Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-11 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi Karl, Karl Berry wrote: I just learned that in some circumstances automake will insert a COPYING file if it's missing (albeit with a warning), e.g., at make dist? (I didn't look into the precise details.) This is a very old feature and according to NEWS it was actually deprecated in

Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, Peter, * Peter Johansson wrote on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:24:18AM CET: Karl Berry wrote: I just learned that in some circumstances automake will insert a COPYING file if it's missing (albeit with a warning), e.g., at make dist? (I didn't look into the precise details.) Never at

Re: magic variables for included fragments

2008-12-11 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 10 déc. 08 à 21:14, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : Hi Akim, Hi! * Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:21:50AM CET: Ok. And these makes can be fooled to implement the feature by computing the file name at make-time instead of passing a litteral? Not quite sure I follow here

RE: GNU Make Extensions

2008-12-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Duft Markus wrote: There is a philosophical stance that the software we develop is intended for the software users rather than the software developer. There is a problem if build behavior is different for the user than for the software developer. Build behaviour wouldn't

including autoconf paths in source

2008-12-11 Thread Monty Taylor
Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a best practice for getting paths such as locaeldir or datadir into source code. As it stands now in the Makefile I've got: prefix= /usr/local datarootdir= ${prefix}/share localedir = ${datarootdir}/locale To get localedir into a source file, I've got a

Re: including autoconf paths in source

2008-12-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2008-12-11 21:38, Monty Taylor wrote: Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a best practice for getting paths such as locaeldir or datadir into source code. As it stands now in the Makefile I've got: prefix= /usr/local datarootdir= ${prefix}/share localedir = ${datarootdir}/locale To

Re: including autoconf paths in source

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Monty Taylor on 12/11/2008 1:38 PM: Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a best practice for getting paths such as locaeldir or datadir into source code. Best practice is to use the Makefile to do the expansion into another file that