"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd rather take almost the full range and except AR if we need to.
Alexandre I'd prefer that the maintainers of autoconf weren't so
Alexandre greedy about prefixes :-)
In fact my position (let's take the full range) is also based on a
"Pavel" == Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pavel Autoconf could also check configure with "sh -n" - it may be
Pavel more effective than scanning for macros, although some
Pavel constructs will not be caught.
No really, `sh -n' is way too weak, it can only catch very obvious
mistakes.
-Original Message-
From: Akim Demaille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:58 AM
To: Alexandre Oliva
Cc: Pavel Roskin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Forbidden strings
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:48:33PM -0600, John A. Crow wrote:
: All -
:
: I am using autoconf-2.13.
:
: It looks to me from my experiments that by default the srcdir
: output variable is set to its relative path name. That is, if I do
:
:./configure
:
: I will get @srcdir@ replaced with
-Original Message-
From: Lars J. Aas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 2:11 PM
To: John A. Crow
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: automatic setting of srcdir
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:48:33PM -0600, John A. Crow wrote:
: All -
:
: I am using
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:17:30AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
: On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
: srcdir="`cd $srcdir; pwd`"
:
: there are environments where this doesn't work properly (when $CDPATH is
: set).
Weird. Doesn't autoconf try to disable (unset) $CDPATH?
Anyways,
Hello, Ralf!
# autoconf --add-missing
autoconf: option `--add-missing' requires an argument
It's my bug. I'll fix it. Thank you for the report.
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
On Nov 6, 2000, Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not just prefix the reserved autoconf variables with a `_'
character?
autoconf used to use just AC_/ac_. Now, it's claiming ownership of
all of A?_. That looks a little bit exagerated to me.
--
Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see
--- Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, how about something like a special comment/macro stating what are
the *words* that are allowed. Something like
m4_accept_literals([AR_FLAGS], [lt_cv_AR_FLAGS])
then autoconf.sh would just gather these guys, and say nothing about
them.
