Re: bug in perl formline in automake

2009-11-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 03:52:29PM CET: Files which are automatically distributed, if found: Use of uninitialized value in formline at /usr/bin/automake line 8334. ABOUT-GNU README config.rpath ltcf-gcj.sh for the reconrd

bug in perl formline in automake

2009-11-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, automake --help contains this: Files which are automatically distributed, if found: Use of uninitialized value in formline at /usr/bin/automake line 8334. ABOUT-GNU README config.rpath ltcf-gcj.sh ABOUT-NLS THANKS config.sub ltconfig The

Re: Failure of `make.test'

2008-07-02 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Jul 01, 2008, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Yes, actually I had forgotten that NixOS' GNU Make package is modified to produce additional output suitable for the `nix-log2xml' tool. The extra output [*] is (1) one line per goal sent to stderr, and (2) an additional \e[p sequence to

Re: Failure of `make.test'

2008-07-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, to reproduce what the test does, try the following: mkdir test.dir cd test.dir cat configure.ac \EOF AC_INIT(foo,0,np) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foreign) AM_MAKE_INCLUDE AC_OUTPUT(Makefile) EOF touch Makefile.am autoreconf -i MAKE='make -w' ./configure In my case, the configure output contains

Re: Failure of `make.test'

2008-07-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:39:27PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: to reproduce what the test does, try the following: Unfortunately, I can't run it with the in-tree Automake, because `autoreconf' won't find $prefix/share/aclocal-1.10, for instance. How can I make it use the

Re: question using VPATH'S ...

2008-07-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:07:36AM +1930, Roberto Alejandro Espí Muñoz wrote: Ok, I thinks I didn't explain myself correctly then ... From what I saw there I can use either bindir, libdir or includedir for when I'm installing the completed targets. What I want to do is to locate them

Re: Dependencies: non-standard path to system headers

2008-07-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:12:15AM +, Ineiev wrote: WinAVR gcc produces dependencies that shall confuse `make', like these: sampler.o: ../../../stribog/sw/auxilia/coil/sampler.c \ c:/winavr-20080512/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/avr/io.h \

Re: Iperf build break with emake.

2008-06-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
make, then it should be reported to emake developers first. Hope this helps, Stepan Kasal

Re: Troubles with pkgdata_DATA primary...

2008-06-18 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:42:10AM -0600, John Calcote wrote: Never mind ... duh ... I forgot to take the docs directory out of the EXTRA_DIST variable when I added it to the SUBDIRS variable. Thus (I'm guessing) the distdir code was trying to create files that were already in place,

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make install' fails if file system is case insensitive

2008-06-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
don't know how hard it would be to change this, because the .PHONY can appear at the end of the makefile.) Similarly, if a target is declared as phony, it perhaps should be treated as case sensitive even though make is configured as case insensitive. What do you think? Stepan Kasal

Re: preprocessor output target

2008-06-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
-E). The main I'm not aware about anything like that. For my debugging needs, for example, it was always enough to cut and paste the command which failed, with -E, without -c -o something.o and direct the output to less. Stepan Kasal

Re: Need Help Writing a Rule

2008-05-28 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 07:49:51PM -0700, Bobby Dill wrote: %.cpp: %.png uic -embed colortool $? -o $@ image_collection.cpp: images/designer_widgetstack.png \ images/designer_d_table.png \ images/designer_d_iconview.png well, this is more aquestion about

Re: How to install doxygen-generated HTML documentation?

2008-05-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
. Unfortunately, twisting maintainer-clean that way is not compatible with GNU Coding Standards. OTOH, users do not use maintainer-clean, so you do not do much harm by breaching that part of the standard. Uff, rather lenthy mail, I hope at least some parts of ot will help you. Stepan Kasal

Re: Typo in manual

2008-05-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:08:24PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: almost staled - almost stalled Thanks. I added my small collection of typos. Attached below. Could someone please commit? thanks. Stepan Kasal From d02669b611ac91885ebf8ec0c94723394ecdf50a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Re: MKDIR_P vs. mkdir_p and automake versions

2008-05-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
]) will probably be no longer an issue. HTH, Stepan Kasal

Re: How to install doxygen-generated HTML documentation?

2008-05-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello again, Peter, On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:07:54PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote: Another way is to do all the necessary work manually: defining install-data-local, uninstall-local, etc. That should be safer. Thank you for the recommendation. I tried it. Both 'dist' and 'install' work

Re: MKDIR_P vs. mkdir_p and automake versions

2008-05-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:55:26AM -0400, David Bruce wrote: On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:37:16 am Stepan Kasal wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:22 -0400, David Bruce wrote: MKDIR_P is recommended but requires automake-1.10 or higher. [...] is there an acceptable workaround? forgive

Re: patch and dist rules

2008-05-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Jack, a few humble ideas: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:59:44PM -0700, Jack Bates wrote: patch: patch-stamp patch-stamp: patches/* cat patches/* | patch -p0 touch $@ Please note that this rule is not perfect; when one of the patches is deleted, the rule does not notice it.

Re: BUILT_SOURCES doesn't seem to work

2008-05-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Bobby, a few comments: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:38:08PM -0700, Bobby Dill wrote: When I try to compile my app, I get a message stating that sigcreatedlg.h does not exist, so the files in BUILT_SOURCES are not generated before the rest of my app is compiled. What's the right way to do

Re: How to install doxygen-generated HTML documentation?

2008-05-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:08:16AM +0200, Peter Simons wrote: Warren Young writes: dist_pkgdata_DATA = html/* When I try that, I get the following error message: | make[1]: *** No rule to make target `html/*', needed by `all-am'. Stop. well, that's because all-local is not hooked to

Re: Questions on 'make dist'

2008-03-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
Good afternon Della, On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:02:17PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, NightStrike wrote: I had intended to do everything with non-recursive make, but as [Ralf] pointed out once, non-recursive is also considered harmful. [thread:]

Re: Building multiple versions of the same program

2008-03-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:51:28AM -0700, iamcamiel wrote: For those interested; [...] and for the readers of the archive. prog_a_CXXFLAGS = -DVAR_A A typo: _CPPFLAGS (C PreProcessor), CXX stands for C++. Other than that, it's a perfect solution. Stepan Kasal

Re: Questions on 'make dist'

2008-03-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:13:06PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: On 3/19/08, Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Why do you insist on the layout described above? I would have one top-level directory and make doc and headers (or perhaps hdr) subdirs. The mingw-w64-headers

Re: Questions on 'make dist'

2008-03-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:55:55PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: mingw-w64/crt mingw-w64/doc mingw-w64/hdr ... So I guess the choices boil down to: 1) Change the directory structure 2) Recursive make to a small degree Is that about right? actually, I recommend recursive make to a

Re: Autoconf's copy of ChannelDefs.pm

2008-03-17 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 02:24:34PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:20:53PM CET: several of the lib/Automake/*.pm files are used by Autoconf as lib/Autom4te/*.pm. Why isn't ChannelDefs.pm among them. ... Hmm. Would it make sense

Autoconf's copy of ChannelDefs.pm

2008-03-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
category of warnings, even though it does not use it currently? Attached please find a patch which would sync the two clones. Are you willing to apply? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2008-03-14 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Import changes from

Re: How to test if a autoconf macro exists?

2008-02-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
to aclocal.m4 even if it is available. So please do not use m4_ifdef in this case.] Hope this clarifies the situation, Stepan Kasal

Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs

2007-11-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:30:31AM +, Olly Betts wrote: Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs. However, these recipes require a lot of boilerplate code which annoyingly obscures [...] It's just struck me that automake is good at inserting lots of boilerplate code into

Re: make distcheck and the /etc dir

2007-06-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
day, Stepan Kasal

Re: 'make clean' removing doc/shishi.ps

2007-05-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
to a hack: configure would make a bacup copy at configure time, and that copy would be used by mostlyclean-local to restore the just-deleted files. Or you can put the ``official'' docs separatey, not in the place where they are usually built, and tell users about it. HTH, Stepan Kasal

Re: What is `aclocal' trying to tell me? ``error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion''

2007-05-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
it, Stepan Kasal

Re: info_TEXINFOS should not assume source file exists

2007-05-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
; patches welcome. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

LTLIBRARIES omitted in doc

2007-05-03 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, I noticed that `LTLIBRARIES' is missing in the list of the primaries in node Uniform. Please apply the attached patch. Stepan 2007-05-03 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Add `LTLIBRARIES' to the list of primaries. Index: doc/automake.texi

Re: 'toolman_MANS' not supported?

