Re: converting to subdir-objects

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: converting to subdir-objects

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: converting to subdir-objects

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
that strategies which are not compatible with Automake's own 'make dist' are not likely to work reliably. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: converting to subdir-objects

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
program does take longer to start since it has more to consider at once, the dependencies are fully known, and the Makefile file is larger. Builds are no slower for the usual case. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: How to add new Makefile-Rules through Configure?

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Makefile variables. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: converting to subdir-objects

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Trouble creating a check program in automake

2015-03-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
framework so it may not be easy to understand. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Automake - distcheck fails on install-data-local

2015-02-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
) to install to a different location than the default so the files can be bundled for installation. That is why 'make distcheck' verifies that this functionality is working. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: Generated Makefile fails to build

2014-09-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
option instead. This problem seems to be a 'feature' of gcc because the same error happens when compiling by manual commands. What must I do please? LIBS are not flags. Take care to specify libraries where libraries are supposed to go. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: Using $(variables) in source file list

2014-08-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
of directories or source file names. It is best to stick with what is documented in the Automake documentation. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Print Commands Executed by make check

2014-07-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
is not particularly user friendly. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: how to silence make distcheck?

2014-07-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
want to preserve user-provided option variables so the same # compiler, headers, and libraries are used as for a normal build. DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=$(DISTCHECK_CONFIG_FLAGS) Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

Re: Make make check abort on memory leaks or errors

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
--read-var-info=yes \ --error-exitcode=2 --track-origins=yes --num-callers=12 \ --quiet $(VALGRIND_EXTRA_OPTS)' check Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: argument list too long in project with many files

2014-05-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
` ; \ cd $(srcdir) \ ( \ for dir in $(DISTDIRS) ; do \ find $$dir -depth -print | egrep -v '(~$$)|(/\.hg)|(/\.#)|(/\.deps)|(\.pyc)' \ | cpio -pdum $$builddir/$(distdir) 2 /dev/null ; \ done \ ) \ ) Bob -- Bob

Re: Add convenience libraries to the include path

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
/convenience Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Set dependencies between convenience libraries

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
rather than using a convenience library. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Influencing DEFAULT_INCLUDES

2014-05-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Johansson wrote: On 18/05/14 10:54, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Is there a safe way to change DEFAULT_INCLUDES to only include what is needed? Hi Bob, Have you looked at automake option 'nostdinc'? Hope that solves it. Yes it does. Adding it caused me to learn

Influencing DEFAULT_INCLUDES

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
project. Is there a safe way to change DEFAULT_INCLUDES to only include what is needed? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Automake and deep directory structure

2014-04-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
-recursive build method for two significant projects. Both of them fit your deep project description. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: DELETE_ON_ERROR test-suite.log and .PRECIOUS

2013-12-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
because I wanted to stop the test after spotting an error (many tests in one TAP test script) but keep the log file. Hopefully the patch solves this as well. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: DELETE_ON_ERROR test-suite.log and .PRECIOUS

2013-12-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
because I wanted to stop the test after spotting an error (many tests in one TAP test script) but keep the log file. Hopefully the patch solves this as well. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: Funding and Feature Request Management For Open Source

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
be providing you with their bank account information for the deposits. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: distclean should walk subdirs in reverse order

2013-03-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
seconds were wasted accomplishing nothing useful at all. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
for converting large packages to non-recursive builds will be eliminated. Considerable time and electricity will be saved. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to release any software based on an unreleased Automake. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to be added. Sure, that also works. It just seems kind of silly to have to deceive make rather than just removing the make rules that one doesn't want. It only works if the source files are allowed to be writeable. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2013-02-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Care to rephrase, or give an example? A carefully autotooled package may be re-autotooled by the user based on whatever random version they have installed or it may just fail. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. However ... Doesn't Git make it as easy to diff and merge between repositories as easily it does between branches in the same repository? The source control tool named after a fluid metal does. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. However ... Doesn't Git make it as easy to diff and merge between repositories as easily it does between branches in the same repository? The source control tool named after a fluid metal does. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to have a future with official releases, then we can start to depend on it and take pride in using it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to have a future with official releases, then we can start to depend on it and take pride in using it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
repository. Having it available by default in a repository would be easier to grasp for git-challenged people like me. Alpha/beta release packages would help quite a lot. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

Re: serial-tests option and backwards compatibility

2013-01-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to creating too many threads on the system. Of course, TAP does not solve the backward-compatibility problem. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

bug#13349: [IMPORTANT] Could we just assuming support for make recursive variable expansion unconditionally?

2013-01-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
file (not just Automake's copy). Previous to use by Automake in configure scripts, MAKE was an environment variable used for internal communication from a parent make process to a subordinate make process and set by make itself. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

bug#13349: Re-execute with the correct make implementation

2013-01-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
) scenarios. This problem (use of wrong 'make') does not impact Automake-NG at all and it does not seem wise to create a complex solution for a problem which is seldom encountered and typically benign. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

bug#13349: [IMPORTANT] Could we just assuming support for make recursive variable expansion unconditionally?

