bug#8319: latexmk in automake

2011-03-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
I've been working with John Collins to improve latexmk's ability to work with automake (actually, I've been talking, he's done all the work). He's put up a snapshot at: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/latexmk/trial/ together with a test project. Thoughts? Very sensibly, I think, John has

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

2011-03-22 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +1300, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini to its suboptimal documentation. So I'm going to ask: Robert, as the main proposer/supporter of the SubUnit protocol here, would you be willing and ready to help me out during my

c file used as a make file

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Elliott
I have a c library that currently uses an old style Makefile that I want to convert to auto*tools. One .c file is used as a .h file. That is, it is included by another .c file and it should not be itself compiled. Why the author did this I do not know, but I do not want to change the

Re: c file used as a make file

2011-03-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes: I have a c library that currently uses an old style Makefile that I want to convert to auto*tools. One .c file is used as a .h file. That is, it is included by another .c file and it should not be itself compiled. Why the author did this I do

Re: c file used as a make file

2011-03-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/22/2011 07:54 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: I have a c library that currently uses an old style Makefile that I want to convert to auto*tools. One .c file is used as a .h file. That is, it is included by another .c file and it should not be itself compiled. Why the author did this I do not

Re: c file used as a make file

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Elliott
On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 01:54:33 am Paul Elliott wrote: I have a c library that currently uses an old style Makefile that I want to convert to auto*tools. One .c file is used as a .h file. That is, it is included by another .c file and it should not be itself compiled. Why the author did

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com writes: * Modify gnulib so that it can be easily integrated into a non-recursive automake setup. One could look to libltdl for inspiration here. It doesn't have to be modified. An Automake setup can easily and usefully contain a mix of

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-22 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-03-22 07:36 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com writes: * Modify gnulib so that it can be easily integrated into a non-recursive automake setup. One could look to libltdl for inspiration here. It doesn't have to be modified. An Automake

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-22 Thread NightStrike
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote:  * Modify gnulib so that it can be easily integrated into a    non-recursive automake setup.  One could look to libltdl for    inspiration here. How about modifying GCC. That should take some time, I think :) :) :)

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

2011-03-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Robert and Jelmer, and thanks for your replies. On Tuesday 22 March 2011, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +1300, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini to its suboptimal documentation. So I'm going to ask: Robert, as the main