Re: Testing platform

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello David, * Dr. David Kirkby wrote on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:53:01PM CEST: > I've got this bit of code, which checks for 'bash'. The user does > not need to use the bash shell, but many scripts assume the back > shell and will fail otherwise (no, I did not write them myself!) The first questi

Re: Testing platform

2009-10-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I've got this bit of code, which checks for 'bash'. The user does not need to use the bash shell, but many scripts assume the back shell and will fail otherwise (no, I did not write them myself!) What I mean is, many scripts will assume the bash shell is somewhere in t

Testing platform

2009-10-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I've got this bit of code, which checks for 'bash'. The user does not need to use the bash shell, but many scripts assume the back shell and will fail otherwise (no, I did not write them myself!) Feel free to tell me how to criticise/improve this if you can. AC_CHECK_PROG(foobar,bash,[yes],[no

Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:18:58PM CEST: > If even one warning message is evident at the end of the configure > run, it seems likely that the user will know to scroll back to see > the rest. Unless, of course, that rest is so long that the user won't read it all. There are

Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

2009-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:59:18PM CEST: It would be good if autoconf provided an official way to produce deferred accumulated warning text displayed the end of the configure run. What measure would you suggest for the case

Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:59:18PM CEST: > > It would be good if autoconf provided an official way to produce > deferred accumulated warning text displayed the end of the configure > run. What measure would you suggest for the case where more than a screenful of deferred m

Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

2009-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Ben Pfaff wrote: One way to make it more likely that a user will see your warning is to output it at the end of the configure script, after all of the tests have completed. Yes, this is usually the only bit of configure output that users will ever look at, and just becaus

Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Dr. David Kirkby" writes: > If one runs a configure script, and it needs to show a warning for > some reason, that could be missed by someone quite easily. Is there a > way I could insert a 10s or so pause, so it becomes more obvious, and > they hopefully take time to read the warning? One way

Re: cache variable documentation -- patch to correctly document ac_cv_search_FUNC

2009-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Breitenlohner on 10/14/2009 4:24 AM: > > here now another patch correcting the description for ac_cv_search_FUNC. Thanks; I squashed the two fixes into one commit, added a ChangeLog, and applied. - -- Don't work too hard, make som

Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

2009-10-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 October 2009 04:35:22 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > If one runs a configure script, and it needs to show a warning for some > reason, that could be missed by someone quite easily. Is there a way I > could insert a 10s or so pause, so it becomes more obvious, and they > hopefully take tim

Is there a way to insert a short pause?

2009-10-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
If one runs a configure script, and it needs to show a warning for some reason, that could be missed by someone quite easily. Is there a way I could insert a 10s or so pause, so it becomes more obvious, and they hopefully take time to read the warning?