Richard Stallman writes:
I think we need to ask the community of developers what they would
think of this change. It sounds good, but it could have pitfalls
we have not thought of.
Would someone like to do that?
I dislike the idea of this kind of hard coding. I'd much rather use
%% Alex Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ah Richard Stallman writes:
I think we need to ask the community of developers what they would
think of this change. It sounds good, but it could have pitfalls
we have not thought of.
Would someone like to do that?
ah I dislike the
[ On Thursday, August 31, 2000 at 19:20:47 (+0200), Peter Eisentraut wrote: ]
Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
Richard Stallman writes:
If prefix is `/usr', use `/etc'.
Otherwise, use $(prefix)/config.
I hope not. Hard-coded exceptions are the path to insanity. :)
So
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes:
gaw This nonsense of giving the user ultimate and complete control
gaw over where each and every individual class of files, while at the
gaw same time not learning and honouring platform specific policies
gaw for the defaults (i.e. choosing
Hello, Thomas!
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:50:48PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
4) Somebody has already been confused by an unquoted plus while having
problems with ncurses headers.
...but we never did find the root cause -- but found some
--- "Greg A. Woods" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ On , September 1, 2000 at 09:30:27 (-0400), Paul D. Smith wrote: ]
Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
I say just leave the sysconfdir default as ${prefix}/etc (or whatever).
The problem with that is still that $(prefix)/etc is not
Hello!
This line needs to be rewritten so that it works both with autoconf-2.13
and autoconf-2.49a and causes no warnings from Autoconf:
AC_MSG_CHECKING(extra library \"$i\")
$i needs to be expanded, quotes need to be printed.
Is it possible at all, or there is no such thing as portable
[ On , September 1, 2000 at 11:13:04 (-0400), Paul D. Smith wrote: ]
Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
No. This is exactly the right way to do it.
Autoconf should provide a well-defined set of directories, each with a
well-defined purpose/policy, and each with a default value based
On Sep 1, 2000, Morten Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Boehne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From what I have read about libtool it cannot handle C++ shared
libs. [...]
Well, it works for us (http://www.coin3d.org) with a number of large
and complex C++ libraries. (We're using Libtool
On Sep 1, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
[ On , September 1, 2000 at 09:30:27 (-0400), Paul D. Smith wrote: ]
Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
I say just leave the sysconfdir default as ${prefix}/etc (or whatever).
The problem with that is still that $(prefix)/etc
On Sep 1, 2000, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This line needs to be rewritten so that it works both with autoconf-2.13
and autoconf-2.49a and causes no warnings from Autoconf:
AC_MSG_CHECKING(extra library \"$i\")
It should work with both. What's the problem people are finding?
On Aug 31, 2000, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I propose a new item to the TODO list (for after 2.50):
Check if the compiler returns a failure status when asked to #include a
non-existent file. If it does, don't check stderr from cpp, only check the
exit status.
Hello, Alexandre!
This line needs to be rewritten so that it works both with autoconf-2.13
and autoconf-2.49a and causes no warnings from Autoconf:
AC_MSG_CHECKING(extra library \"$i\")
It should work with both. What's the problem people are finding?
This statement causes a warning
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I would like to see support for a "config" subdirectory that would
allow developers to stuff install-sh, config.sub, config.guess aclocal.m4,
ac.m4, etc in one place.
This would require fix to AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS so that it searches for
install-sh in not only the directories listed, but a
Paul D Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes:
gaw This nonsense of giving the user ultimate and complete control
gaw over where each and every individual class of files, while at the
gaw same time not learning and honouring platform specific
Are all of the relevant developers subscribed to the gnu-prog list,
No. We need to talk to a larger group.
How would one
best measure the responses?
Not by counting who thinks what, but by seeing what problems people
mention and then judging how severe they are and what could be
So prefix=/usr leads to syconfidir=/etc, but prefix=/usr/gnu (not my
idea) leads to sysconfdir=/usr/gnu/config? Ugh.
This nonuniformity is precisely the intent. When prefix is a
subdirectory of /usr, such as /usr/local, people are likely to be
unhappy with installing the configuration
On Sep 2, 2000, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So prefix=/usr leads to syconfidir=/etc, but prefix=/usr/gnu (not my
idea) leads to sysconfdir=/usr/gnu/config? Ugh.
This nonuniformity is precisely the intent. When prefix is a
subdirectory of /usr, such as /usr/local,
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