"Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Akim Have you given a try to my suggestion of
Akim if (PATH=.;`pwd`; conftest.sh); then
Arg, of course you didn't...
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:20:29AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jan 30, 2001, "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
autoconf 2.49c (and the current CVS) fails if '.' is in PATH -
it tries to execute the directory `./m4' when searching m4.
I think the real problem here is
"Tim" == Tim Van Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tim I suppose so. My main point was that there were 2 different
Tim issues related to path separators (build _HOST_), which the PR
Tim didn't seem to take into account.
Personally, at least for the time being, we don't care about HOST: as
said
"Mark" == Mark E [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to advise you that it would be fair not to support
non-UNIX path separators on the build system.
Mark Naturally, I'll have to disagree. I don't see why Autoconf
Mark should care which path separator is used as long as Autoconf can
Mark
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
autoconf 2.49c (and the current CVS) fails if '.' is in PATH - it
tries to execute the directory `./m4' when searching m4.
Alexandre Yet another reason to not name the directory with m4
Alexandre goodies `m4' :-(
Alexandre I vote for
"Derek R. Price" wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jan 30, 2001, "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AS_ESCAPE(m4_quote(AS_MKDIR_P(["sdir"])), [\$`])
The simple rule is that every macro argument should be enclosed in
quotes.
So the above _should_ work and there's a bug in
| "Derek R. Price" wrote:
| Alexandre Oliva wrote:
|
| On Jan 30, 2001, "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
|AS_ESCAPE(m4_quote(AS_MKDIR_P(["sdir"])), [\$`])
|
| The simple rule is that every macro argument should be enclosed in
| quotes.
|
| So the above _should_ work
| Akim,
| stenn@pogo sh
| $ foo=`cd / 2/dev/null`
| $ echo ,$bar,
| ,,
| $ baz=`exit nonsense 2/dev/null`
| $ echo ,$baz,
| ,,
| $
Thanks, but you skipped the most important tests :)
Could you try all of these?
foo=`cd / 2/dev/null`
echo ,$foo,
bar=`cd /foo 2/dev/null`
echo ,$bar,
baz=`exit
Akim Demaille wrote:
| "Derek R. Price" wrote:
| Alexandre Oliva wrote:
|
| On Jan 30, 2001, "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
|AS_ESCAPE(m4_quote(AS_MKDIR_P(["sdir"])), [\$`])
|
| The simple rule is that every macro argument should be enclosed in
| quotes.
|
"Tom" == Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Akim 1. Does Automake need to know what are the files that can
Akim actually be in LIBOBJ, or headers can be included?
Tom Automake wants to know the associated headers as well.
Can there be any
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:09:53PM -0500, Harlan Stenn wrote:
: Akim,
:
: stenn@pogo sh
: $ foo=`cd / 2/dev/null`
: $ echo ,$bar,
: ,,
In case noone else sees it, you assigned to $foo and output $bar, so
the result is naturally empty. You should probably try again without
mixing test 1 and 2
"Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Derek Yeah, sorry. I'm trying to use AS_MKDIR_P in an unescaped
Derek heredoc context. The reason I don't seem to be able to avoid
Derek _that_ is that I want it to happen as part of a step before a
Derek header gets created so I'm passing it
On Jan 31, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
``How stupid configure is not
to check that this executable is not a directory!''.
I'd suggest to fix the second issue :)
Sure, it should be fixed. But you'll probably remember I have always
opposed the idea of having a directory
Akim Demaille wrote:
"Tim" == Tim Van Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tim I suppose so. My main point was that there were 2 different
Tim issues related to path separators (build _HOST_), which the PR
Tim didn't seem to take into account.
Personally, at least for the time being, we
On Jan 30, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if (PATH=.;`pwd`; conftest.sh); then
# We like `;', let's use it.
else if (PATH=.:`pwd`; conftest.sh); then
# We like `:', let's use it.
else
# Get lost.
fi
Hmm... It's just occurred to me that this kind of test may not work
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd suggest to fix the second issue :)
Alexandre Sure, it should be fixed. But you'll probably remember I
Alexandre have always opposed the idea of having a directory named
Alexandre m4.
OK :) I, myself, prefer ac/ :)
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alexandre Hmm... It's just occurred to me that this kind of test may
Alexandre not work in general. AFAIK, some old Unices just won't run
Alexandre shell-scripts like that; you have to explicitly specify the
Alexandre shell that must
On Jan 31, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd suggest to fix the second issue :)
Alexandre Sure, it should be fixed. But you'll probably remember I
Alexandre have always opposed the idea of having a directory named
On Jan 31, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to me that falling to `:' is way enough for this case.
I hope so.
--
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Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
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"Markus" == Markus F X J Oberhumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Markus After a look through the sources it seems that AS_EXECUTABLE_P
Markus should use both "test -f" and "test -x" on systems that
Markus support it, and "test -f" otherwise (DOS, Win, ...)
Good call, I was going to text ! -x.
"Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Akim As noted by Jim, the test suite is really slow since a few days. If
Akim someone has an idea, I'm extremely interested.
Akim Also, does anybody know a means to profile a shell
Akim script?
Process accounting?
"adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Akim Does anybody knows a shell that would provide some means to
Akim denunciates time consumers?
adl You may want to look at the zsh/zprof module of Zsh.
adl Unfortunately this does profiling on shell functions, so that
adl might not be
Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Also, does anybody know a means to profile a shell script?
How about profiling the shell running the script? :)
Lars J
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stenn@porkypine sh
$ foo=`cd / 2/dev/null`
illegal io
$ echo ,$foo,
,,
$ bar=`cd /foo 2/dev/null`
/foo: bad directory
$ echo ,$bar,
,,
$ baz=`exit nonsense 2/dev/null`
nonsense: bad number
$ echo
After a look through the sources it seems that
AS_EXECUTABLE_P should use both "test -f" and
"test -x" on systems that support it, and "test -f"
otherwise (DOS, Win, ...)
Yes and no. The reason we try to use 'test -x' is so that
'test -x foo' will pick up foo.exe. I had not thought of
this
DOES pretend to do)? DJGPP can pretend to be unixy when it comes to pathseps,
but ONLY inside bash (granted, that's where it will matter most, but using ':'
because bash can handle it would break if used inside perl/m4/whatever).
Since the test is run by bash and not by something else it
I can send you the offending configure.in if you like. It's the one
that's checked into the CVS CVS (no, that wasn't a stutter. :). Of
course, I might want to pull my customizations out of my AM first and try
again to make sure that's not causing the problem first, but if someone
else saw
Tim Van Holder wrote:
I can send you the offending configure.in if you like. It's the one
If you mean the AC_TRY_COMMAND() in the test for the BSD VPATH issue,
I tried using
...
No, that one's still working fine. I think this was related to my attempt to
rewrite AM_CONFIG_HEADERS the
"Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Akim Can there be any non source files which we want to ship?
Yes, sometimes. For instance with ansi2knr support we ship the man
page. I don't know whether this impacts autoconf though.
Tom
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