Re: checking for Berkley db 4.2 -- 4.3 upgrade

2005-07-27 Thread Mike Castle
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Steingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Berkley db changed prototypes for functions that are struct members. how do I check for that? The official word from Sleepycat is that it's much better to statically link against a known version of BDB that you ship with your

Re: make distcheck arguments

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Castle
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Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

2003-03-03 Thread Mike Castle
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When building from source, one rarely changes needs to make patches to configure.{in,ac} and then run autotools*. That depends on your definition of rarely. Of the 550 packages that I

Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

2003-03-03 Thread Mike Castle
happen with any vendors installed autoconf. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc

Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

2003-02-28 Thread Mike Castle
to autoconf. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc

Re: Library linking problem

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Castle
for help in a Linux specific discussion area (or pester a local guru). Good luck, mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc

Re: Library linking problem

2003-02-17 Thread Mike Castle
tests for the existence of libgsl just compile or does it run as well? If it doesn't run, that could explain the situation here. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You

AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Castle
I see that a lot of packages (bison, for example) use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT. Yet, this isn't documented anywhere. Should maintainers be using AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT? If so, should they be using AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT or $ac_includes_default. And, should it be documented? mrc -- Mike Castle

Re: autoscan and AC_CHECK_DECLS

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Castle
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. Strange interactions with autoscan and autom4te.cache. And a possible bug in autoscan otherwise. Hmmm. The following patch seems to improve my system a little bit. But I'm not certain if they are correct. Looks like

autoscan and AC_CHECK_DECLS

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Castle
]~/foo(215) autoscan -V autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. So, why different results after nuking autom4te.cache? Also, why is it bitching about sys_siglist? Thanks, mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We

Re: AC_DEFINE questions

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Castle
values at runtime. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc

Re: AC_DEFINE questions

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Castle
in updating your autoconf stuff. Your developers and configuration manager should be. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all

Re: Bad configure scripts generated with Autoconf 2.52 and 2.53

2002-04-11 Thread Mike Castle
configure.in for you. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc

Re: Ebcdic rule

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:52:11PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Autoconf is merely a tool for configuring source code for UNIX-like systems. That problem is hard enough. I didn't realize that DOS and NT were considered UNIX-like systems. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule)

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:52:03AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: From: Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't realize that DOS and NT were considered UNIX-like systems. [deleted] My understanding is that bare DOS is not UNIX-like, but it gets reasonably UNIX-like if you add enough 3rd-party

Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN vs. Darwin

2001-06-25 Thread Mike Castle
programming. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc

Re: Auto-tools Win32 Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:37:22AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Mike Castle writes: How do you reference the generated make file? include $(top_builddir)/Makefile.global This requires that you set top_builddir somewhere. Well, that's the magic I was wondering about. :- What

Re: Auto-tools Win32 Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Castle
about problems building outside of the source tree. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living

Re: how to use libraries in /usr/local

2001-05-22 Thread Mike Castle
-- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen

Re: Rename atomicity

2001-03-05 Thread Mike Castle
(for performance reasons, rename was not made atomic). mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living

Re: Should the C++ sourcefile extension be changed?

2000-09-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:01:09PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: I believe it would be more constructive to make M$VC accept .cc extention is some non-interactive way. Anybody knows how? $(CP) foo.cc foo.cpp $(CC) foo.cpp ? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work

Re: HTML format documentation

2000-09-09 Thread Mike Castle
time you update them, it's easier to just link them statically. Also, if an upgrade goes bad and /lib gets hosed (running out of disk space for instance), you're possibly stuck with an unusuable system. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL

Re: Why does ./configure not set prefix and exec_prefix?

2000-07-19 Thread Mike Castle
hunting, and you want to build for, say /usr/local/test instead of /usr/local. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc

Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Castle
that still give you a false answer? Of course, I'd argue that programs should be written so that endianness doesn't matter. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda

Re: Autoconf 2.14 breaks certain uses of configure

2000-06-27 Thread Mike Castle
ment. One problem at a time. However, I must say, I do NOT like it changing "i386-linux" to "i386-pc-linux-gnu". That is not what I typed in. If I want to override it, I want to damn well override it. mrc On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:39:47AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:

Re: Autoconf 2.14 breaks certain uses of configure

2000-06-27 Thread Mike Castle
nux-gnu checking target system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us liv

Re: build/host/target?

2000-06-24 Thread Mike Castle
system is no longer supported? If so, I'd have to say, this kinda sucks. I have a bunch of scripts that I use to build packages that I will have to change. Not to mention, it goes against the history of autoconf, and all previous documention. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock