Re: [PATCH] getopt: sync from Automake repository

2012-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/18/2012 07:09 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: * lib/Autom4te/Getopt.am: The master copy of this file has been moved to the Automake repository (see Automake commit 'v1.11-662-g52246cc' 2012-01-18, cmdline parsing: move into a dedicated perl module). So we now we sync it from there, by

Re: [PATCH] build: fix automake error due to missing ChangeLog

2012-01-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/20/2012 10:05 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Apparently, Automake does not accept the '$(srcdir)/ChangeLog' target in Makefile.am as a declaration that ChangeLog is automatically generated (and thus does not need to exist at automake time). One has to use a *literal* 'ChangeLog' target.

Re: [PATCH] build: fix automake error due to missing ChangeLog

2012-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/20/2012 06:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/20/2012 10:05 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Apparently, Automake does not accept the '$(srcdir)/ChangeLog' target in Makefile.am as a declaration that ChangeLog is automatically generated (and thus does not need to exist at automake time). One

Re: [PATCH] getopt: sync from Automake repository

2012-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/20/2012 05:51 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/18/2012 11:09 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: * lib/Autom4te/Getopt.am: The master copy of this file has been moved to the Automake repository (see Automake commit 'v1.11-662-g52246cc' 2012-01-18, cmdline parsing: move into a dedicated perl

configure test involving plugin

2012-01-20 Thread Patrick Welche
glib has a configure test to check whether RTLD_GLOBAL is broken on OSF1. This involves building a plugin using libtool and then essentially AC_RUN_IFELSE on a piece of code which loads said plugin. This is all fine, and works. I was just wondering if there was a way of doing this without

Re: Dealing with compilers that pretend to be GCC

2012-01-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20/01/2012 11:19, Peter Rosin wrote: Dave Korn skrev 2012-01-20 01:15: *snip* That could be tricky because I guess you won't be able to use libtool at configure time. *snip* It's possible to use libtool at configure time, but you need to invoke LT_OUTPUT before you do

Re: bug#10555: automake: wrong use of F77FLAGS instead of FFLAGS?

2012-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/19/2012 02:45 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: [SNIP] So, to all autoconfers: do you happen to know any reason for which Automake should use F77FLAGS? If not, I'll assume that is due to a typo or clerical mistake, and fix it (in 48 hours or so). The attached patch should take care of

Re: Dealing with compilers that pretend to be GCC

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Rosin
Dave Korn skrev 2012-01-20 01:15: *snip* That could be tricky because I guess you won't be able to use libtool at configure time. *snip* It's possible to use libtool at configure time, but you need to invoke LT_OUTPUT before you do so. Or is there a reason for that not to work in