bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-09-28 Thread Karl Berry
make AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='echo RUNNING: "$$f";' check I added this to the manual as another example of using [AM_]TESTS_ENVIRONMENT. Closing the bug ... --thanks, karl.

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-09-26 Thread Karl Berry
Back on this suggestion ... It would be very helpful if a new option AM_TESTS_NAME=1 ... RUNNING $name Looking into it now, I believe this can be done already using AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT (or by an individual user with TESTS_ENVIRONMENT). The test name is the shell variable $f at

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-03 Thread Karl Berry
* AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT * AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT * AM_TESTSUITE_SUMMARY_HEADER (Aside: I see now I should have made that name AM_TESTS_SUMMARY_HEADER. Oh well, too late now.) # with AM_TESTS_SHOW_NAME=1 I guess I have nothing against it, for the reasons you give. Can

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-02 Thread Kasper k
org> Subject: Re: bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it Am 01.07.2021 um 20:59 schrieb Kasper k: > Then if some intermittent bad situation happens in > unattended/disposable CI environment, as an example, then we won't be >

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-02 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 01.07.2021 um 20:59 schrieb Kasper k: Then if some intermittent bad situation happens in unattended/disposable CI environment, as an example, then we won't be needing to opt into any kind of workaround, it'd be just there right in the "regular" make-check logs; without introducing crazy

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-01 Thread Kasper k
hout introducing crazy amount of verbosity (which set -x, VERBOSE=1 etc. renders). /K From: Peter Johansson Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 1:30 PM To: Kasper k ; 49...@debbugs.gnu.org <49...@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Re: bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-01 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi Kasper, I leave to the maintainers to comment on the suggestion, but in the meantime... On 1/7/21 1:01 pm, Kasper k wrote: Hello automake devs, In script based testsuites

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-01 Thread Kasper k
Hello automake devs, In script based testsuites (https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites.html#Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites), when we run `make check` it prints one of the following string for each test: PASS , FAIL , XFAIL or SKIP . However, in

Funding and Feature Request Management For Open Source

2013-04-07 Thread Boian Mihailov
Hi, We have just launched a site to help existing open source projects with funding (www.catincan.com). Our goal is to help more open source projects become self-sustaining and competitive with propriety solutions. We're hoping you might provide us with some insight by answering the 3 questions

Re: Funding and Feature Request Management For Open Source

2013-04-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Boian Mihailov wrote: Hi, We have just launched a site to help existing open source projects with funding (www.catincan.com). Our goal is to help more open source projects become self-sustaining and competitive with propriety solutions. We're hoping you might provide us

Re: Funding and Feature Request Management For Open Source

2013-04-07 Thread Andy Tai
This seems to serve a similar purpose http://sfconservancy.org/donate/ run by Bradley M. Kuhn, a FSF board member and someone the Free Software community knows and trusts. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Boian Mihailov boian.mihai...@cvalka.comwrote: Hi, We have just launched a site to

bug#8031: feature request: slow make clean

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
forcemerge 10697 8031 close 8031 thanks On 02/13/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: This is a copy of http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-02/msg00017.html It's not really a bug, but rather a feature request. Ralf Original Message Subject: slow make clean

[PATCH] changelog: don't cluster multiple entries under the same date line (was: Re: [Feature request] gitlog-to-changelog: don't cluster multiple ...)

2012-01-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/17/2012 10:59 PM, Joel E. Denny wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Jim Meyering wrote: Below is a patch that adds a --no-cluster option, which I believe does what Stefano wants. I want it too. OK to push? Hi Joel, Thanks. That looks fine, but please adjust the preceding comment to keep

bug#9289: Feature request: Better 'nobase_' support for nonrecursive build system.

2011-08-13 Thread Krzesimir Nowak
Package: automake Version: 1.11.1 'nobase_' is quite a useful prefix when we want to distribute exact directory structure like it is in our code repository. But its usefullness is quite dimnished in case of nonrecursive build system generated by automake. Lets have a look at the example below:

bug#8031: feature request: slow make clean

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
This is a copy of http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-02/msg00017.html It's not really a bug, but rather a feature request. Ralf Original Message Subject: slow make clean Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:46:55 +0100 From: Ralf Hemmecke hemme...@gmail.com To: automake

Re: Feature Request: all-hook

2010-10-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Luiji, * Luiji Maryo wrote on Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:51:35AM CEST: Could you please implement an all-hook? Currently, I have UPX compress the executable after installation, however I find it would be much more useful if it were compressed after compilation. Is there a reason there is

Feature Request: all-hook

2010-10-22 Thread Luiji Maryo
Could you please implement an all-hook? Currently, I have UPX compress the executable after installation, however I find it would be much more useful if it were compressed after compilation. Is there a reason there is no all-hook? Is there an alternative way to do this (such as some sort of