2007-05-03 Thread Stepan Kasal
foo_MANS? It seems that even writing a specification for the genreal `MANS' primary presents some work, even before any line of code is written. Again, volunteers are welcome. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: 'toolman_MANS' not supported?

2007-05-03 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi Harald, [answering, though not asked] On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:48:08PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi Ralf, [...] Do you think it would be difficult to replace the hardwired 'man' in automake.pl by a directory variable? I'm afraid it is relatively difficult. Prove that I'm wrong! ;-)

Fix typos, but think twice

2007-05-02 Thread Stepan Kasal
, Stepan Kasal 2007-05-02 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * automake.in (am_primary_prefixes): Keep the intentional typo there. Index: automake.in === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/automake.in,v retrieving revision

Re: rewrite of m4/depout.m4

2007-04-26 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:02:13PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: The motivation to do this was to work towards allowing non-static content in *_SOURCES variables, so that it works even with subdir-objects. IOW, one stepping stone to eventually allow bin_PROGRAMS = foo mydir =

Re: renamed objects and other languages

2007-04-26 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Florian, * Florian Briegel wrote on Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:59:10AM CEST: Am Montag, 23. April 2007 schrieb Benoit Sigoure: Is there any reason why you would not want to do this? Simplicity. aaa_SOURCES = foo.x is much more easy to handle [...] indeed. I believe you have

Re: Sablotron and Autotools?

2007-04-26 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:46:55PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: What is the canonical way to test for the existence of libsablot with autoconf 2.60? well, this question shall better go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you can use AC_CHECK_LIB to check for the library. Since GNU/Linux

Re: generated files in CVS

2007-04-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:36:22PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Is there any reason that doc/{stamp-vti,version.texi} are stored in CVS? a quick check: Autoconf does not have these files in the CVS. So it seems safe to leave them out. Stepan

Re: Lost in automatic dependencies

2007-04-16 Thread Stepan Kasal
that some time ago, you configured a project with --disable-dependency-tracking, and then this seting was stored in the cache. (You might say that this is a bug in Automake, but in any case, this is something which is note ready and does not work.) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: autoheader, fortran, and comments

2007-04-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
portability. And I changed the sed cmd to adapt for comments which span more than two lines. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

2007-03-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Mar 1 14:50 doc/m4.texinfo it might be possible that even the user or group owner of / would have a blank it its name. (With Cygwin, one never knows.) So it is safer to use -n with ls /, too. Just guessing, I'm not a Cygwin user. Stepan Kasal

Re: mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

2007-03-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello again, On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:12:11PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 29 March 2007 15:38, Stepan Kasal wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 29 March 2007 00:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/2730

Re: shell pwd: non-POSIX variable name ??

2007-03-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
turn these # warnings on, since -Wno-portability will not be an issue for # the 1.7/1.8 transition. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: Overriding suffix based implicit rules

2007-03-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
is there to drag in C++ support. Please note that though the *.cc files are temporarily created, make delets them at the end, because they are intermediate. (Use info '(make)Chained Rules' to read details.) Could you live with this? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: Shouldn't the definition of maintainer-clean be changed?

2007-03-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
`configure' from completing,'' as the manual says. Yet is is often used in situations which prevent the build from completing.) So, in practice, one has to collect all of the pre-requisites of the projects, before a working Makefile is available. Thanks, Stepan Kasal

Re: [Autogen-users] Shouldn't the definition of maintainer-clean be changed?

2007-03-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
autoreconf (aka bootstrap) take an option: autoreconf --clean bootstrap --clean As said above, I gather that this is the way to go. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Shouldn't the definition of maintainer-clean be changed?

