Re: odd aclocal/automake depends issue

2008-12-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Monty, * Monty Taylor wrote on Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 04:48:30AM CET: > First of all, the answer to my question is going to be "don't do that", > but just in case it isn't... Nope, it isn't, AFAICS. > The problem I was recently trying to solve is this: if I change a > plug.in file, automake

odd aclocal/automake depends issue

2008-12-22 Thread Monty Taylor
Hey all, First of all, the answer to my question is going to be "don't do that", but just in case it isn't... I'm working on a project which allows plugins (project==Drizzle... fork of MySQL, we have inherited the system from them). The plugin system is such that you can drop a directory into the

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2008-12-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2008-12-22 21:36, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >On Monday 2008-12-15 21:19, William Pursell wrote: >> >> >The make info pages mention that $? expands to “all the prerequisites >> >that are newer than the target”, and that sounds like there could be >> >more than just the .c file. >> > >> >I

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2008-12-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:49:05PM CET: > I have not yet heard back here. The previous comments to #2 > sounded quite positive so I thought it might go somewhere > if it be worked on (and this is #3). Yes; sorry for the delay. I will followup on automake-patches

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3.1)

2008-12-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2008-12-15 21:48, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Monday 2008-12-15 21:19, William Pursell wrote: >> >>Thanks for this Jan, it is really nice functionality. I don't >>know if this is a portability issue, but I think it would be nice >>to change $< to $? in this section: >> >>> + 'am