Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.)

2001-10-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Paul Eggert wrote: I think this idea is a blind alley. If we want to use modern shell features, then we should go ahead and require the configure user to have a modern shell. That's much simpler. We've already started down that path with the LINENO changes. Wouldn't this be solvable

Re: Repost: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS problem

2001-10-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
David Snopek wrote: I really need some assistance with this problem, so here is a re-explanation. Here is my directory tree: project/ | |- configure |- configure.in |- src/ | | | ... | |- main.cpp ... | |- libltdl/ | ...

Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.)

2001-10-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:18:13AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: : Paul Eggert wrote: : I think this idea is a blind alley. If we want to use modern shell : features, then we should go ahead and require the configure user to : have a modern shell. That's much simpler. We've already started down

Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.)

2001-10-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Lars J. Aas wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:18:13AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: : Paul Eggert wrote: : I think this idea is a blind alley. If we want to use modern shell : features, then we should go ahead and require the configure user to : have a modern shell. That's much simpler.

autoheader problem

2001-10-22 Thread Wayne F Davis
I'm getting the following error when running autoheader: $ autoheader /usr/bin/autoheader: Symbol `ENABLE_BLOWFISH' is not covered by /usr/share/autoconf/acconfig.h I have the following in my config.h.in: #undef ENABLE_BLOWFISH Shouldn't that fix the problem? Thanks. -- Wayne Davis - [EMAIL

Re: Repost: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS problem

2001-10-22 Thread David Snopek
Earnie Boyd wrote: Are you using Cygwin or are you cross compiling using Linux? It appears to me as if you've used the wrong switch, you want --target not --build. I may be wrong, I've never cross compiled. If you're using Cygwin you need to: CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' configure

Newbie help

2001-10-22 Thread Calvin Arndt
This list seems to be slanted at the seasoned user can someone point me at some newbie type list or resource? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

Re: Newbie help

2001-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:56:46PM -0700, Calvin Arndt wrote: This list seems to be slanted at the seasoned user can someone point me at some newbie type list or resource? try channel #devtools on irc.openprojects.net regards john -- There's only millions that lose their jobs and homes and

Problem with AC_CHECK_FUNC and compaq cxx in strict_ansi mode

2001-10-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hello, I am compiling a C++ program (LyX) with compaq cxx 6.2 in strict ansi mode. It happens that no C functions are found by autoconf 2.52 AC_CHECK_FUNC macro, because the program bug1.C (attached, taken from what autoconf uses) produces: fantomas: cxx -std strict_ansi bug1.C cxx: Error: