Re: Auto-tools Win32 Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-23 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
On 23 May 2001, Tom Tromey wrote: On to your complaints. Martin * Mixing up debug and non debug build, do both causes double Martin compile time, double diskspace and x-time more RAM for the Martin debugger. Imagine to need 10 GB for Openoffice debug build and Martin more than 2GB RAM to

config.guess mailinglist ?

2001-03-06 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
Since config.guess doesn't live in the autoconf source tree anymore, is there also a separate mailing list for questions related to config.guess ? - Or where is it appropriate to ask such questions ? Rasmus - [EMAIL

Re: AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

2001-02-28 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: Rasmus Tamstorf wrote: AC_OUTPUT([src/_$ARCH/Makefile:src/Makefile.in]) You know, there's a much more painless way to do this. Autoconf already knows that if you: mkdir $ARCH cd $ARCH ../configure Then the build tree will be created

Re: AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

2001-02-28 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
. Rasmus Tamstorf wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: Rasmus Tamstorf wrote: AC_OUTPUT([src/_$ARCH/Makefile:src/Makefile.in]) You know, there's a much more painless way to do this. Autoconf already knows that if you: mkdir $ARCH cd $ARCH

Re: AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

2001-02-28 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: --- snip --- Maybe that's not exactly what you wanted, but Autoconf is already set up to handle it. Note that all the source files not generated by configure will still be under topdir/, not topdir/arch?, and a properly constructed Makefile will

AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

2001-02-26 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
Hi, AC_OUTPUT seems a little agressive in terms of optimizing VPATH away from makefiles. Looking at the code in acgeneral.m4 : # VPATH is dangerous, but if there is a colon in the path, we need to # keep it. if test "x$srcdir" = x.; then ac_vpsub=['/^[]*VPATH[

Canonical system names

2001-02-26 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
Hi, On some systems there are more variables which distinguish configurations than simply cpu, vendor and os. On mips and sparc for example you can build 32 or 64 bit code, and on, say, a mips R10K you can build your code using either the mips3 or the mips4 instruction set. What's the "proper"

AC_CONFIGURE_HEADER from subdirectory

2001-02-23 Thread Rasmus Tamstorf
Hi, I'm trying to set up a project that has most of the configuration related files (including configure.ac and acconfig.h) in $SRCDIR/config, but it's causing me some grief, so I'm hoping someone can help me. First off, if I run 'autoconf' from $PROJECT I have to tell it where to find