Re: non-recursive make and tests

2004-08-31 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bob, On 31 Aug 2004, at 06:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The $(srcdir) value passed is often essentially useless since it may just be '.'. It is difficult for the Makefile to produce better values except

Re: non-recursive make and tests

2004-08-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote: Many scripts could be one-liners if Automake can produce a per-directory test environment. I made a stab at converting libtool to non-recursive make last year (I think) and had much the same problem. I think the general solution is to move to an

Re: non-recursive make and tests

2004-08-31 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bob! Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote: That sounds great, but in my case the input files are graphic image files so they would be rather unwieldy in here documents. Typically a file is read, processed using an algorithm, and then either its checksum is

some usage questions

2004-08-31 Thread Martin MAURER
Hello all, I am developing a project (http://fireflier.sf.net), which uses automake. I don't know a lot about automake, and so far i didnt find documentation, which helps me with my problem - so any pointers in the correct direction will be appreciated. fireflier is a interactive firewall system

two binaries with different libraries

2004-08-31 Thread Frederik Fouvry
Hi, I have two applications (in different directories) in the configure tree. They need to be linked with a different set of libraries. What is the best way to proceed: - using autoconf, I link the binaries with all libraries, even though that is overkill. - I use *_LDADD. In that case,

Re: two binaries with different libraries

2004-08-31 Thread Andreas Schwab
Frederik Fouvry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - I use *_LDADD. In that case, as far as I know, I cannot check for the libraries in the configuration anymore. Is it sensible to add AC_SUBST(program_LDADD) in configure.ac? Let autoconf define and substitute a variable for each library to be