Alexander Mai wrote:
>
> I just need to cry out somewhere ...
>
> Again I am trying to get lesstif build on DU 4.0 w/o any explicit settings
> in the environment. It seems those beloved auto* tools are just to
> stupid ...
>
> - AM_PROG_CC_STDC
> doesn't check nearly for ANSI conformance. All - really all it does
> it checking support for prototypes or something like this.
> Result: so far it didn't work out w/o explicit setting of CFLAGS
>
> - AC_PROG_YACC
> which idiot creates such a macro which unlike it's name uses
> bison by default if found? Default should be to use yacc!
Oooh, hold it! Do you really think your wording is appropriate?
As a long term auto* tool user, you should know how to force using
particular tools (E.g. Do not use AC_PROG_YACC, but write your own
LT_PROG_YACC).
Wrt. yacc: Many yaccs are broken and bison -y is supposed to supply
a compatible replacement.
> The GNU one also has brain-dead handling of __STDC__ and const
> and all this. Why don't those people never test such things
> on more than their development machine??
They do. However, what do you expect? People like you should report
problems to the appropriate lists otherwise nobody will be able to
fix them.
So, instead of ranting the way you are doing here, you'd better file
bug reports or report your problems to the appropriate lists
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
> - libtool 1.4 requires autoconf/CVS on alpha-linux.
> This in turn is not compatible to the earlier release and so
> installing it is no pure fun
Consequently you should fix your stuff to get it working w/
autoconf/CVS, or refrain from using libtool-1.4 and/or document
alpha-linux as not supported (If it didn't work with older libtool
versions this is no loss, if it did, continue using the older
libtool-version).
> - left-over of some major bug in automake still in the patched 1.4-p1 release.
> (we need to define some vars both conditionally and unconditionally)
Why do you think automake is being basically reworked for more than
a 1.5 years now. 1.4-p1 is nothing but a bug-fix-release to
automake-1.4 to get libtool-1.4 working with automake at all.
> Probably I should x-post to the bug-aut*@ lists, but I guess it won't
> help much.
You can't be serious ...
Ralf
