Re: broken line continuation in DOS files

2001-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
mode, rather than binary mode, or else treating \\\r, \\\r\n, and \\\n as equivalent line continuations. I was able to work around the bug locally by stripping out all \r from Makefile.am. -- This signature intentionally left boring. Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] BYU student, free

Re: build question

2002-02-06 Thread Eric Blake
What do you want me to do to test this out, so we can fix the root of the problem? Tom Tromey wrote to the Classpath list [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Eric == Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric automake: native/jni/java-lang/Makefile.am: `\' is not a standard Eric libtool library name

Re: build question

2002-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
the call to binmode in XFile.pm, and everything worked fine for me. I was able to run automake on files that previously died because of the CRLF nonsense of Windows. 2002-02-10 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/Automake/XFile.pm (open): Don't use binmode on files, as it breaks

Re: build question

2002-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
::XFile, overload the getline method (as well as the HANDLE operator) to strip \r before passing any line of text to the rest of automake. Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Eric == Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Eric So my previous patch did not solve the file read problem

Re: build question

2002-02-13 Thread Eric Blake
replacement: $_ may can contains many lines +# in slurp mode ($/ = undef). +s/\015\012/\n/gs if defined $_; +return $_; } 1; -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz -- This signature intentionally left boring. Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] BYU student, free software

Re: build question

2002-02-14 Thread Eric Blake
]: Leaving directory `/home/eblake/automake/tests make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eblake/automake/tests' It looks like everything is just fine on cygwin with this patch applied. -- This signature intentionally left boring. Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] BYU student, free software

missing fi for compilation to .obj

2002-11-14 Thread Eric Blake
) '$'; else $(CYGPATH_W) '$(srcdir)/$'`; \ Notice the missing fi inside the backticks. I don't have the automake sources in front of me, but the file to patch gets installed as /usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am. 2002-11-14 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * am/depend2.am: Add missing fi in c.obj rule

Re: make -k fails on cygwin

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Blake
-recursive, distclean-recursive, maintainer-clean-recursive): Process all words of $MAKEFLAGS when checking for -k. * tests/check4.test: New file. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add check4.test. Report from Eric Blake. I verified that `make -k' worked on cygwin after applying

Re: [bug-gnulib] proposal for fdl module

2006-07-11 Thread Eric Blake
therefore not be incorporated in the package that uses gnulib. Actually, regexprops-generic.texi is also end-user doc, which CVS Head of M4 wants to incorporate. 2006-07-10 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * gnulib-tool: Avoid space-tab. What's the point of this change? Also, please present

request for pkglibexecdir

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Blake
rather than shared libraries for dlopen'ing. It would be nice if automake provided $(pkglibexecdir) alongside $(pkglibdir) and friends. [1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables -- Eric Blake

Re: depcomp deficiency [was: m4-1.4.7 build feedback]

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-dependency-tracking' - this is exactly what it was invented for. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: depcomp deficiency [was: m4-1.4.7 build feedback]

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFGxns84KuGfSFAYARAppXAKCOBXg3JyqwuAhcvV4

bug in --version

2006-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
after the copyright/warranty. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: bug in --version

2006-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/3/2006 2:26 AM: Hello Eric, On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:02:50PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Thanks for the 1.10 release! However, 'automake --version' does not comply with GNU Coding Standards. The Copyright line

Re: bug in --version

2006-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 12/3/2006 8:09 AM: According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/3/2006 2:26 AM: Hello Eric, On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:02:50PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Thanks for the 1.10 release! However, 'automake --version' does not comply

Re: Migration to Git?

2007-09-30 Thread Eric Blake
been done for gnulib - namely, turn of write access to the old CVS repository, and no longer publish its address, but still leave it live for doing diffs. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: how to avoid automake dependency?

2007-10-22 Thread Eric Blake
automake version (I'm assuming you have 1.10, but not 1.9, installed on your PATH). Once that is done, future gnulib updates will remember that you used automake 1.10, and no longer insist on trying automake-1.9. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: Custom Build

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
rules: http://sourceware.org/automake/automake.html#index-Adding-new-_0040code_007bSUFFIXES_007d-880 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: new module: xprintf

2007-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
, and so that users trying to write bug reports against the macro have a better chance of guessing which package actually owns the macro? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin

Re: acinclude.m4 warning

2007-10-30 Thread Eric Blake
to get them off ? They are merely warnings. But if you don't want them, then you should follow their advice, and move the serial number comment on line 3700 to live prior to any macro definitions in your included .m4 files. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: building with older Automake

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Blake
a hard dependency on (as yet unreleased) automake. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

'set -u' and $SHELL in makefiles [was: GNU M4]

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
)? Or is it better to figure out how this user got 'set -u' enabled in your SHELL in the first place, and add workarounds (perhaps in autoconf, rather than automake?) to avoid such an awkward setup? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 'set -u' and $SHELL in makefiles [was: GNU M4]

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
= ...' line at the beginning that was in m4/Makefile? You didn't run this test. Also, could there be some other environment variables interfering? At this point, the output of 'env' might prove helpful. Anyone else have ideas? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: traces output order

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfjp

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make install' fails if file system is case insensitive

2008-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
-sensitive GNU make). Maybe the short answer is that on MSYS (or anywhere else with case-insensitive GNU make), you should not expect 'make dist*' to work. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: how to install data directories

2008-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
/automake/manual/html_node/Dist.html#Dist - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: How to stop reconfiguration?