Re: Feature request: per-file compilation flags

2010-03-31 Thread Jack Kelly
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan rma...@umich.edu wrote:   A typical use case for me is when one particular function that resides in a file by itself must be compiled without optimizations so that some machine-specific numerical information can be calculated accurately. With

Feature request: per-file compilation flags

2010-03-30 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
Hi, I am using automake 1.10.1 on KUbuntu 8.04/i686. I have been using autotools for a while and per-file compilation flags is something I miss quite often. Would it be possible to introduce this feature so that each file can be given custom compilation flags if required? For a target

Re: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bollinger, John C wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:33:40PM CEST: It seems that normally, the generated configure script creates dummy *.Po files in the right places, thus masking the absence of Make rules for that purpose. In my case, however, I used Make variables in Makefile.am to

Re: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Bollinger, John C john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: That would also help in the case where one or more $(DEPDIR)s is accidentally or cluelessly deleted -- the developer would not have to re-run configure (not an obvious solution) to fix the project directory.

Re: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bollinger, John C wrote on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:09:18PM CEST: Automake's cross-directory support seems to have at least one serious problem, however: Makefiles generated by the autotools always build intermediate objects in the top source directory. For example, if I am building

Re: magic variables for included fragments (was: Feature request)

2008-10-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ moving to automake-patches; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/9824 ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:46:06PM CEST: I'll follow up on automake-patches with a patch to test. Here we go. WDYT? Cheers, Ralf Recursive `include' and

magic variables for included fragments (was: Feature request)

2008-10-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:01:01AM CEST: Le 23 sept. 08 à 23:08, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : * Akim Demaille wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:35:50PM CEST: I'm slowly getting rid of my recursive Makefiles. Instead I have one local.mk per directory, and a few Makefile.ams

Re: Feature request

2008-09-24 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 23 sept. 08 à 23:08, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : Hi Akim, Hi Ralf! * Akim Demaille wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:35:50PM CEST: I'm slowly getting rid of my recursive Makefiles. Instead I have one local.mk per directory, and a few Makefile.ams that include them. Of course I have to

Re: Feature request

2008-09-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Akim Demaille wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:35:50PM CEST: I'm slowly getting rid of my recursive Makefiles. Instead I have one local.mk per directory, and a few Makefile.ams that include them. Of course I have to prefix all my file names

Re: Feature request

2008-09-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ben, * Ben Pfaff wrote on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:51:14PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd really hate to invade make's namespace. They may come up with this really cool new makefile variable, and we can't use it then. :-/ I wonder whether this is a real issue,

Feature request

2008-09-23 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi friends! I have a suggestion. I'm slowly getting rid of my recursive Makefiles. Instead I have one local.mk per directory, and a few Makefile.ams that include them. Of course I have to prefix all my file names with the name of the directory, and I find that this explicit name is

Re: Feature request

2008-09-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Akim, * Akim Demaille wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:35:50PM CEST: I'm slowly getting rid of my recursive Makefiles. Instead I have one local.mk per directory, and a few Makefile.ams that include them. Of course I have to prefix all my file names with the name of the directory,

feature request

2008-02-16 Thread stan
Hi, I am using the libsndfile package in my program as a library for conditional static linking. The official release is broken with regard to FLAC support because the FLAC api changed, so I have patched it (I submitted the patches to the developer, but he isn't interested). This works

Feature request: nobase_N_dir_PRIMARY

2007-10-04 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
I always try to write nonrecursive makefiles. But now I'm working on a project that has several trees of files that all need to go to different places, while preserving their relative hierarchy. For example I have $(top_srcdir)/www/cgi-bin/* that needs to go to $(cgidir), and

Re: Automake feature request

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ben, * Ben Elliston wrote on Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:41:46AM CET: I approached the Libtool maintainers with this request, who convinced me that Automake was the right place to implement this. I would like Automake-generated Makefiles to pass --quiet to libtool when make is invoked with

Re: Automake feature request

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Ralf Either use make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent or configure LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent or some nice hack to enable this automatically in configure.ac mentioned in the discussion at that time[1]. Thanks. That's probably good enough. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Automake feature request

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Elliston
I approached the Libtool maintainers with this request, who convinced me that Automake was the right place to implement this. I would like Automake-generated Makefiles to pass --quiet to libtool when make is invoked with -s. At present, even when compiling with make -s, libtool echoes the

Feature-Request: Add support for (sp)lint

2004-10-03 Thread Christoph Egger
Hello! Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed on this list. I wanna have support for splint / lint during compile. I imagine it in the following way: I add a line to configure.in / configure.ac AM_PROG_LINT(lint options) and that's it from the user point of view. The configure script checks

