automake flunks autoconf

2008-08-13 Thread hblarson
Automake configure (v1.9.6 and v1.10) fail to verify version number of autoconf (v.2.62). Automake exits with error message: configure:2365: checking whether autoconf is recent enough configure:2372: cd conftest eval autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac conftest.ac:1: error: Autoconf version 2.58

automake distribution packages

2008-08-13 Thread hblarson
This package is distributed as a tar.gz with no source files; only binaries. So, what is the install procedure? Where should they be put when unpacking? -- Howard Larson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

playing w/ GCC warnings

2008-08-13 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
What do people do to make experimentation w/ GCC warnings easy? In Guile-PG's configure.in, there is: |## If we're using GCC, ask for aggressive warnings. |if test x$GCC = xyes ; then | AGGRESSIVE_WARNINGS=-std=gnu99 -pedantic | for x in all extra float-equal declaration-after-statement \ |

Re: playing w/ GCC warnings

2008-08-13 Thread Rhys Ulerich
Some variation on the AC_COMPILE_WARNINGS macro at the cryp.to archive may be what you want (http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/ac_compile_warnings.html). There are several other warnings-related macros there. - Rhys On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Thien-Thi Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What