Re: autoconfiscating getopt_long()...

2000-12-06 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
"Matthew" == Matthew Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew What I have done so far (and it seems to work), is to Matthew copy getopt.c and getopt.h to getopt_long.c and Matthew getopt_long.h, and then to use the following snippets: Matthew configure.in: Matthew

Re: FYI: `Document' qnx (Was: Various systems)

2000-12-06 Thread Akim Demaille
"Pavel" == Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pavel I'm worried about the political side of the problem. Once QNX Pavel is there other people will want to put other OS'es into the Pavel manual. That's definitely my wish! Pavel The problem is that the documentation for programs,

Re: FYI: `Document' qnx (Was: Various systems)

2000-12-06 Thread Daniele Arena
Akim, If you allow me a word as a complete outsider, I personally think that your wish to maintain documentation for every OS is extremely nice and denotes a lot of courage, because maintaining such a thing can be hell. I think this is Pavel's point: that this effort can fade in time, and we

Re: Shell crash on SunOS 4.1.3

2000-12-06 Thread Akim Demaille
"Torbjorn" == Torbjorn Granlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Torbjorn Running configure from the current GMP working sources, Torbjorn SunOS 4.1.3 /bin/sh catches a segfault. Thanks a lot. I'm working on it, which means I first try to get this *(*£$ test suite work properly on SunOS. I don't

Re: OpenBSD 2.7

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Akim! | Now we have this in the top-level Makefile.am: | | # Follow the version number changes. | $(bin_SCRIPTS): configure.in | | When BSD make scans for rules to make autoconf it picks the explicit rule | first, but it's empty. I believe that there is no way to use the suffix

config.guess Linux overhaul

2000-12-06 Thread Ben Elliston
It's that time again. The config.guess script is losing on GNU/Linux and this time, I'm going to fix it. Background: on many GNU/Linux systems, config.guess uses the output of `ld --help' to determine which architecture, object file format and C library version the build system uses. The

FYI: Egrep and test suite (Was: FYI: AS_EXIT)

2000-12-06 Thread Akim Demaille
Daniele, I've just killed another suspicious part of the test suite which might be responsible for a big part of the failures we observed. Would it be possible that you run it again? The ``bad'' news is that I couldn't find in your logs the error messages `egrep' should have printed. One hope

Re: FYI: Egrep and test suite (Was: FYI: AS_EXIT)

2000-12-06 Thread Akim Demaille
"Daniele" == Daniele Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniele Sorry, I really can't run it right now, my schedule is *too* Daniele tight. As soon as I have some spare minutes, I'll do Daniele it. Maybe not before next week, though. Sorry.:( OK, no problems. Thanks for your efforts anyway!

Autoconf 2.49b

2000-12-06 Thread Akim Demaille
[I will post this announcement on gnu.utils.bug tomorrow, unless someone beats me. I'm waiting for the snapshot to be available to do that.] A snapshot of CVS Autoconf is available at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.49b.tar.gz There are a few pending issues that will have

Re: autoconfiscating getopt_long()...

2000-12-06 Thread Matthew Whitworth
On 2000.12.06 02:04:35 -0800 Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Does someone here handle the FreeBSD case in some way? What about: AC_CHECK_FUNCS([getopt_long],, [#FreeBSD has a gnugetopt library for this: AC_CHECK_LIB([gnugetopt],[getopt_long], [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_GETOPT_LONG])], [# use the gnu

Re: autoconfiscating getopt_long()...

2000-12-06 Thread Matthew Whitworth
On 2000.12.06 02:04:35 -0800 Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: PS: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2000-09/msg00036.html Okay, here's the quote to end all quotes from the follow-up to the automake URL you sent me. - From http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2000-09/msg00039.html: I

Re: config.guess Linux overhaul

2000-12-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 6, 2000, Ben Elliston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Background: on many GNU/Linux systems, config.guess uses the output of `ld --help' to determine which architecture, object file format and C library version the build system uses. Instead, I am seeking to replace this cruft with a