Re: Feature request

2004-09-17 Thread Andreas Schwab
Albert Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When building software with installable .m4 files (libtool, pkgconfig, gtk+, etc.), if each software program is installed to a separate directory, aclocal must be used like so: $ aclocal -I [path to libtool .m4 files] \ -I [path to pkgconfig .m4

Re: Feature request

2004-09-17 Thread Albert Chin
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:50:09AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: Albert Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When building software with installable .m4 files (libtool, pkgconfig, gtk+, etc.), if each software program is installed to a separate directory, aclocal must be used like so: $

Re: Feature request

2004-09-17 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Albert, Albert Chin wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:50:09AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: Albert Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When building software with installable .m4 files (libtool, pkgconfig, gtk+, etc.), if each software program is installed to a separate directory, aclocal must

Re: Feature request

2004-09-17 Thread Albert Chin
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:49:05PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: It may be small consolation, but the next release of GNU m4 has the last bit of functionality required to eliminate aclocal entirely. How does it do that? If the .m4 files for libtool 1.4 are in /opt/libtool14 and the .m4 files

Re: Feature request

2004-09-17 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Albert Chin wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:49:05PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: It may be small consolation, but the next release of GNU m4 has the last bit of functionality required to eliminate aclocal entirely. How does it do that? If the .m4 files for libtool 1.4 are in

Feature request

2004-09-16 Thread Albert Chin
When building software with installable .m4 files (libtool, pkgconfig, gtk+, etc.), if each software program is installed to a separate directory, aclocal must be used like so: $ aclocal -I [path to libtool .m4 files] \ -I [path to pkgconfig .m4 files] ... How about an environment variable

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-12 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:18:49AM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:34:19AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: [...] What if we reckognize some directories as to be never deleted? For instance, /, /usr/bin,

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: Thus, if I'm right that Automake doesn't know which directories the package owns, it should should err on the side of caution: it should *not* try to delete any empty directories at uninstall time. Neither should Automake try to guess -- guesses

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Uninstall script should be created by AutoMake.

2004-03-09 Thread Tom Tromey
Hans == Hans Deragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HansAutomake should create a script that simply contains all the rm Hanscommands and have it installed with the other binaries. You could write a program to do this, if you wanted to experiment with it. You would run `make -n uninstall'

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The reason why I mentioned /usr/local is because it is a shared directory. I could also have mentioned /usr. While it seems nice for a package to 100% clean-up after itself, a bug could cause the package uninstall to accidentally remove the

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-08 Thread Frederik Fouvry
,-- On Wed, 3 Mar, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: [...] | It is not always easy to see if a directory is empty. For example, | when NFS is being used, sometimes .nfs files are created in the | directories, so the directory is not really empty. Won't remove commands refuse to clean up a directory if

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:00:14PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:34:19AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: If a package supports creating the directory /usr/local (as Automake does by default) should this directory be recursively removed if a package is uninstalled?

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-04 Thread Tim Van Holder
Daniel Reed wrote: On 2004-03-02T08:34-0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: ) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Hans Deragon wrote: ) When performing a make uninstall, I notice that it only deletes the files, ) not the empty directories. It would be nice that after removing a file, it ) removes all the empty

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-04 Thread Hans Deragon
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:34:19AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: If a package supports creating the directory /usr/local (as Automake does by default) should this directory be recursively removed if a package is uninstalled? Absolutely not! (I rather suspect the question

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2004-03-02T08:34-0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: ) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Hans Deragon wrote: ) When performing a make uninstall, I notice that it only deletes the files, ) not the empty directories. It would be nice that after removing a file, it )

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:34:19AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: If a package supports creating the directory /usr/local (as Automake does by default) should this directory be recursively removed if a package is uninstalled? Absolutely not! (I rather suspect the question was rhetorical, but

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Hans Deragon wrote: When performing a make uninstall, I notice that it only deletes the files, not the empty directories. It would be nice that after removing a file, it removes all the empty directories recursively. For example: If a package supports creating the

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-02 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2004-03-02T08:34-0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: ) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Hans Deragon wrote: ) When performing a make uninstall, I notice that it only deletes the files, ) not the empty directories. It would be nice that after removing a file, it ) removes all the empty directories

feature request make dep

2003-07-28 Thread Markus Werle
Hi! Though I appreciate the automatic dependency tracking mechanism, I sometimes encounter problems with this approach using Intel's C++ compiler. For reasons I do not understand prefixed objects get rebuilt, so either depcomp cannot properly deal with Intel's Compiler (which is handled as if it

