cause this failure?

2002-08-21 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Why don't you simply use DIST_SUBDIRS? [...] Bruce 2. Even now that I've read it, using it would mean taking over Bruce an automatable chore from automake. I don't get this. Which chore should be automated? The definition of

PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Why don't you simply use DIST_SUBDIRS? Bruce 2. Even now that I've read it, using it would mean taking over Bruce an automatable chore from automake. I don't get this. Which chore should be automated? Maintaining the contents of DIST_SUBDIRS. If I make an assignment to it, then I am

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why don't you simply use DIST_SUBDIRS? Bruce 2. Even now that I've read it, using it would mean taking over Bruce an automatable chore from automake. I don't get this. Which chore should be automated? Bruce Maintaining the contents of

Re: GNU build system support (autoconf, automake, libtool) for NetWare

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Tromey
Paul == Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Does anyone know of any past, current, or future efforts to have Paul the GNU build system (autoconf, automake, libtool) support the Paul NetWare platform? I'm not aware of any efforts in this regard. Tom

Re: [patch] Another over zealous sanity check

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Tromey
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce +## DO NOT FORGET that there may be duplicates in the source and build :-( When? Bruce - cp -pR $$d/$$file $(distdir)$$dir || exit 1; \ Bruce + cp -pR $$d/$$file $(distdir)$$dir || :; \ A patch like this really requires

Re: Single question FAQ

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Tromey
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Attached are three files: I finally looked at this. It sure is a lot of machinery for a faq! Also I had to download and install autogen, since it doesn't come with my distribution. When I try to run autogen I get this: grep:

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce SUBDIRS = MAYBE_BAR Bruce EXTRA_DIST = NOT_MAYBE_BAR Odd. I don't understand how you get duplicates this way. It all has to do with configuring the Makefile incorporated in the distributed subdirectory. There is no way to do it conditionally.

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Richard Boulton
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 16:28, Bruce Korb wrote: Why don't you simply use DIST_SUBDIRS? Bruce 2. Even now that I've read it, using it would mean taking over Bruce an automatable chore from automake. I don't get this. Which chore should be automated? Maintaining the contents of

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Richard Boulton wrote: automake will be able to calculate the correct value for DIST_SUBDIRS by taking all possible values for SUBDIRS. So: if BAR MAYBE_BAR = bar fi SUBDIRS = foo $(MAYBE_BAR) DIST_SUBDIRS is automatically calculated as foo bar Now it is clear to me. I did not

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Richard Boulton
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:40, Bruce Korb wrote: Now it is clear to me. I did not understand the extra magic. Thank you. I was relying on this: It is possible to override the `SUBDIRS' variable if, like in the case of GNU `Inetutils', you want to only build a subset of the entire

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Bruce That proposal being: Bruce if BAR Bruce MAYBE_BAR = bar Bruce fi Bruce SUBDIRS = foo $(MAYBE_BAR) Bruce The issues are: Bruce 1. How do you distribute bar when BAR is not defined? Type `make dist' and this will happen

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Richard Boulton wrote: :-( Read the source, Luke Hmm: that documentation is fairly unhelpful. It was last updated 13-Feb-98: I'm guessing that was before DIST_SUBDIRS was invented. misleading is more than just unhelpful, though I do understand that this is an unfunded project. Thanks

Re: doco hpux ia64 make trailing backslash

2002-08-21 Thread Kevin Ryde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: I will verify that that bug exists at least up through 10.20. Between 10.20 and 11.0 HP changed their make program somewhat. For what it's worth we got a bug report today about it happening on a HP-UX null B.10.20 A 9000/898. But another hpux 10.20 had

bootstrapping blocksort bombs

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
The log: bootstrapping in /home/bkorb/ag/bs RUN: rm -f config.cache RUN: libtoolize --force You should add the contents of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'. RUN: mv -f config.guess config.sub ltmain.sh cfg/. RUN: aclocal -I cfg RUN: autoheader autoheader: `config-h.in'