Re: DejaGnu test directory layout

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:44:31PM CEST: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Reuben Thomas wrote: From the DejaGnu manual: DejaGnu require the directory be named `testsuite'. Automake by default makes dejagnu look for the config and ${TOOL}.test directories in the

Re: DejaGnu test directory layout

2008-08-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:44:31PM CEST: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Reuben Thomas wrote: From the DejaGnu manual: DejaGnu require the directory be named `testsuite'. Automake by default makes dejagnu look for the

Re: DejaGnu test directory layout

2008-08-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Reuben Thomas wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:20:38AM CEST: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Not sure what the result of both your messages combined is. Care to formulate it as a patch against the manual? I'm not proposing a fix,

Makefile.in in subdir not generated

2008-08-21 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
Versions: 1.10, 1.10.1 `automake' arguments always was: --gnu (This seems to not matter.) Have a package with at least 1 subdirectory. `Makefile.in' files of said package in both its top source directory and its subdirectories are generated by `automake' as above. They include targets to

patch: Makefile.in in subdir not generated

2008-08-21 Thread Ilya N. Golubev
Described what is fixing here in Makefile.in in subdir not generated posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on generated ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Patched 1.10.1 as follows. * lib/am/configure.am (%MAKEFILE-IN%): Fixed `exit'ing before invoking `$(AUTOMAKE)' if prerequisite other then

Re: Warn: non-POSIX variable name

2008-08-21 Thread Steven Woody
Thanks! On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Peter Johansson wrote on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:23:10AM CEST: Steven Woody wrote: 2. What's the difference between @varname@ and $(varname) in a Makefile.am? I noted you use many @@ I think the

Re: Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `..'.

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Joost, * Joost Kraaijeveld wrote on Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:54:25PM CEST: I get the message Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `..'. from libtoolize. Can anyone tell me what this means, if it is harmful and,if needed, what I can do about it? It means libtoolize thinks that the

Configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES variables

2008-08-21 Thread Roberto Bagnara
Hi there, I desperately need a way out this limitation of Automake. The problem is as follows: the Parma Polyhedra Library (http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/) provides foreign interfaces (C, OCaml, Prolog and Java) to a number of abstract domains. The abstract domains that are interfaced are

Re: Configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES variables

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:55:25PM CEST: [ ... lots of sources, conditional and all ... ] Using the solution outlined in the Automake manual (i.e., using conditionals) would cause us to write enormous Makefile.am files which would be a maintenance

Re: [PPL-devel] Configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES variables

2008-08-21 Thread Roberto Bagnara
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:55:25PM CEST: [ ... lots of sources, conditional and all ... ] Using the solution outlined in the Automake manual (i.e., using conditionals) would cause us to write enormous Makefile.am files which would be a maintenance

Re: [PPL-devel] Configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES variables

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:00:04PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Are you saying that you generate Makefile.am (or an include snippet for it) automatically? no. In the previous version we generated automatically the individual C++ sources, including one that #included

Re: [PPL-devel] Configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES variables

2008-08-21 Thread Roberto Bagnara
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Yep. Your approach is essentially the hack I had in mind. Put the added objects in libppl_swiprolog_la_DEPENDENCIES, too, then things will work. Of course then you have to put everything else manually in that DEPENDENCIES variable, too (which automake would otherwise

Buglet on http://sources.redhat.com/automake/

2008-08-21 Thread Magnus Fromreide
Under Availability it says The latest released version of Automake is 1.10.1 and it can be found on ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors. where ftp.gnu.org and mirrors are hyperlinks. The problem is that ftp.gnu.org points to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.10.tar.gz and I think it would be

Problems with library on macos X

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Luis dos Santos
I am trying to build a library on a leopard machine with autoconf 2.61 and automake 10.1 from mac ports. The generated makefile has no object files and then the ar command fails with : ar cru libliquidsurfaces.a ar: no archive members specified usage: ar -d [-TLsv] archive file ...

Re: Buglet on http://sources.redhat.com/automake/

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Magnus, * Magnus Fromreide wrote on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:01:57PM CEST: Under Availability it says [...] The problem is that ftp.gnu.org points to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.10.tar.gz and I think it would be good if it could point to 1.10.1. Fixed, thanks for the report!