2013-01-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
not support recursive variable expansion, what will happen? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

bug#13324: Improvements to dist targets (was: Re: EXTRA_DIST, directories, tar --exclude-vcs)

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
) \ ( \ for dir in $(DISTDIRS) ; do \ find $$dir -depth -print | egrep -v '(~$$)|(/\.hg)|(/\.#)|(/\.deps)|(\.pyc)' \ | cpio -pdum $$builddir/$(distdir) 2 /dev/null ; \ done \ ) \ ) Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: Improvements to dist targets (was: Re: EXTRA_DIST, directories, tar --exclude-vcs)

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
) \ ( \ for dir in $(DISTDIRS) ; do \ find $$dir -depth -print | egrep -v '(~$$)|(/\.hg)|(/\.#)|(/\.deps)|(\.pyc)' \ | cpio -pdum $$builddir/$(distdir) 2 /dev/null ; \ done \ ) \ ) Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: Improvements to dist targets (was: Re: EXTRA_DIST, directories, tar --exclude-vcs)

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
are not much larger and can serve for the case where the most universal format is needed. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
or early 2004. Perhaps my posting can be found in a mail archive somewhere. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
(or profound lack of interest) in fixing this at the time. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
is produced by Perl, it should be possible to support this path simplification while still building a working makefile which emulates a heirarchical build style. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
files may be compiled at once as possible. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

How Do Parallel Builds Scale?

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
is redone so that it benefits from compilation on modern hardware. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: TAP support documentation

2012-11-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
not be directly borrowed since it is GPLed and not easily redistributable in packages which are not GPLed. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: IF condition inside Makefile.am

2012-10-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
= sources.c The conditions not met are commented out in the Makefile written by config.status. Is that different than you expected? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: source files with same name but in different directories

2012-10-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
-objects should solve this. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [RFC] Moving ltmain.sh and libtool.m4 into Automake

2012-10-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
by the bundling did not exceed the potential harm caused by the bundling. Project configure and build times improved by removing libltdl. Creading a stand-alone libltdl package is a very good idea. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
be installed by the user using the normal package manager. My experience is primarily as a user of such binaries. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Measuring test duration?

2012-09-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
me a few days to learn how to use TAP and convert all of the tests (769 tests at the moment). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] Idea: Inverse sort re-builds by time

2012-09-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
do and are more likely to be gating dependencies) even if the Makefile.am suggests a different ordering. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Using convenience libraries with non-recursive make

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Apparently this did not work for you. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] Automake vs. Automake-NG

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
on the automake-ng list is surely already on the automake list. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] Automake vs. Automake-NG

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
on the automake-ng list is surely already on the automake list. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] Automake vs. Automake-NG

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. IMHO, the gnu.org mailing lists would benefit by refusing messages which are CC:ed to multiple mailing lists. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Automake, Autoconf and POSIX shells (was: Re: GraphicsMagick Automake TAP)

2012-08-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
evolve, they typically offer more capable shells, even if they are not called /bin/sh. My software's test suite does not need to work on systems more than 12 years old. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

Re: Dynamic package version numbers with Autoconf and Automake

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
on the configuration header. Bpb -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Using convenience libraries with non-recursive make

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Dynamic package version numbers with Autoconf and Automake (was: Re: Automake 1.12.0b test release)

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
configure to be re-executed (due to added rules). This assures that the version is always correct (at the expense of more compilation time). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Dynamic package version numbers with Autoconf and Automake (was: Re: Automake 1.12.0b test release)

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
the result directly. echo ${value} | tr -d $nl -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to be able to produce 'srpm' format as well as a '7z' format. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
(in Mercurial or maybe git mirror) until Automake-NG is stable and properly released. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: distinguish automake 1.11 from 1.12+ at autoconf time

2012-08-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. The problem would be solved if there was a way to prevent autoconf from caching these values, or over-riding the cached values. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: distinguish automake 1.11 from 1.12+ at autoconf time

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
without good cause. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: using cygpath for compiling and linking

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
(prog_LDADD)? I see that there is e.g. .S.obj rule that does, but in my case .S.o rule applies that doesn't. I suggest seeing if MinGW's MSYS (originally derived from Cygwin) might do better. It converts Unix style paths to Windows paths for Windows native programs. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: [Automake] How to get debug symbols in the executable?

