Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf

2001-04-12 Thread Akim Demaille
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre On Apr 11, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are about to write new tools, typically autom4te, on top of which autoheader, autoconf etc. will be rewritten. I'm fed up with addressing portability issues on the

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 12, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aux means nothing and is not portable. auxdir is puke puke puke Agreed. I still like AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR better than AC_CONFIG_CONFIGDIR or AC_CONFIG_CFGDIR. I do too. Akim has already given examples of

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-12 Thread Akim Demaille
"Earnie" == Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Earnie Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 12, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aux means nothing and is not portable. auxdir is puke puke puke Agreed. I still like AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR better than AC_CONFIG_CONFIGDIR or

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Akim Demaille wrote: "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Earnie Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 12, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aux means nothing and is not portable. auxdir is puke puke puke Agreed. I still like AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR better than

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Akim Demaille wrote: "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Earnie Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 12, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aux means nothing and is not portable. auxdir is puke puke puke Agreed. I still like AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR better than

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 12, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are we talking about the same thing? I'm referring to where mkinstalldirs, config.guess, etc. will be instead of the top level... Yeah. What do mkinstalldirs, install-sh, missing, depcomp, ylwrap, etc have to do with config? They're

$(YACC) on Linux

2001-04-12 Thread Vaclav Barta
Hi, I have a program (http://www.locus.cz/locus/) I'd like to autoconfiscate. Among other interesting complications, it has a couple of parsers generated with bison flex. As far as I understand autoconf+automake (I *think* I'm asking about autoconf, but even about that I'm not sure), the

Re: $(YACC) on Linux

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Vaclav Barta writes: I can define YFLAGS = -d in my Makefile.am and it will work on my machine. What I'd like to ask, is, of course: is this the right, autoconf-sanctioned, portable thing to do? And even better - would it be possible to fix autoconf to handle this possibility? This is an

autoconf 2.13 and failing tests.

2001-04-12 Thread anthony stuckey
Long story, because I'm not actually sure how to even report this to get it fixed. Autoconf 2.1.3 as shipped by Apple in MacOS X seems to include macros that do not test for malloc() properly, causing test failures. [localhost:/usr/bin] stuckey% ./autoconf --version Autoconf

AC_LIBOBJ_DECL?

2001-04-12 Thread Steven G. Johnson
This macro is documented in the manual but I can't seem to find it in the source. Is it obsolete? Steven

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-12 Thread Akim Demaille
Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre On Apr 11, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that we want to promote config/ Alexandre Who's we? Well, I for one, and it was something that arose a certain of times. I do believe Gary too is one of the