Re: Non-recursive makefiles

2006-06-05 Thread Stefan Puiu
Hi, On 6/6/06, Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, that's one of those cases I'd prefer to call "urban legends" of "flat makefiles". Yes, in an ideal world, a flat makefile can take all dependencies. But in real world a complex package consists of more or less independent subpackage

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ralf, * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:44:00AM CEST: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:15 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d is now available. > > > > This is a beta release, intended to be largely identical to 2.60, > > to be released very soon, if no

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If something has crept into automake that makes gmake necessary for > VPATH-builds, I'd call this an automake regression. Yes, the wording in NEWS was too strong. Thanks for reporting that. However, the underlying theme that people should stay away f

Re: Non-recursive makefiles

2006-06-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 12:23 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2006, Stefan Puiu wrote: > > However, people haven't mentioned yet the main point in Peter Miller's > > paper - dependency handling, which I think is very important Well, that's one of those cases I'd prefer to call "urban l

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:15 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d is now available. > > This is a beta release, intended to be largely identical to 2.60, > to be released very soon, if no unexpected issues turn up. So test it > now, use it with your code, and report any

GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d is now available. This is a beta release, intended to be largely identical to 2.60, to be released very soon, if no unexpected issues turn up. So test it now, use it with your code, and report any remaining issues, please! The important changes since 2.59c are l