drop usage of obsolete AC_OBJEXT and AC_EXEEXT

2008-03-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Applied to master and branch-1-10. Cheers, Ralf 2008-03-08 Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drop usage of obsolete macros AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT. * tests/ansi4.test: Drop AC_OBJEXT and AC_EXEEXT. * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise. * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.

FYI: master now depends on unreleased Autoconf

2008-03-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I'm about to apply the fast install patch. Since it needs the fixed AC_PROG_INSTALL, git master of Automake will depend on an unreleased Autoconf version, which I'm putting in with the patch below (diffs of generated files not shown, as always). With respect to committing generated files, I will

Re: fast make install

2008-03-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:13:13AM CET: Here's the proposed patch (generated files not shown), still missing Autoconf version requirement. It does the fast install for HEADERS, DATA, PYTHON, LIBRARIES, and TEXINFOS outputs. Comments, reviews, etc., greatly

Project Quagmire

2008-03-08 Thread Tom Tromey
I recently started work on a new automake-like project, called Quagmire. I thought folks interested in Automake would also be interested in this; I hope no one is offended that I am posting this here. For years I've been interested in a few twists on the auto* idea: * Integrate configury into