Re: excessive bounces

2004-05-25 Thread Lars Hecking
More succinctly put, the list server is having trouble reliably reaching your machine. Most likely this isn't the list servers problem, it's yours due to either sporadic connectivity on your part, or somewhere between the list server and you, or sporadic DNS service on your part. If you have

.texi.html: Add a touch?

2004-05-25 Thread Akim Demaille
makeinfo does not update timestamps of directories: % ls -dltr maintain.{texi,html} nostromo 15:12 drwxr-xr-x2 akim lrde 4096 2004-05-25 14:38 maintain.html/ -rw-r--r--1 akim lrde16132 2004-05-25 15:01 maintain.texi % LC_ALL=C /bin/sh

Installing split Texinfo HTML files

2004-05-25 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! What is the recommended way to install split HTML documentation from Texinfo? It would be nice if Automake had the bit of magic to copy directories, instead of simple files, in this precise. In addition, there is a small catch when the user does it by herself: I had the following in my

Using and detecting environment variables as flags

2004-05-25 Thread John Ling
Hello, I want to be able to read/check the value of an environment variable in my Makefile.am. This would be a variable that I set as part of the an [action-if-found] in the AC_SEARCH_LIBS method, that I set in configure.ac. How do I reference such a variable? In addition, depending on the

Re: Using and detecting environment variables as flags

2004-05-25 Thread Bruce Korb
John Ling wrote: Hello, I want to be able to read/check the value of an environment variable in my Makefile.am. This would be a variable that I set as part of the an [action-if-found] in the AC_SEARCH_LIBS method, that I set in configure.ac. How do I reference such a variable? In

Re: Using and detecting environment variables as flags

2004-05-25 Thread John Ling
Hi Bruce. So I have the following in my configure.ac: AC_SEARCH_LIBS([compress], [z], ,) So if this Z library exists then I want the build process to include this library during linking. Otherwise I run into errors about not being able to find the 'compress' function in the Z library. I have a

Re: Using and detecting environment variables as flags

2004-05-25 Thread John Ling
I think I've figured out the way to do it: In my Makefile.am I put in a line like 'export CONFIGURE-TIME_LIBS=$(LIBS)' Then in my Makefile.loader I put in my LIBS definition: LIBS = $(CONFIGURE-TIME_LIBS) ... Regards, John Bruce Korb wrote: John Ling wrote: Hello, I want to be able to

Re: Using and detecting environment variables as flags

2004-05-25 Thread Bruce Korb
John Ling wrote: I think I've figured out the way to do it: In my Makefile.am I put in a line like 'export CONFIGURE-TIME_LIBS=$(LIBS)' Then in my Makefile.loader I put in my LIBS definition: LIBS = $(CONFIGURE-TIME_LIBS) ... You might have better luck with CONFIGURE_TIME_LIBS ;-)

Re: Need a way to pass options to libtool

2004-05-25 Thread Albert Chin
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 03:20:35PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Currently Automake Makefiles include text like: LTCXXCOMPILE = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(CXX) $(DEFS) \ $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) \ $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) Notice that