2007-03-16 Thread Stepan Kasal
forward to hear your opinions. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: MAINTAINERCLEANFILES in srcdir

2007-03-15 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:11:37AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:34:06PM CET: -test -n $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) \ rm -f $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) \ cd $(srcdir) rm -f $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES

MAINTAINERCLEANFILES in srcdir

2007-03-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, the target maintainer-clean contains -test -z $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) || rm -f $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) which means that the files are cleaned only in the build tree. But the files which are cleaned by maintainer-clean, but not distclean, are usually distributed, because it is

Re: generated ChangeLog

2007-03-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, i apologize that I reply to myself. I found out there is one nit: If you write the rule for ChangeLog to Makefile.am, then Automake complains that the file does not exist at the time Automake is run. Actually, Automake suppresses the message if a rule named ChangeLog is found. But I

Re: How to include COPYING and COPYRIGHT in make install

2007-01-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, one nit: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:00:59PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Please note that the docdir variable is new in Autoconf-2.60, so if you happen to use an older Autoconf version together with your Automake, then you also need something along the lines of docdir =

ac_aux_dir not set

2007-01-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
should be the first AM_* macro; is it really there? In any case, I suppose the attached patch should not hurt. Thanks, Stepan Kasal 2007-01-10 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * m4/auxdir.m4 (AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND): Require AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT. Index: m4/auxdir.m4

Re: How do I *conditionally* add to INSTALL_DIRS ?

2007-01-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:19:38AM +0900, atoz wrote: if WANT_MAN_PAGES cp fooman.8 $(foomandir) fi ... and it leads to the following error ... Makefile.am:175: unterminated conditionals: WANT_MAN_PAGES_TRUE this question is easy: Automake conditionals are ended by endif,

Re: Preprocessing C++ only

2007-01-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
). Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: automake-1.9.6 check FAILURE: 32 of 553 tests failed...

2006-12-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
please remove the fixed tests from the list.) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: no rule to make asm targets

2006-12-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
, there is no guarantee that the work you invest into formulating the question will pay off, unfortunately. :-( ) Sorry that we were not able to provide better help. (At least not yet.) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: how to exclude the COPYING file

2006-12-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:00:09AM +0100, Presario Smith wrote: AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign I'd prefer AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) in configure.ac, as this is a global option, affecting the whole project. But that's just a nit. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: no rule to make asm targets

2006-12-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
, Stepan Kasal

Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

2006-12-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf and all, [sorry for the delay, I forgot this in my postponed folder] On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:35:54PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:18PM CET: [...] So it seems that distcheck would catch more bugs if `_build' were

Re: no rule to make asm targets

2006-12-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
the rules, and generate the .SUFFIXES: line. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal Footnote: [*] Normal case means here that each suffix starts with a dot and does not contain any other dot.

Re: Circular dependency

2006-11-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:31:19AM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Stepan Kasal wrote: You specified the dependency: corelib/camlimages.ml -- Makefile This is not correct. You should specify the ultimate primary sources instead of `Makefile'. Prehaps `Makefile.am' is enough

Re: Circular dependency

2006-11-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:24:19AM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: So, to get back at my original question, what's the proper way of expressing dependencies for a generated source file through configure-time substitution: foo: foo.in config.status or, as in autoconf documentation:

Re: Circular dependency

2006-11-28 Thread Stepan Kasal
was CC'ed to you, but your servers refuse connections from my computer. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: Circular dependency

2006-11-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
instead of `Makefile'. Prehaps `Makefile.am' is enough? I hope this hint helps you to find a fix. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: adding libraries and header file directories

2006-11-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:50:18PM +0100, Jim Rainville wrote: + aclocal-1.10 -I m4 ... configure.ac:80: warning: macro `AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS' not found in library On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:43:44PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: The warning shouldn't be there. Please post the

Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

2006-11-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
baz.c nodist_check_SCRIPTS = this # this is created from this.in by configure dist_check_SCRIPTS = that another TESTS = $(check_PROGRAMS) $(nodist_check_SCRIPTS) $(dist_check_SCRIPTS) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: Using automake in conjunction with kbuild Makefile

2006-11-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Steve, I do not have any experience with kbuilt, but I'll try to generate some hins anyway: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:48:29AM +0100, Steve Kreyer wrote: DEFAULT_INCLUDES = [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ two nits about this line: No need to use @..@, use $(abs_top_srcdir) instead. Why do you

