Re: automake -vs- huge projects

2003-12-17 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Bob == Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bob == Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob Another thing that would help reduce Makefile size is to Bob introduce synonyms for subdirectory paths. Better: LZW compression

Re: automake -vs- huge projects

2003-12-17 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Tom == Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adl == Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adl Couldn't we use the (existing) .java.o: inference rule in this adl case? Actually, is there a difference between `%.o: %.java' and adl `.java.o:' beside portability? -- I'm not asking

non-recursive via includes

2003-12-17 Thread Robert Collins
Ok, I plan to push this through a little closer to completion (some feedback from the maintainers would be greatly appreciated !) I've created a branch for this in arch: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/automake--nonrecursive--1.8 The arch repository is at http://people.initd.org/robertc/automake/

Re: automake -vs- huge projects

2003-12-17 Thread Lars Hecking
Paul D. Smith writes: %% Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bf Per-subdirectory rules and definitions can be added in order to bf significantly reduce the amount of redundant code, and to bf re-enable the capability to usefully override parts of the default bf Makefile.in.

HEAD test suite - 6 failures.

2003-12-17 Thread Robert Collins
Are the following tests known to fail (on debian unstable): FAIL: ccnoco.test FAIL: gnits2.test FAIL: gnits3.test FAIL: pr300-lib.test FAIL: pr300-prog.test FAIL: python3.test Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: automake -vs- huge projects

2003-12-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Lars Hecking [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lh What about an automake option then to generate Makefiles for GNU lh make? You might get slightly more takers for an option to allow use of pattern rules, without specifically tying them to GNU make or relying on other _very_ GNU make-centric

Re: automake -vs- huge projects

2003-12-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Lars Hecking wrote: What about an automake option then to generate Makefiles for GNU make? How about a new binary 'automake' program that doesn't require an external 'make' program at all? It would read the Makefile.am files directly ... Bob

Re: automake -vs- huge projects

2003-12-17 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings, On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Lars Hecking wrote: What about an automake option then to generate Makefiles for GNU make? How about a new binary 'automake' program that doesn't require an external 'make' program at all? It would read the

Re: aclocal 1.8 no longer loads overridden macros

2003-12-17 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Schwab wrote: | Here is a testcase: | | $ cat configure.ac | AC_INIT([aclocal-test], [0]) | AC_PROG_CC | AC_OUTPUT | $ cat prog-cc.m4 | undefine([AC_PROG_CC]) | AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_CC], [echo [AC_PROG_CC] dummy]) | $ aclocal -I . | $ cat

Re: aclocal 1.8 no longer loads overridden macros

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Schwab
Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we can't do anything about this in aclocal, apart from documenting this new incompatibility. Since we are obviously relying on --trace more and more, maybe we should prohibit all macros that can affect the trace attribute. I agree. Is

Re: aclocal 1.8 no longer loads overridden macros

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Schwab
Gary V. Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might try a CVS version of GNU m4... from the ChangeLog: 2001-10-10 Gary V. Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~The trace semantics now attach the trace bit to a symbol name. ~For as long as a traceon(`foo') is active, calls to foo will

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