Re: Autoconf regex test

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
"Geoff" == Geoff Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But you can of course also write sh commands in your configure.in that compiles regex.c instead. Geoff I think that's probably sufficient. If you mean compiling by hand, don't do that. Use AC_TRY_COMPILE, or AC_COMPILE_IFELSE with the

Re: [PATCH] miniscule documentation fix

2000-04-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 3, 2000, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact I did not include one at all. May be I did something wrong? Changes in comments and/or docs don't strictly require ChangeLog entries. It might have been nice to include one, since it was an external user that was kind enough to

Re: [PATCH] miniscule documentation fix

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre It might have been nice to include one, since it was an Alexandre external user that was kind enough to supply us with the Alexandre fix, but we need not bother creating such ChangeLog entries Alexandre ourselves. I solved this

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -8- I just installed a cute hack in the AutoGen CVS :-) I made an archive file named "configure" that contains a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf.

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:57:33AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I made an archive file named "configure" that contains : a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating : the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf. :

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
"Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akim CVS Autoconf sticks to Automake 1.4: that's why you find all Akim those problems. Use 1.4 instead, that's the easier way out. Oops, now I remember you *should* use 1.4, otherwise, because we rely on something which has changed between 1.4

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir? Alexandre A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it Alexandre work. I don't know if it has

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: --- Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made an archive file named "configure" that contains a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf. ^^ NOT PORTABLE.

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something similar)? Can't do that either. A mv is a cp rm. 1. It is only for developers 2 How about putting at the end: ( ( sleep 3 ; rm -f configure ; autoconf ) ) exit 0 After 3 seconds, the

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:46:08AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something : similar)? : : Can't do that either. A mv is a cp rm. I thought it was a link() and an unlink(), but you're

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:17:02AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: : Earnie Boyd wrote: : How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something : similar)? : : : Can't do that either. A mv is a cp rm. : : 1. It is only for developers : 2 How about putting at the end: : :

Re: Autoconf security - AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
"Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Moreover, there's another problem: any user may simply touch /tmp/conftest9012345 and cause autoconf to think long filenames are not supported, unless the user sets TMPDIR to something other than