Re: false positive result with 'make distcheck'

2006-11-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
, and Ralf oposed to it. On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:35:54PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:18PM CET: [...] So it seems that distcheck would catch more bugs if `_build' were not a subdirectory of the expanded tarball tree. It would possibly

Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

2006-11-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:46:23PM -0700, David Everly wrote: I put together a test case before sending my email, the only line in the one Makefile.am is the one I gave containing test.txt. well, I created configure.ac and Makefile.am: $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT([this], [1.0], [EMAIL

Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

2006-11-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
not use $(srcdir) (and such) until you encounter a problem which will force you to use them. And I think that when you are forced to use $(srcdir) in Makefile.am, it'll be in a _rule_, not in a variable. This is just a rule of thumb, it is possible that others will correct/amend it. HTH, Stepan

Re: How do you add an executable command into automake

2006-11-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
will be rebuilt on a subsequent run of `make', eg. during `sudo make install'. Second, I suppose that main.c is distributed and generatedheader.h is not. But distributed files are not allowed to depend on non-distributed ones. In short, do not do this. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

2006-11-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:29:39AM -0700, David Everly wrote: I should have used this (because test.txt is not constructed): dist_sysconf_DATA = $(top_srcdir)/test.txt However, I've regularly run 'make distcheck' and it gives no error with the original sysconf_DATA. How can this

Re: acloca20 test intermittent failure

2006-10-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
stays disjoint. 2006-10-24 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * bin/autom4te.in: With --force, always refresh the output file. Problem reported by Greg Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Index: bin/autom4te.in === RCS file

remove the /dev/null in the heart of autom4te

2006-10-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
/XFile.pm about `-' about it; I'm not volunteering for that because of Perl. ;-) The third step would be to tell the caching in autom4te that such runs cannot be cached. (And then we could implement `autoconf -'.) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2006-10-24 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dependency tracking of pre processed Assembler files

2006-10-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, you wrote: Further note a small buglet in m4/as.m4: - without no-dependencies, we should not compute depmode. you mean that _with_ no-dependencies, we shouldn't compute depmode, right? Stepan

Re: Dependence on object files listed in link script

2006-10-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: autoreconf not passing -I option to aclocal

2006-10-02 Thread Stepan Kasal
, using the `dirlist' file. (It is possible /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist is read-only in your case, perhaps because you do not administer the system. Then your only option is to make a local installation of Automake under your $HOME directory.) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: autotools FAQ (was: how to turn off shared library notice in output of make install?)

2006-09-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I haven't read the whole post, but I'd like to make a few quick comments: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:34:42AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Q: The auto in the name of automake and autoconf, does this mean I can create the build environment on one platform and the build

Re: Cross-compiling support (was: Multilib support)

2006-09-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:54:20PM +0800, Tzu-Chien Chiu wrote: 2006/9/22, Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But this does not mean tha BUILD_CC has to be set! If BUILD_CC is empty, this just makes CC empty. AC_PROG_CC then does its work. (The variable CC overrides the test only

Cross-compiling support (was: Multilib support)

2006-09-22 Thread Stepan Kasal
not mean tha BUILD_CC has to be set! If BUILD_CC is empty, this just makes CC empty. AC_PROG_CC then does its work. (The variable CC overrides the test only if it is nonempty.) Yes, I agree this is tricky, yet I think this aproach is appropriate for a small project. Have a nice day, Stepan

Re: Multilib support

2006-09-21 Thread Stepan Kasal
version 4.8 or newer), which does build a couple of native tools, which are then needed for the main cross-platform build. Texinfo is a smaller package, and thus should serve as a more comprehensive example. Feel free to ask me about the details of it. HTH, Stepan Kasal

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-09-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:50:48PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: +test -f $HOME/.autom4te.cfg exit 77 [...], but better be safer than sorry: this test does not need to be executed on many systems in order to be effective. you are right, of course; thanks for explanation.

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-09-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:22:31PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:26:34PM CEST: [sleep before the first aclocal call] thank you that you kindly repeated the explanation for me. I apologize that I was not able to see it in your previous

Re: trying to install docs that are distributed with my package...

