Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-06 Thread Akim Demaille
| Could you give more details on these steps? What can be done to have | it right without tuning by hand? | | What I set is: | PATH_SEPARATOR=: | TEST_FINDS_EXE=Y Wow, are you telling us we no longer need to dive into `test $ac_x' and things like this? | CC=gcc That's a known problem of

HAVE_FOO or HAVE_WORKING_FOO

2000-06-06 Thread Akim Demaille
There are several macros in Autoconf that are checking whether a function exists and works and set HAVE_FUN accordingly. This is the strategy I adopted when I stole AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS from Jim, although his original macro was defining HAVE_WORKING_GETGROUPS. I think Autoconf should advocate a

Re: mixed native/cross-compiled package howto?

2000-06-06 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hi, | | In a package I'm integrating autoconf into, I need to be able to | support cross-compiling. Specifically, the libraries in the package | will be cross-compiled. However, the package contains a compiler | binary that must be run on the build platform, not the host platform. | This

Re: proposed change to setting of INSTALL (and friends)....

2000-06-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Greg A. Woods writes: It turns out that some versions of *BSD "install" (aka xinstall.c in the 4.4bsd distribution) don't allow '-c' and '-d' at the same time (and strictly speaking none should). Of course this crops up because some authors using Autoconf (and Automake) have the (good, in

Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-06 Thread Mark E.
| TEST_FINDS_EXE=Y Wow, are you telling us we no longer need to dive into `test $ac_x' and things like this? It's a solution designed so we don't have to modify configure scripts, but it's a hack. And it's a DJGPP-only solution, so it doesn't help EMX or any other similiar environment .

Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-06 Thread Akim Demaille
"Mark" == Mark E [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | TEST_FINDS_EXE=Y Wow, are you telling us we no longer need to dive into `test $ac_x' and things like this? Mark It's a solution designed so we don't have to modify configure Mark scripts, but it's a hack. And it's a DJGPP-only solution, so it

Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-06 Thread Mark E.
OK, so we must start working on this. A unified solution is certainly desirable. But perhaps we should find out how urgent a solution to this problem is before you decide to take on this problem for the next release. DJGPP's Bash has a solution (TEST_FINDS_EXE as mentioned), Cygwin (I've

Re: proposed change to setting of INSTALL (and friends)....

2000-06-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, June 6, 2000 at 18:09:13 (+0200), Peter Eisentraut wrote: ] Subject: Re: proposed change to setting of INSTALL (and friends) Greg A. Woods writes: It turns out that some versions of *BSD "install" (aka xinstall.c in the 4.4bsd distribution) don't allow '-c' and '-d' at

Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -8- But after all, maybe just basing our decisions on uname is enough. Yes, this is against the philosophy of Autoconf, but it's better than nothing. And I guess we don't have to fear portability problems with uname, since I suppose the environments

Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Mark E." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: other similiar environment . My preference would be to test for programs using 'prog_to_find${ac_exeext}'. Then somehow figure out when ${ac_exeext} needs to be set without resorting to compiling a program. or at least allow it be set in

Are AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT called by default?

2000-06-06 Thread Mo DeJong
I was looking back at the ChangeLog when I noticed this: 2000-05-23 Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simplify the interface: users shouldn't need to explicitly check for special environments. * acspecific.m4 (AC_EXEEXT, AC_OBJEXT): AU defined to nothing.

International Mail Order Co. needs PT/FT help!

2000-06-06 Thread hewent
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