2012-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
-I -I -g -O0 -MT libswat_la-TDKernel.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libswat_la-TDKernel.Tpo -c ../TDKernel.cxx -o libswat_la-TDKernel.o /dev/null 21 I couldn't also find the -s option which would discard the symbols. Can someone help me? Thanks, Marcelo ps. I am using automake version 1.11.3 -- Bob

Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI] general: include verbatim makefile fragments in output Makefiles

2012-08-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
into their version control systems and attempting to hide them would only make things more confusing. In other words, I agree with Akim. :-) Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 1/2] [ng] perf: disable GNU make builtin rules, for performance reasons

2012-06-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
which should be built. If there are just a few common targets, these can be added as shortcut targets in the Makefile. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 2/4] [ng] subdir-objects: enable unconditionally

2012-06-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
a little in the process. Excellent idea. Nice job. And yet again, a patch size dominated by the test suite. Sorry for you guy. LGTMT (Looks Good To Me Too). It was always a mystery to me why it was not the normal operation. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Autoconf caches AC_INIT arguments

2012-05-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
? Is there a way to assure that configure gets re-generated based on the dependencies listed in CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES as documented in the Automake manual section 16 Rebuilding Makefiles? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: Automake 1.12.0b test release

2012-05-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to cause dynamic AC_INIT arguments to actually work? Is there a way to convince Automake to invoke autoconf with the --force option? Thanks, Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a patch by Ralf

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. people on autom...@gnu.org) rather than Automake developers? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: TAP support in automake (was: Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length)

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
for the user to see tests XFAIL as a reminder that the configuration may be missing something they wanted. How is this best handled for TAP tests? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a patch by Ralf

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. people on automake@gnu.org) rather than Automake developers? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: TAP support in automake (was: Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length)

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
for the user to see tests XFAIL as a reminder that the configuration may be missing something they wanted. How is this best handled for TAP tests? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: TAP support in automake

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
1.12 TAP driver handle this common special case? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: TAP support in automake

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 03/31/2012 11:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: how does one re-execute just one test in order to see the details of how it failed? With Automake, one shouldn't -- he should write his test to be verbose enough so that a perusing of the logs

Re: TAP support in automake

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us writes: Ok, now I hear that there are still log files similar to parallel-tests (presumably using the identical facility). It does not seem that Russ's C TAP Harness offers this quite wonderful feature

Re: Automake 1.11.3b test release

2012-03-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Cygwin 1.7 install, nothing unexpected. It's just the old problem with lzma.test that is worked around with export XZ_DEFAULTS=--memlimit=20MiB Is there is a reason why Automake does not provide a suitable default which limits memory usage to reasonable values? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: dealing with executable shell scripts

2012-03-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
script rely on this? I suppose that people could chmod +x the configure script before running it, but I've never had to do that. Not all operating systems support the notion of execute bits, including the most popular operating system. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: dealing with executable shell scripts

2012-03-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
true if people build in the source tree so that scripts and binaries may be intermingled. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: dealing with executable shell scripts

2012-03-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
program for the file if the file lacks a proper file extension? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: should an empty pkgdata_DATA cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by make install? (was: Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: fix imprecise comments)

2012-03-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
+= bundle.nib endif This looks like ordinary Automake conditionals to me so this usage is not dependent on if Makefile.am is generated by some other tool. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [rfc] Antimake

2012-03-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a patch by Ralf

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a patch by Ralf

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. The good news is that the test suite scripts are generated by a Makefile target (manually invoked) so it should be possible to output the tests in some other format. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
that Automake will be able to run large test suites again? Thanks, Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a To clarify, it seems that this issue is only a problem with when parallel-tests is enabled

Re: Automake 1.11.2b test release

2012-01-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
? Competition is healthy and good ... Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: allowing users to add source files without rerunning the autotools?

2012-01-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
this stuff correctly without too much work for the developer, by letting him take advantage of some of the lower-level automake machinery. This sort of thing is already well supported by Automake via Makefile includes. But it does require that automake be executed again. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: allowing users to add source files without rerunning the autotools?

2012-01-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to be decided if Automake should just pick up '*.c' like some people ask for. I am against that flimsy approach, but a hard-coded list in a GNU-make include file seems fine to me. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: [RCF] parallel-tests: removing the check-html target and the .log - .html conversion?

2012-01-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to be sufficient provision to hook in some formatting tool to produce alternate output formats. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
permutation. If a network is involved, this becomes frightfully slow. As a result, whever I would normally type 'make' I type 'csmake' instead. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

2011-12-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
exceeding the command line limit on w32 (MSYS). * NEWS: Update. Report by Bob Friesenhahn. Ah, even this patch was borked. I don't have a good solution yet without thinking yet some more. Since I would really like to get rid of known regressions, I'm reverting the patch for now

Re: Automake 1.11.2 released

2011-12-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
by today's huge packages. My most recent experience with building 'xz' dates from this past October and it was not a pleasant one since the build failed with bizarre linker errors I have not observed while building any other package. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: Automake 1.11.2 released

2011-12-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
it is at a political disadvantage. These are reasons why I have been a proponent of lzip since this topic came up a number of years ago. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Re: Automake 1.11.1b test release

2011-12-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.11.1b test release. Assuming that no serious issues are noted with the test release (I have not heard of any yet), what is the anticipated release date for 1.11.2? Thanks, Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

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