2006-08-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
is that version.texi gets represhed and triggers the rebuild. Could you please post a link to a tarball which exhibits the problem? (If you observed the problem when building from a CVS checkout, please verify that it reproduces with a tarball made by `make dist'.) Have a ncie day, Stepan

Re: distdir unset in subdir Makefiles?

2006-08-28 Thread Stepan Kasal
, so I decided to wait for a better answer from someone else.) Stepan Kasal

Re: how to install man pages to directory man3f?

2006-08-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, installed in man3, man3f, and man3f90. indeed, these non-standard man subdirectories are not aupported by the MANS primary. But you can use the _DATA primary: man3fdir = $(mandir)/man3f man3f_DATA = foo.3f man3f90dir = $(mandir)/man3f90 man3f90_DATA = foo.3f90 If you used the same for

Re: Error testing automake 1.9.6

2006-08-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:07:17PM +0200, Pierre wrote: * Pierre wrote on Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:29:53AM CEST: # make check [...] PASS: aclocal.test PASS: aclocal3.test FAIL: aclocal4.test Here are the log file. it seems that the standard Unix command `test' (which is even a

Re: Multilib support

2006-08-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
is required, the configure script first configures in a subdirectory for a native build, then it continues configuration for the main build. Consult texinfo-4.8/configure.ac for details. Feel free to ask if anything of the trick is not clear. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Re: autom4te.cache?

2006-08-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 03:13:22PM +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote: I'm getting a directory autom4te.cache in my tree with big files in this is a cache produces by autom4te, the workhorse behind autoconf and aclocal. The usual solution is to ignore it, and add it to .cvsignore Some people

Re: Creating subdirs of distdir

2006-08-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:54:23PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: I'm installing this as follows, removing another reference to DISTDIRS in dist.am, fixing distdir.test so it passes, and fixing the (c) year of pr2.test, thank you very much for the fixes. (I wonder why I thought

Re: need to install (but not build or distribute) something to the bin directory...

2006-08-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 07:30:47PM -0600, Ed Hartnett wrote: [...] gcc to produce an extra output file, called libnetcdf.def. ... So how do I tell automake that there is a file I would like installed, but not specially built nor included in the distribution? I'm sure there is

Re: automake 'dist' target distributes built source file

2006-07-28 Thread Stepan Kasal
that it will be built at the very begining of targets `all', `check', and `install', but that is all. It is just a hack which helps in situations where the target cannot be listed as a prerequisite to the terget which really needs it. Hope this makes this corner less dark, Stepan Kasal

Re: robustifying remove_distdir?

2006-07-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:24:37PM -0400, David Fang wrote: In reply to myself: Is there a way of making the rm -rf more robust? Maybe with some sort of while distdir exists, try removing loop? ... - rm -fr $(distdir); }; } + { until rm -fr $(distdir); do :; done;

Re: variable names and `include'

2006-06-26 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:24:09PM +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote: a way to do this but $(eval include bar.mk), Automake is not preprocessing the whole file, so there are easier ways to fool it: NULL = $(NULL)include hoo or include = include $(include) hoo Have a nice day, Stepan

Re: [AM-1.4] make distclean tries to build objects

2006-06-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, What can one say about this? I don't get it. I'm afraid your mail does not contain enough information for any reasonable answer. Can the project be downloaded somewhere? Could you post gui/Makefile.am? Which version of Automake was used? Stepan

Re: Building a static library consisting of libraries

2006-06-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:59:07PM +0200, Norbert Sendetzky wrote: Let me first ask a question: Are .a libraries (libopendbx.a) static libraries or is that only dependent on the -static flag? *.a is always a static library, AFAIK. But that was not the point of Ralf's answer. Again,

Re: [WISH] Local target in cross compialtion

2006-06-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:25:47PM +0200, Jérôme Pouiller wrote: One last question : In Makefile of linux kernel, HOSTCC is used to name compiler for the build platform, no? yes, when they say ``host program'', they mean ``binary for the system where the kernel build runs.'' The

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
editorial work before install, anyway. Though I regret the confusion, I'm glad that Ralf pointed out the problem. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

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