Problems with KDE cvs auto* scripts

2001-08-14 Thread Gioele Barabucci
Hi, I have problems with the KDE makefile cvs creation process. A bit of backgroud: KDE uses a common admin dir with standardized scripts and macro to create Makefile for all the various modules and their subdirs. Those scripts are called from a Makefile.common that creates (merging similar

Re: times ?!

2001-08-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
Tim Van Holder wrote: For some reason, the generated tests/testsuite contains times at-times all over the place. What is times? I can't find it, and it isn't a /bin/sh builtin.. I think it's a bash builtin which reports the elapsed time of all processes in the current shell.

passing configure options via AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS

2001-08-14 Thread Paul Martinolich
I have a configure.ac in which I conditionally configure additional sources that have their own ./configure scripts. Using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS works great. But, now I'd like to pass some configure options that I don't use in my top-level configure. How can I pass these to the individual

Re: copyright notice on the 'INSTALL' file (proposed autoconf patch)

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Stallman
It's currently 226 lines, 1366 words, and 9221 bytes. At that size, it may as well have a simple permissive license, as you suggested. However, the wording should be different: Copying and distribution of verbatim and modified versions of this file is permitted in any medium

Re: copyright notice on the 'INSTALL' file (proposed autoconf patch)

2001-08-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:17:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] At that size, it may as well have a simple permissive license, as you suggested. However, the wording should be different: OK, here's a revised patch to 'autoconf' that uses the different wording. I think

'make-stds.texi' copyright notice (needed for autoconf, make)

2001-08-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:17:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for make-stds.texi, we probably want that to be under the GFDL alone. OK, here is a proposed patch to do that. I got the copyright dates by inspecting the gnu.org history for make-stds.texi and

freshmeat project listing for Autoconf

2001-08-14 Thread jeff covey
I'm writing in reference to your project Autoconf. Since the time you submitted this project to us, freshmeat has adopted a new categorization system which allows much more fine-grained organization of projects. Since your project has never been recategorized under this system, our readers

Re: 'make-stds.texi' copyright notice (needed for autoconf, make)

2001-08-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pe I will CC: this message to the GNU make maintainer as a reminder pe that the GNU 'make' documentation also needs to be put under the pe GFDL. I've already done this as per a message RMS sent out a few months ago. Not in CVS yet, I know :(.