RE: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman, As I understand it (based on version 1.4-p4 documentation) automake already defines the contents of INCLUDES and DEFS, so your proposed patch will 'overwrite' the default value of 'INCLUDES' and 'DEFS' which could cause problems. The whole point of this is to append to the existing

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: I don't see an alternate way of doing this that will work with automake-1.4 Did you actually try my proposed fix ?? Well, I looked at the generated makefiles, and there is an important system define in 'DEFS' that would get overwritten. DEFS =

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: I don't see an alternate way of doing this that will work with automake-1.4 Did you actually try my proposed fix ?? Well, I looked at the generated makefiles, and there is an important system define in 'DEFS' that would

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Norman Vine
Derek Lisoski writes: Does the new autoconf also require updates to the missing script? And could this be causing the syntax error as well? Maybe, but my guess is that these are symlinks that didn't get removed and are mismatched to the auto* version that you are using. Cygwin will use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bernie, I don't believe make allows 'circular' dependencies like that. I know at least some versions do not. Would be awfully convenient, but I don't think it is allowed. Curt. Bernie Bright writes: Norman Vine wrote: [snip] I don't use the stock configure scripts so it is kind

[Flightgear-devel] Doc: How to position objects in FlightGear scenery

2001-12-27 Thread Wolfram Kuss
Here is what you have to do to edit fgfs scenery tiles with PPE: 1) Get PPE (prettypoly Editor, see prettypoly.sf.net ). Get a program that converts btg to atg files, called btg2atg in this text. Windows people can simply download the binaries:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Bernie Bright
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Bernie, I don't believe make allows 'circular' dependencies like that. I know at least some versions do not. Would be awfully convenient, but I don't think it is allowed. Curt. On the other hand FOO += bar is an extension not available to all makes. We seem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bernie Bright writes: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Bernie, I don't believe make allows 'circular' dependencies like that. I know at least some versions do not. Would be awfully convenient, but I don't think it is allowed. Curt. On the other hand FOO += bar is an extension not

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: Hmm... Configure files are a PAIN But less of a pain than the other options ... FWIW I just tried this with Cygwin and the STOCK distribution with my proposed changes using autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4-p5 and everything just works. But to override the default values

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Makefile.am / autoconf problems

2001-12-27 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Bernie Bright writes: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Bernie, I don't believe make allows 'circular' dependencies like that. I know at least some versions do not. Would be awfully convenient, but I don't think it is allowed. Curt. On the other hand FOO