2008-09-06 Thread Eric Blake
some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: passing autoreconf -I to aclocal -I

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Blake
{autoheader} internally. +Passed on to @command{aclocal}, @command{autoconf} and @command{autoheader} internally. @item [EMAIL PROTECTED] @itemx -B @var{dir} - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: including autoconf paths in source

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
that gets compiled. For example, see how gnulib does it: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=modules/configmake;h=5160128;hb=58fe6dc - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

resync auto{make,m4te} perl modules?

2009-03-14 Thread Eric Blake
added perl threading to make channel processing more efficient). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: GNU M4 1.4.13 released (stable)

2009-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
commentary on it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: aclocal problems

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: aclocal problems

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/m4/00gnulib.m4 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=fcf62c3d - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: silent build rules

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
incompatible output unless the user provides an explicit --disable-silent-rules or V=1, then we should not accept an optional arg to AM_SILENT_RULES. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin

Re: Core-utils 7.2; building only 'su'

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
distcheck'), that I think it would be nice if using AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE did make the ./configure --help mention the future effect of DESTDIR. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: Core-utils 7.2; building only 'su'

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
with proper VPATH builds; two aspects that many non-automake packages get horribly wrong. http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Preparing-Distributions - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: silent build rules

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
okay with either leaving it undocumented, or removing the optional argument altogether. But I'm pretty much convinced that documenting the optional parameter is a bad idea. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Core-utils 7.2; building only 'su'

2009-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
and the Automake manual overview of the GNU build system. Does anyone want to beat me to a patch? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: maintainer mode parallel make issue

2009-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
it is possible that some of the cygwin 1.7 improvements might be the cause of XFile::lock behaving differently; if there is a way to trim this down to a smaller test case, the cygwin developers would likely be able to investigate it. -- Eric Blake

Re: improve INSTALL contents

2009-05-13 Thread Eric Blake
suggestions on how to improve the wording to make this point more explicit? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment

Re: improve INSTALL contents

2009-05-15 Thread Eric Blake
hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: silent-rules

2009-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
the option to choose YOUR desired default, even if it is different than the package author's desired default. The use of silent-rules is an option, not a mandate. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: --gnits, AC_INIT and VERSION

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
to diversions, so it is safe for AC_INIT. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: appending to BUILT_SOURCES, if appropriate

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Blake
the makefiles that don't append to BUILT_SOURCES to just add the line BUILT_SOURCES= prior to the include, then use BUILT_SOURCES+= in the included file. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: twaking the $VERSION of the make dist targets

2010-04-12 Thread Eric Blake
some distro branding. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files

2010-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
the autotools, then only check in the machine-independent files. But if you use autoconf itself as the example, autoconf.git does _not_ check in any generated files, even if they are machine-independent; you have to bootstrap autoconf.git by pre-installing autoconf from a tarball. -- Eric Blake ebl

appending to DEPENDENCIES

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
dependencies, and then you add one more file? It seems like it would be nice to support foo_DEPENDENCIES += other_file, without requiring that foo_DEPENDENCIES= previously occur in the file. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: appending to DEPENDENCIES

2010-05-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/17/2010 12:02 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:41:08AM CEST: Right now, either you use foo_DEPENDENCIES and have to list everything yourself, or you omit it, and automake does a good job. But what about the case where you want automake

Re: How to echo a $ to a file in Makefile.am

2010-07-02 Thread Eric Blake
however, waht I accully get is : /usr/share/myprogram/program-name PTIONS I try to add an '\' before '$', but it doesn't works. Automake borrows from make(1) syntax - to print $, use $$. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

gnupload question

2010-07-21 Thread Eric Blake
point for me, as I can just do the autoconf 2.67 upload with my new key. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: gnupload question

2010-07-21 Thread Eric Blake
to close the door on speculative discussion :) FWIW, gnupload --dry-run should provide you with those steps for the functionality it offers. Yep, thanks for the tip - it helped in trying my experiment. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http

Re: Call for help: Vala support in Automake

2010-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_%28programming_language%29 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: linux to windows cross compile af a dll

2010-08-24 Thread Eric Blake
of it. It seems to be related to http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/cross-gtk/libtool.html Is the hack that is mentioned necessary or is there another solution? This seems like it is a question more appropriate for the libtool list. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

Re: Automake and Texinfo: clean the info or pdf file

2010-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
to a .info in src and builddir?)? No - provided that it lives ONLY in the srcdir, then VPATH isn't confused. The confusion happens if you try to stick it in builddir and then distribute it. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: Automake and Texinfo: clean the info or pdf file

2010-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/31/2010 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: make default target /creates/ files in the source directory? Yes, in the maintainer's tree. One other point - it is assumed that the maintainer's tree is _never_ read-only (that is, a maintainer rule that modifies srcdir is fine). Otherwise, how

Re: Automake and Texinfo: clean the info or pdf file

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
argument goes for *.c files generated from *.y grammars - the *.c file may be generated, but it is machine-independent, therefore, it makes sense to distribute it pre-built in the tarball so that users need not have flex and bison available. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682

Re: [PATCH] nds32: add nds32 support into config_sub

2010-09-06 Thread Eric Blake
...@gnu.org; automake will then automatically pick this up once it is accepted upstream. And make sure you also check whether config.guess needs a matching patch. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: what is $ac_t ?

2010-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
[adding automake] On 09/17/2010 11:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote: checking for getrlimit declaration... (cached) install-shextern int getrlimit (enum __rlimit_resource, struct rlimit *); Hmm, on looking at this closer, I only fixed config.status, which happens towards the end of configure, but you

Re: POSIX make standardization wish list

2010-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
$(var2)) is certainly better than nothing, in combination with (1). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: using autoconf with ppuxlc++,spuxlc++

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
, but I just don't know and didn't think it was appropriate to cross post.) Actually, you'll probably have better luck on the automake list, since autoconf itself does not touch any -M option. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: When aclocal causes an error message, sed: invalid option -- 'q'

2010-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
topics and rebasing for work on an existing topic, while gnulib enforces rebasing only by forbidding merging so as to keep a linear history. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Augment instead of replace maude_DEPENDENCIES

2010-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed by automake. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description

recursive make variables coming to POSIX

2010-12-02 Thread Eric Blake
does not raise any objections (that is, if no one complains of a counterexample existing make implementation that fails to meet the proposed wording), then automake's silent-make implementation will switch from exploiting unspecified behavior over to using a POSIX-standardized feature. -- Eric

Re: recursive make variables coming to POSIX

2010-12-02 Thread Eric Blake
of POSIX 2008 (probably coming by late 2011) will not invalidate existing implementations; or it may result in the Austin Group deferring the change to the next full revision of the standard (several years out) to give those implementations time to comply with a tighter standard. -- Eric Blake ebl

Re: recursive make variables coming to POSIX

2010-12-06 Thread Eric Blake
Wildenhues wrote: Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 08:21:13PM CET: On 12/02/2010 12:10 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'm not sure if it was mentioned before in the discussion, but portability-wise, there is a difference between one level of recursion and arbitrary many. IIRC

configmake module and automake 1.9.6

2010-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
using older automake, such as an extra snippet of code to include in Makefile.am, and which will not interfere when using newer automake? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: configmake module and automake 1.9.6

2010-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/14/2010 02:10 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Eric Blake wrote: I just ran into an issue where libvirt failed to compile when autotooled with automake 1.9.6, because automake failed to define $(localedir) and therefore gnulib's configmake module did not define LOCALEDIR. Any suggestions on how

Re: configmake module and automake 1.9.6

2010-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
, then, I'm back to trying to modify the configmake module's configure.ac section, in a way that is friendly to the autotools already providing a definition, and which allows use of these variables throughout makefiles in addition to C files. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt

Re: configmake module and automake 1.9.6

2010-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
[dropping gnulib for this reply] On 12/14/2010 02:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote: # Listed in the same order as the GNU makefile conventions. # The Automake-defined pkg* macros are appended, in the order # listed in the Automake 1.10a+ documentation. +# Support newer definitions even when using

Re: Any way to get rid of -MP parameter to gcc for dependency creation?

2011-01-03 Thread Eric Blake
in the makefile? Since you're already willing to give up the benefits of dependency tracking, you might as well tell that to configure. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: High-Precision NFS Timestamps

2011-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
differences represent skew); some of that may be worth incorporating into the make code base if it isn't there already. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dashes in Makefile macro names

2011-01-28 Thread Eric Blake
for any additional feedback before pushing, in case anyone else has input on the matter. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dashes in Makefile macro names

2011-02-03 Thread Eric Blake
, we ought to fix the wording of the standard to call out that point at the same time it allows dash). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: portable way to normalize whitespace?

2011-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
, using common shell text processing programs (such as sed). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
that issue? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/23/2011 05:02 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: The question libtool reorders link fags seems to have a spelling error in the last word. It's not obvious to me what word is meant. flags -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: Makefile.in not generated using Automake

2011-06-14 Thread Eric Blake
exit status. Automake won't produce Makefile.in if required files are missing. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Weird behaviour of AM_CONDITIONAL

2011-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
is always true. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: [PATCH 09/25] syntax-check: fix violations and re-enable sc_makefile_at_at_check.

2011-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
. Then it's not NEWS-worthy. It's worth keeping that analysis in the git commit message (as you say, for repo archaeology), but let's limit it to just there, rather than potentially causing users to worry about some perceived loss of portability when they read NEWS. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

bug#10237: AM_SILENT_RULES does not work with NonStop make

2011-12-07 Thread Eric Blake
. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

2011-12-30 Thread Eric Blake
Names. The @anchor allows old @c links to still work. @anchor{Specifying Names} I'm not sure if putting the @anchor after the @node make a difference. If the anchor takes the old name to the previous node, then we may want to move the anchor to appear after the @node. -- Eric Blake ebl

RFC: cool hack for simplifying do_subst generation of scripts

2012-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
$@ -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Automake 1.11.2b test release

2012-01-27 Thread Eric Blake
a better maintenance job of multilib support in the first place, so this move is intended to point you towards the better-maintained source in the first place. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: *simple* example using Autotest

2012-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
hopefully help you get started on seeing how others have used it. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
of the second installation, and then adding automake and/or autoconf support for providing configure support for an alternate package name, seems like it would be worthwhile for more than just grub. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
... Yes. Unlike on *ix systems, where argv and environ are independent entities, Windows makes you deal with both limits at the same time, so increasing the size of environ reduces the size permitted in argv. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http

Re: should an empty pkgdata_DATA cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by make install?

2012-03-13 Thread Eric Blake
prefix also appeared with that directory. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Don't distribute auto*tools output; do distribute autoreconf input

2012-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
have required end users to have more tools available than normally required by the GNU Coding Standards to even be able to use your tarball. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[PATCH] config: drop scripts that automake says are not independent

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
these scripts are updated. * config/srclist.txt: Drop elisp-comp, missing, and ylwrap. * build-aux/elisp-comp: Delete. * build-aux/missing: Likewise. * build-aux/ylwrap: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com --- Any objections to this patch? ChangeLog|8 ++ build-aux

Re: [PATCH] config: drop scripts that automake says are not independent

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
[adding autoconf] On 06/26/2012 12:26 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Eric Blake wrote: * build-aux/elisp-comp: Delete. What about modules/elisp-comp? That module has only had one edit: it's introduction in 2006: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-08/msg00248.html with a claim

Re: distinguish automake 1.11 from 1.12+ at autoconf time

2012-08-06 Thread Eric Blake
that doesn't work with 1.11 and therefore you are trying to make it conditional so that 1.11 can still process the rest of the file. Determine that feature, and we are that much closer to helping you conditionalize your configure.ac to work with both versions. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1

v1.11.6 tag missing from automake.git?

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
I see v1.12.2, but no tag for v1.11.6 for the CVE-2012-3386 fix. Is this intentional? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: v1.11.6 tag missing from automake.git?

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/14/2012 04:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Eric. On 08/15/2012 12:16 AM, Eric Blake wrote: I see v1.12.2, but no tag for v1.11.6 for the CVE-2012-3386 fix. Hmm... I can see it without problems: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tag/?id=v1.11.6 User error on your

Re: [Automake-NG] Automake vs. Automake-NG

2012-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
NOT make more builds instantly silent, nor are we preventing you from your goal of noisy builds for the Fedora buildbots. Quit beating a dead horse to spread FUD about something which is not true. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http

Re: [PATCH] {master} compile: remove support for $(INCLUDES)

2012-08-22 Thread Eric Blake
that can then set an automake conditional, so that Makefile.am can then set either INCLUDES or AM_CPPFLAGS as appropriate within the two branches of the conditional. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description

Re: [PATCH] {master} compile: remove support for $(INCLUDES)

2012-08-22 Thread Eric Blake
/html/User_Guide/chap-Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset.html#sect-Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset-About -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [libvirt] libvirt build failure w/GNU make and automake.git (automake regression?)

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
'make', 'automake', or both should be patched to allow 'undefine', downstream in libvirt, I am pushing this trivial patch: From a20f06d9d9b0353d7fb7a8e11a631253d5961b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:25:51 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] build: avoid

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
from the source (where user includes major distros, who will then package it up in .rpm or apt formats as appropriate for the distro, and where the distro package-manager software like yum or apt-get can then be used to install that binary in desired locations). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

Re: apt-get/yum like dependency installation in autotool

2012-10-23 Thread Eric Blake
://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2012-09/msg00049.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-19 Thread Eric Blake
to touch the 'more =' line, rather than every use. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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