Re: Patch proposal: Add --clean options to unbootstrap a project.

2007-06-18 Thread Benoit Sigoure
Quoting Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Benoit, * Benoit Sigoure wrote on Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:16:35AM CEST: I've reviewed the patches I proposed back in March, completed them with tests, ChangeLog and NEWS entries. If they are accepted, I'll write the documentation. Please

Re: Determine Data Root Directoy in code

2007-06-18 Thread jeshuabratman
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Does this help? http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Defining-Directories.html Cheers, Ralf Yeah! That helped alot. Thanks, Jeshua -- View this message in context:

Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

2007-06-18 Thread K. Richard Pixley
I notice that automake is currently generating Makefiles that violate the gnu coding conventions. Specifically, it's generating rules for rebuilding Makefile from Makefile.in and Makefile.in from Makefile.am which requires automake. And yet the gnu coding standards specify: The

Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

2007-06-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:27 -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: My question today is... is there any hope of bringing automake generated Makefiles back into line with the GNU coding standards so that these applications will work once again? Use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in your package; this will

Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

2007-06-18 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Bob Proulx wrote: K. Richard Pixley wrote: I notice that automake is currently generating Makefiles that violate the gnu coding conventions. Hmm... I don't think that automake violates the standards. In the normal case it is not required to have automake installed. Someone who is

Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

2007-06-18 Thread Brian Dessent
K. Richard Pixley wrote: even be interested in regenerationg Makefile.in's automagically. As is, typical builders, (ie, not maintainers), are required to install automake in order to build packages requiring automake. I think you're generalizing this to a degree that's not the case. Most

Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, K. Richard Pixley wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Are we talking about one of your own projects? Or are we talking about other projects that you are trying to build? Projects that I'm trying to build. Hundreds of them. Projects that won't be fixed in their current