bug#13378: [PATCH] subdir-objects: complain if it isn't enabled (was: Re: bug#13378: [IMPORTANT] Make the 'subdir-objects' setup the default, and only available one)

2013-01-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378 On 01/07/2013 09:08 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Severity: wishlist Inspired from Automake-NG commit 'v1.12.1-313-g14fe163' of 2012-06-07, [ng] subdir-objects: enable unconditionally. The fact that Automake-generated Makefiles

bug#13378: [PATCH] compile: use 'compile' script when -c -o is used with losing compilers

2013-01-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/13/2013 09:01 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: On 2013-01-12 11:05 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 01/11/2013 08:16 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 01/11/2013 07:19 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/10/2013 06:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Reference:

bug#13355: Deprecating and removing the 'mkinstalldir' script

2013-01-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/12/2013 09:35 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 01/04/2013 11:15 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Severity: wishlist The 'mksintalldirs' script has been by long superseded by install-sh -d, has already deprecated in the documentation, and already removed in Automake-NG. I'd like to remove

bug#13378: Backward-compatibility in the autotools

2013-01-13 Thread Peter Johansson
On 01/12/2013 04:45 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: As a rule of thumb on when to remove a macro - I would personally like being able to write a configure script that works on both RHEL 5 (or CentOS 5) (autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6) as well as rawhide (eventually automake 1.14 and beyond),

bug#13378: [PATCH] compile: use 'compile' script when -c -o is used with losing compilers

2013-01-13 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2013-01-12 11:05 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 01/11/2013 08:16 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 01/11/2013 07:19 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/10/2013 06:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Reference: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#50 @acindex AC_PROG_CC_C_O

bug#13378: [PATCH 2/2] Automatically call AM_PROG_CC_C_O as required.

2013-01-13 Thread Nick Bowler
If subdir-objects is made the default Automake behaviour, packages will need to add AM_PROG_CC_C_O to their configure.ac. Instead of that, let's just make the functionality provided by AM_PROG_CC_C_O mandatory for C projects, and have Automake automatically call it as required. This change

bug#13378: [PATCH 2/2] Automatically call AM_PROG_CC_C_O as required.

2013-01-13 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2013-01-13, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/13/2013 09:01 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: +dnl Automatically invoke AM_PROG_CC_C_O as necessary. Since AC_PROG_CC is +dnl usually called after AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, we arrange for the test to be +dnl done later by