Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:44:17PM CET: 2010/3/22 Russell Shaw: Steffen Dettmer wrote: * On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: BTW, execution of built programs like this makes your package unsuitable for cross-compilation.  Just so

Re: Automake Installation Error

2010-03-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello William, * William Drozd wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:48:58PM CET: I have configured/make/make install on autoconf with no problems. I have run automake's configure with no problems. However, when I run make while trying to install automake I get the error: -bash-3.1$ make

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: Not true. automake does not have explicit support for building programs with the host compiler when cross-compiling, but I have done this successfully in the past when I needed precisely to build a program on the host when

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: Not true. automake does not have explicit support for building programs with the host compiler when cross-compiling, but I have done this successfully in the past when I needed precisely to build a

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Steffen Dettmer
(OT) On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50 PM, John Calcote john.calc...@gmail.com wrote: Reuben, you've just hit upon one of the two most significant problems with Javadoc and the like (including doxygen, man pages, and info pages): sorry, I cannot leave this, because this would be an excuse for

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 06:03, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:44:17PM CET: 2010/3/22 Russell Shaw: Steffen Dettmer wrote: * On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: BTW, execution of built programs

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 10:15, Steffen Dettmer steffen.dett...@googlemail.com wrote: This illustrates a weirdness of autotools: poor support for installing interpreted languages, and also conversely for build-time compiled programs. Yes, also for coffee-cooking there is poor support only. :-) Sure,

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
2010/3/22 Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org: If searching is the problem *Web* searching is the answer, not the problem. It isn't when you are not connected to a network. how does the indices not fix the problem? I rarely find anything useful in the indices other than particular

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 17:15, Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org wrote:   2010/3/22 Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org:   If searching is the problem   *Web* searching is the answer, not the problem. It isn't when you are not connected to a network. I usually wait until I am; it often takes me rather

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You say that the manuals are poor and that it is obvious, but I cannot figure out from your explanation how they are poor. I've looked at a few manuals, glibc, emacs, coreutils, autoconf, and m4, and all of them have good indices, are organised cleanly, etc. Can you mention one or two manuals,

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 18:12, Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org wrote: You say that the manuals are poor I said that the indices are poor, specifically at indexing concepts rather than just keywords, function names c., in general. I also said that the manuals in general are excellent. and that it is

Keeping source directory structure

2010-03-23 Thread Brendon Costa
Hi all, I have been using automake for a while now, however I recently came across an issue i haven't had to worry about before, which is having duplicate named source files under different directory structures producing conflicting object files. Say i have a source directory structure like: