On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 07:40 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
Yes, it was mentioned multiple times in this thread already and it was
always forgotten. Please consider this approach.
The patches I've posted include environment variables too.
One thing was not mentioned here - if there was a
pros: we are able to easily patch also old packages (no-need to
autoreconfigure)
There would still be a long bootstrap period where old tarballs would
not have any way of running a modern config.sub/guess other than copying
them in from the system versions.
I meant that you are able to
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:43 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
I meant that you are able to patch the very small part of
config.guess/config.sub with checking for environmental variables and
thats all - you don't have to touch this package in future. The patched
config.sub is able to call system's
Hey list,
My autotool'd project configure and builds fine. When I run distcheck
target, I notice that some tests fail because it is missing files that
ought to be in 'Tests/'.
I checked my projects Makefile.am and, consistent with what I took from
chapter 14.1 of the manual, I made sure that
On 05/18/2013 05:45 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 16:05 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Yes. It would have been really useful if autofoo used whatever is in
/usr/share/misc, unless there is a config.sub.override or
config.guess.override file in the source directory
On 05/20/2013 01:24 AM, Kip Warner wrote:
Hey list,
My autotool'd project configure and builds fine. When I run distcheck
target, I notice that some tests fail because it is missing files that
ought to be in 'Tests/'.
distcheck is provided by automake, not autoconf; perhaps you'll get
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:37 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
I would MUCH rather see us honor a CONFIG_GUESS and CONFIG_SUB
environment variable, rather than baking in a PATH search. This topic
has come up in the past, where I made the same request back then.
The patch does both and both are needed
On 05/20/2013 09:01 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:37 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
I would MUCH rather see us honor a CONFIG_GUESS and CONFIG_SUB
environment variable, rather than baking in a PATH search. This topic
has come up in the past, where I made the same request back
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 09:11 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/20/2013 09:01 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:37 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
I would MUCH rather see us honor a CONFIG_GUESS and CONFIG_SUB
environment variable, rather than baking in a PATH search. This topic
has
+++ Eric Blake [2013-05-20 09:11 -0600]:
On 05/20/2013 09:01 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:37 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
I would MUCH rather see us honor a CONFIG_GUESS and CONFIG_SUB
environment variable, rather than baking in a PATH search. This topic
has come up in
On 05/20/2013 09:37 AM, Wookey wrote:
+++ Eric Blake [2013-05-20 09:11 -0600]:
On 05/20/2013 09:01 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:37 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
I would MUCH rather see us honor a CONFIG_GUESS and CONFIG_SUB
environment variable, rather than baking in a PATH
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:44 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
distcheck is provided by automake, not autoconf; perhaps you'll get
better answers from the automake list or from reading the automake manual.
Hey Eric. You're right, perhaps the automake mailing list would have
been better. I should also
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote:
Without seeing your actual Makefile.am, I can only guess that perhaps
you made your EXTRA_DIST conditional? I've been bitten by that in some
of my own projects, where a conditional EXTRA_DIST impacts what goes
into the
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
+cc config-patc...@gnu.org, Ben Elliston b...@air.net.au
IME, it is much better when any override mechanism make use of
environment variables.
Yes, it was mentioned multiple times in this thread already and it was
always forgotten. Please
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 23:25 +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
As far as I know, it isn't being conditionally modified. Here's the
Makefile.am:
http://pastebin.com/Ck57h01T
You have
# Manually add these things to distribution package when dist target is run...
EXTRA_DIST =
Authors
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 19:36 -0700, Kip Warner wrote:
Lastly, at the end of my ./configure, I'd like to output a general
summary of parameters the build will be created with. One of those is
whether NLS was enabled. Is there a way to check for $enable_nls without
having to manually define it
Works for me. But we [distros] do want to mandate autoreconf anyway in the
general case: it is the *only* way to keep upstream honest about the much
hated build system not bitrotting until it decides to blow up right when we
need it for a security update.
I know. But there is a lot of
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