Re: What Automake are we using?

2000-09-21 Thread Akim Demaille
"Pavel" == Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pavel Hello! What version of Automake are we using to rebuild Pavel Makefile.in's? Pavel It must be a modified version since the stock Automake Pavel hardcodes "gtar" and has a bug in the "distdir" target. I use ``stock'' Automake 1.4 from

Call for help on improving the documentation

2000-09-21 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi People, We are heading slowly towards the 2.50 release. There are still many small details to fix in Autoconf, in particular the test suite which Pavel is quickly improving. I think it is reasonable to aim at 2.49b, a widely advertised beta, for the next couple of weeks. Before 2.50, it

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Akim Demaille writes: "Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of Russ incoming messages be turned off? It should be ok by now. I liked it... :-( -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Portability of mv -f

2000-09-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted interactivity. Otherwise, it should be replaced with "rm -f" and "cp". Related question - how portable is "mv" across mount points, i.e. between $TMPDIR and

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Ossama Othman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Akim Demaille writes: "Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of Russ incoming messages be turned off? It should be ok by now. I liked

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:17:18AM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: : On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: : Akim Demaille writes: : :"Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Russ Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of :

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:17:18AM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: | : On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: | : Akim Demaille writes: | : | :"Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | : | : Russ Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Ossama Othman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:45:24PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: | : I liked it... :-( | : | : As did I. :-( | | I didn't. :-/ Stop growing this series of replies ;) Right! :-) Out of curiosity, are you guys receiving duplicate e-mails from the list? I seem to be getting two copies

Meta list issue: duplicates (was: subject prefixes)

2000-09-21 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:54:59AM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: : Out of curiosity, are you guys receiving duplicate e-mails from the : list? I seem to be getting two copies of each e-mail sent from all of : the GNU lists I'm subscribed to. On the Guile user list, I've in the last couple of days

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Ben
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Akim Demaille writes: "Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of Russ incoming messages be turned off? It should be ok by now.

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of curiosity, are you guys receiving duplicate e-mails from the list? I seem to be getting two copies of each e-mail sent from all of the GNU lists I'm subscribed to. Not all. Only some. Akim's posts are being repeated. Cheers, = ---

Autoupdate doesn't like AC_LINK_FILES

2000-09-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I tried to run autoupdate on the following configure.in AC_INIT AC_LINK_FILES(a, b) AC_OUTPUT and it printed: /tmp/au9096/input.m4:45: /usr/bin/m4: Non-numeric argument to built-in `0@0@h' /tmp/au9096/input.m4:45: /usr/bin/m4: Cannot open [/tmp/au9096/disable.m4]: No such file or

Support for non-gcc make dependency files

2000-09-21 Thread Robert Boehne
I'd like to have Autoconf generate makefile dependencies for compilers other than gcc, but I'm not familiar with the autoconf source enough to find where it is done. Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction? -- Robert Boehne Software Engineer Ricardo Software

Re: Call for help on improving the documentation

2000-09-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a pity that the Autoconf documentation gives hint about broken functions only for functions that have their own AC_FUNC_FOO, likewise for headers. If you know a function which should be AC_CHECK_FUNC'd or AC_REPLACE_FUNC'd, please, submit so

Re: Portability of mv -f

2000-09-21 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
From: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 Sep 2000 18:10:18 -0700 I believe that mv -f is fully portable. I think the only portable options to mv are -f and -i. I know that cp -f definitely *isn't* portable. I forget where it misbehaved, but it was a bug report against