Re: utility programs used during build

2004-01-14 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:05 pm, Warren Turkal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 January 2004 05:54 am, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Warren Turkal wrote: | Is there any analysis on what it would take to create utility programs | that are only used during

Re: utility programs used during build

2004-01-14 Thread Warren Turkal
Gary V.Vaughan wrote: It depends on the compiler you use.  If you have configured with a crosscompiler, it will do that yes.  Maybe you can override it?  You would have to copy the compile and link rules from the generated Makefile into your Makefile.am, and then change the compiler to

Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p

2004-01-14 Thread Bruno Haible
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: One handy use when building for multiple architectures is to use config.guess to supply part of the build directory name so that it is very easy to manage heterogeneous builds within one file system. Agreed. That's a use of the distribution name and version that won't

Re: make distcheck problem

2004-01-14 Thread Tom Tromey
Lars == Lars Hecking [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars if BUILD_SRC_BEOS_SUBDIR Lars d_beos = beos Lars endif Lars SUBDIRS = $(d_beos) Lars If I run make distcheck in the top level directory, it bombs out at Lars one point because the beos subdir doesn't exist. Is this a bug in Lars automake?

Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p

2004-01-14 Thread Harlan Stenn
It is way to late to even think about changing things now. It's never too late to improve software. The amount of software that will be created from here on can be reasonably expected to be MUCH greater than what has been written so far. The change to, for example: i686-DistroRev-linux-gnu

Re: Internal Error

2004-01-14 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Patrick == Patrick Welche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick Slowly giving up.. autoconf cvs with Eric Sunshine's Patrick SHELL patch applied, but maybe not propagated to all Patrick the executables involved, and automake cvs of today, Patrick NetBSD-1.6ZG/i386, in the automake directory:

Re: Internal Error

2004-01-14 Thread Patrick Welche
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:28:55PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Patrick == Patrick Welche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick Slowly giving up.. autoconf cvs with Eric Sunshine's Patrick SHELL patch applied, but maybe not propagated to all Patrick the executables involved, and

Re: Odd warning

2004-01-14 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Ralf == Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf Hi, Ralf After having upgraded from automake-1.8.1 to automake-1.8.2 (And having Ralf modified some Makefile.ams), I received this warning from automake: Ralf configure.ac:16: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.8.2, Ralf

Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p

2004-01-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Harlan Stenn wrote: I think you are missing my point. The information I am talking about is used for *runtime* decisions - very likely in a script that is in a shared directory used by many different architectures. If for use at runtime then config.guess is very poorly suited. Do you