Re: If-statement influencing syntax/content in config.h? Naming convention for preprocessor variables.

2010-05-03 Thread Lukas Kaser
Hi Eric, thanks for your detailed answer! Autoconfs behaviour makes complete sense to me now. Really happy with it. I would like to ensure if you mean with If you follow recommended practice of not installing config.h not to distribute config.h. Am I right? I didn't implement the (any) make

Re: If-statement influencing syntax/content in config.h? Naming convention for preprocessor variables.

2010-05-03 Thread Eric Blake
[please don't top-post on technical lists] On 05/03/2010 11:02 AM, Lukas Kaser wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for your detailed answer! Autoconfs behaviour makes complete sense to me now. Really happy with it. I would like to ensure if you mean with If you follow recommended practice of not

Best practices for autotools

2010-05-03 Thread Lukas Kaser
Dear List, since some weeks I'm working with autotools and I am wondering if some experienced users/developers wrote about best practices with this tools. Some guideline through the whole process up to packing could help me understanding in which problems I could run in before I do it. I hope it

Re: AC_PROG_CXX behaviour when no C++ compiler is found

2010-05-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, to add a few more data points here. * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, May 02, 2010 at 09:18:42PM CEST: Ralf writes in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2010-05/msg3.html: AC_PROG_CXX does not abort the configure script if it not expanded before, say, AC_PROG_CC IMO

Re: Best practices for autotools

2010-05-03 Thread Joel J. Adamson
Lukas == Lukas Kaser lukas.ka...@googlemail.com writes: Until now I found http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/autotools-practices.xml Thanks for alerting me to this article: I look forward to reading it. I would also like to read more articles that anyone on the list can suggest;

Re: Best practices for autotools

2010-05-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Monday 03 May 2010, Lukas Kaser lukas.ka...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear List, since some weeks I'm working with autotools and I am wondering if some experienced users/developers wrote about best practices with this tools. Some guideline through the whole process up to packing could help

Re: Best practices for autotools

2010-05-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 3 May 2010, Lukas Kaser wrote: since some weeks I'm working with autotools and I am wondering if some experienced users/developers wrote about best practices with this tools. Some guideline through the whole process up to packing could The most important practice is that 'make

Re: Best practices for autotools

2010-05-03 Thread Matěj Týč
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:38 +0200, Lukas Kaser wrote: Dear List, since some weeks I'm working with autotools and I am wondering if some experienced users/developers wrote about best practices with this tools. Some guideline through the whole process up to packing could help me understanding

Re: Best practices for autotools

2010-05-03 Thread Diego Saravia
http://sourceware.org/autobook/ 2010/5/3 Matěj Týč matej@gmail.com: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:38 +0200, Lukas Kaser wrote: Dear List, since some weeks I'm working with autotools and I am wondering if some experienced users/developers wrote about best practices with this tools. Some