Re: cascading variable resolution in AC_SUBST

2001-10-04 Thread Tim Van Holder
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 19:25, David Oleszkiewicz wrote: so i want to do something like this configure.in: PROGNAME = foo DIR = ${bindir}/${PROG} AC_SUBST(DIR) myfile.h.in: #define DIR @DIR@ when things resolve out to myfile.h i get #define CONF_DIR ${exec_prefix}/foo this is

Re: cascading variable resolution in AC_SUBST

2001-10-04 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, David Oleszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so i want to do something like this configure.in: PROGNAME = foo DIR = ${bindir}/${PROG} AC_SUBST(DIR) myfile.h.in: #define DIR @DIR@ when things resolve out to myfile.h i get #define CONF_DIR ${exec_prefix}/foo Look at the GNU

Re: cascading variable resolution in AC_SUBST

2001-10-04 Thread Akim Demaille
Raja == Raja R Harinath Raja writes: Raja Hi, David Oleszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so i want to do something like this configure.in: PROGNAME = foo DIR = ${bindir}/${PROG} AC_SUBST(DIR) myfile.h.in: #define DIR @DIR@ when things resolve out to myfile.h i get #define CONF_DIR

AW: Ebcdic rule

2001-10-04 Thread Pfeiffer Daniel
Hallo Paul, Der Name klingt deutsch, aber wegen des CCs auf englisch: -- Von: Paul Eggert[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Oktober 2001 19:40 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Ebcdic rule From: Pfeiffer Daniel [EMAIL

Re: Ebcdic rule

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:52:11PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Autoconf is merely a tool for configuring source code for UNIX-like systems. That problem is hard enough. I didn't realize that DOS and NT were considered UNIX-like systems. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule)

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:52:03AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: From: Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't realize that DOS and NT were considered UNIX-like systems. [deleted] My understanding is that bare DOS is not UNIX-like, but it gets reasonably UNIX-like if you add enough 3rd-party

Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule)

2001-10-04 Thread Paul Eggert
From: Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:40:50 -0700 Does that mean that autoconf should limit itself to the POSIX portable file name character set? Of course. If Autoconf uses non-POSIX file names (other than as part of a test for file name portability, or after such

Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule)

2001-10-04 Thread Paul Eggert
From: Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:40:50 -0700 My understanding is that bare DOS is not UNIX-like, but it gets reasonably UNIX-like if you add enough 3rd-party software. Similarly for NT. And so can EBCDIC based systems. I'm not opposed to using Autoconf

Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule)

2001-10-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
Paul Eggert wrote: From: Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:40:50 -0700 Does that mean that autoconf should limit itself to the POSIX portable file name character set? Of course. If Autoconf uses non-POSIX file names (other than as part of a test for file name