Re: feature request make dep

2003-07-28 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:09:21PM +0200, Markus Werle wrote: Hi! Though I appreciate the automatic dependency tracking mechanism, I sometimes encounter problems with this approach using Intel's C++ compiler. For reasons I do not understand prefixed objects get rebuilt, so either depcomp

Re: feature request make dep

2003-07-28 Thread Markus Werle
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:09:21PM +0200, Markus Werle wrote: Hi! Though I appreciate the automatic dependency tracking mechanism, I sometimes encounter problems with this approach using Intel's C++ compiler. For reasons I do not understand prefixed objects

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-05-07 Thread Alex Hornby
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 06:30, Tom Tromey wrote: Nowadays we could probably implement pattern rules purely in automake. Back in the old days we didn't have the machinery to allow this. Automake itself was too primitive. But now it would be more possible, if someone were motivated. Maybe this

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (onceagain)

2002-05-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am Die, 2002-05-07 um 10.26 schrieb Alex Hornby: On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 06:30, Tom Tromey wrote: Nowadays we could probably implement pattern rules purely in automake. Back in the old days we didn't have the machinery to allow this. Automake itself was too primitive. But now it would be

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (onceagain)

2002-05-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Alex == Alex Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Alex Certainly would. The problem I had with suffix rules, was that one Alex invocation of the idl compiler on one .idl file expands into many .h and Alex .cpp files, therefore I needed a suffix rule for each product. So far so Alex good,

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-05-06 Thread Stephan Kulow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 May 2002 07:29, Tom Tromey wrote: Christoph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph Yes and no. Take the example of QT's moc files. They have Christoph to be generated from .h files, if the class defined in the Christoph .h file

Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-05-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Tromey wrote: Alex == Alex Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex I suppose automake could be enhanced so that it automatically Alex knew which files are BUILT_SOURCES by looking back through the Alex suffix rules. Then the small overhead of listing them twice Alex would be removed.

Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
Alex == Alex Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex I suppose automake could be enhanced so that it automatically Alex knew which files are BUILT_SOURCES by looking back through the Alex suffix rules. Then the small overhead of listing them twice Alex would be removed. BUILT_SOURCES are built

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
Christoph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph Yes and no. Take the example of QT's moc files. They have Christoph to be generated from .h files, if the class defined in the Christoph .h file does mention a Q_OBJECT macro. I would love to have Christoph something in my Makefiles which greps

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
Alex == Alex Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Suffix rules should be portable to all makes, its pattern rules Alex that aren't available everywhere. Nowadays we could probably implement pattern rules purely in automake. Back in the old days we didn't have the machinery to allow this.

Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-04-29 Thread christoph.wiedemann
It is common style to generate c/cpp source files from some meta-languages. Examples are lex, yacc, QT's moc, swig, and probably many other tools. AFAIK there is currently no way to handle such files in automake and the recommended way is to write scripts editing Makefile.in's to add seperate

Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-04-29 Thread Alex Hornby
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 10:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is common style to generate c/cpp source files from some meta-languages. Examples are lex, yacc, QT's moc, swig, and probably many other tools. AFAIK there is currently no way to handle such files in automake and the recommended way

Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-04-29 Thread christoph.wiedemann
alex I think the recommended way is to add suffix rules to produce the built alex sources, not edit the Makefile.ins. But is this really portable ? I looked at automake 1.4 info pages, and it tells something about GNU make: Handling new file extensions It is

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (onceagain)

2002-04-29 Thread Alex Hornby
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alex I think the recommended way is to add suffix rules to produce the built alex sources, not edit the Makefile.ins. But is this really portable ? I looked at automake 1.4 info pages, and it tells something about GNU make: Suffix

Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-04-29 Thread christoph.wiedemann
alex Could you check if the automake 1.6.x docs make the same reference to alex GNU make instead of just make when talking about suffix rules? No, they don't. So this is enough if you have a special file type from which source files should be generated. But the moc problem isn't solved

Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-04-29 Thread Alex Hornby
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alex Could you check if the automake 1.6.x docs make the same reference to alex GNU make instead of just make when talking about suffix rules? No, they don't. Great, so no doco patch needed :) So this is enough if you have a special

Re: Feature request.

2001-03-26 Thread Akim Demaille
| I haven't dug into automakes internals.. or I'd consider hacking this up | myself. It seems to me that a useful feature would be a DEFINES primary | that allows extra DEFINES on a per program basis. | | i.e (drawing on a similar example in the documentation) | instead of | bin_PROGRAMS =

Re: Feature request.

2001-03-26 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Akim Demaille" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Robert Collins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 9:11 PM Subject: Re: Feature request. | I haven't dug into automakes internals.. or I'd consider hacking this up