Re: passing autoreconf -I to aclocal -I

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding automake list] According to Clinton Roy on 10/22/2008 5:45 PM: Hello, Clinton, > This patch makes autoreconf pass along -I arguments to aclocal, which > is useful in cases > where m4 files are installed in sensible, but non standard places >

Re: make automake less verbose (try 2)

2008-10-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2008-10-23 19:20, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >Anyway, when we use nonconforming constructs then it's probably safer if >they are default-off, so the developer can choose to enable it and knows >the limitation. I suppose we can have an Automake option 'silent' or so >(better name suggest

Re: make automake less verbose (try 2)

2008-10-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:07:52PM CEST: > > There have been a number of attempts at introducing a quiet behavior to > automake, much like the Linux kernel's kbuild does. And this one looks quite a bit better than the last, I must say. Thank you! I will queue this

Adding custom product support to Automake

2008-10-23 Thread Dmitriy Kargapolov
Hi, I'd like to add custom product support to Automake. Is there any document available describing internal architecture of the Automake? Or may be example how this could be done. Any info/suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

make automake less verbose (try 2)

2008-10-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
There have been a number of attempts at introducing a quiet behavior to automake, much like the Linux kernel's kbuild does. Reference: http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.automake.patches/2007-07/msg00024.html (and others linked from the thread) Known previous attempts always either were POSIX-incompli

Re: Checking for a library ... different ways ...

2008-10-23 Thread Matěj Týč
Hello Michel, ... > Adding to that the check could be implemented in many different ways : > an autoconf macro, calling a script (sdl-config for example), using > pkgconfig... Stick with AC_CHECK_LIBS, see reasons below. > > Side question : a good distro could enforce that each library will > pr

Checking for a library ... different ways ...

2008-10-23 Thread Michel Briand
Hello, a very naive review of many configure.[in,ac] to find out how do others do makes me ask this question : Why the library developer does not provide a consistent way to check for its library with automake/autoconf ? The bad thing is that the library user will have to do the job of 1/ search