Re: Jack Bryans: Re: [ntp:bugs] NeXT vs k25 w/patch

2001-08-29 Thread Akim Demaille
Ben, this is again for you. -- autoconf (config.guess) doesn't seem to autodetect NeXT. Jack has the box - if folks have suggestions on how we can fix this it would be appreciated. H From: Jack Bryans [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bad autom4te call by autoconf ?

2001-08-29 Thread Akim Demaille
I'm seriously thinking your Perl is too old for us. Is it possible for you to upgrade it and try again? Otherwise try to paste the following file into lib/Autom4te: Long.pm and perl -pi.bak -e 's/Getopt::Long/Autom4te::Long/g' bin/*.in

Re: RFC: 59-autom4te-cfg.patch

2001-08-29 Thread Akim Demaille
I'm applying this patch, but I am still expecting some feedback. -- I now consider Autotest is really usable: its users no longer need to deal with hard coded paths etc. I am not willing to open autom4te.cfg to users yet, but

Re: RFC: Autom4te: defining M4 sets

2001-08-29 Thread Tim Van Holder
On 27 Aug 2001 13:08:29 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: I don't understand well how it would restrict anything. It does promote some naming conventions, which is indeed something I'm pushing for, but --mode will always be stronger than patterns. OK - guess I was overreacting. | arguments:

Re: RFC: 59-autom4te-cfg.patch

2001-08-29 Thread Tim Van Holder
On 29 Aug 2001 11:08:09 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: So what is needed is a means to *extend* a language with additional flags. Something like $top_srcdir/autom4te.cfg seems fine. Does it? Seems fine indeed. Similarly, ~/.autom4te.cfg seems quite logical. OTOH, this might be the

Configure.in migration facility

2001-08-29 Thread John Poltorak
I understand that Autoconf v2.50 does not work with a number of older apps because it is not backwardly compatible with v2.13. To avoid needing two versions of Autoconf installed, is there anything like a migration facility which would convert old configure.in files to a format suitable for

Re: Configure.in migration facility

2001-08-29 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
John == John Poltorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To avoid needing two versions of Autoconf installed, is there anything like a migration facility which would convert old configure.in files to a format suitable for v2.50? Or alternatively, will v2.50+ be updated to provide backward

Re: Configure.in migration facility

2001-08-29 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 15:30, John Poltorak wrote: I understand that Autoconf v2.50 does not work with a number of older apps because it is not backwardly compatible with v2.13. To avoid needing two versions of Autoconf installed, is there anything like a migration facility which would

Re: Algol 68 (was: RFI: Trailing blanks)

2001-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
From: Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 Aug 2001 13:09:46 +0200 Paul The is my own invention, but the t came from the source Paul code of the ALGOL68C compiler, written by Steve Bourne (of Paul Bourne shell fame), Is there is any place where I could actually make my education

Re: Jack Bryans: Re: [ntp:bugs] NeXT vs k25 w/patch

2001-08-29 Thread Ben Elliston
Akim == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akim autoconf (config.guess) doesn't seem to autodetect NeXT. Akim Jack has the box - if folks have suggestions on how we can fix this it Akim would be appreciated. This is a fairly recently introduced bug in config.guess :-(. Another NeXT