Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 2008-11-28 17:21, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> Since LZIP support has appeared apparently out of the blue (no >> prior discussion on this list), and Automake already had LZMA >> support, can someone please explain LZIP vs LZMA and why we now >> hav

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2008-11-29 10:06, Jim Meyering wrote: >Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 2008-11-28 17:21, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >>> Since LZIP support has appeared apparently out of the blue (no >>> prior discussion on this list), and Automake already had LZMA >>> support, can s

Re: simple distcheck fails

2008-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:51:58PM CET: > > Sigh, I so really prefer doing a > git-archive HEAD | tar -C /tmp/whereever -xf- && > run autogen.sh in whereever && > pack up the stuff > over distcheck atm :-P The above is an approximation of 'make dist', not of distcheck

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 2008-11-29 10:06, Jim Meyering wrote: >>Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Friday 2008-11-28 17:21, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Since LZIP support has appeared apparently out of the blue (no prior discussion on this list), a

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: I have been following lzma-utils development closely for some time, and my impression is that xz obviates lzip. I would not want to encourage use of lzip without a convincing argument to the contrary. As soon as there's a beta xz release (i.e., stable f

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2008-11-29 17:04, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> I have been following lzma-utils development closely for some time, >> and my impression is that xz obviates lzip. I would not want to >> encourage use of lzip without a convincing argument to th

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I have been following lzma-utils development closely for some time, >> and my impression is that xz obviates lzip. I would not want to >> encourage use of lzip without a convincing argument to the contrary. >>

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
> On Friday 2008-11-28 21:37, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > > > It makes sense to me that periodically Automake maintainers make an > > evaluation (and with the blessing of the FSF) intentionally > > deprecate generation of certain archive types as new archive types > > are added. The intention would

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 05:13:04PM CET: > Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If new formats are added, the least worthy of the existing supported > > distribution formats should be deprecated and eventually removed. > > This means that if .xz is added that .

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2008-11-29 17:30, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> On Friday 2008-11-28 21:37, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> > >> > It makes sense to me that periodically Automake maintainers make an >> > evaluation (and with the blessing of the FSF) intentionally >> > deprecate generation of certain archive typ

Re: lzip support

2008-11-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: On Friday 2008-11-28 21:37, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It makes sense to me that periodically Automake maintainers make an evaluation (and with the blessing of the FSF) intentionally deprecate generation of certain archive types as new archive types are

Re: building a qt library

2008-11-29 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Craig Sanders wrote: Greetings Lorenzo. I have used the GNU Autotools in the past to build some simple projects which made use of the Qt Library. I prefer to use the GNU Autotools as I find them much more flexible and much more powerful than qmake. As I recall, there are 2 key steps that need

Multilib sources and variables

2008-11-29 Thread NightStrike
Is the following kosher? shell32src=libsrc/shell32.c lib32_LIBRARIES += lib32/libshell32.a lib32_libshell32_a_SOURCES = $shell32src lib32_libshell32_a_CPPFLAGS = -m32 lib64_LIBRARIES += lib64/libshell32.a lib64_libshell32_a_SOURCES = $shell32src Basically, all the sources are the same, so I do

Re: Multilib sources and variables

2008-11-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2008-11-30 01:52, NightStrike wrote: >Is the following kosher? It will produce two 32-bit libraries on all architectures where gcc defaults to a 32-bit output. >shell32src=libsrc/shell32.c > >lib32_LIBRARIES += lib32/libshell32.a >lib32_libshell32_a_SOURCES = $shell32src >lib32_libshe

Re: building a qt library

2008-11-29 Thread Craig Sanders
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Craig Sanders wrote: >> Greetings Lorenzo. >> >> I have used the GNU Autotools in the past to build some simple >> projects which made use of the Qt Library. I prefer to use the GNU >> Autotools as I find them much more flexible and much more powerful

Re: Multilib sources and variables

2008-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* NightStrike wrote on Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 01:52:23AM CET: > Is the following kosher? Yes, except that you need to use $(shell32src) instead of $shell32src in both places. > shell32src=libsrc/shell32.c > > lib32_LIBRARIES += lib32/libshell32.a > lib32_libshell32_a_SOURCES = $shell32src > lib32_