Re: RPM targets

2000-03-08 Thread Bruce Korb
Allan Clark wrote: Perhaps the tack to sail on this component is not "make rpm" but "make package", where a number of files is converted to a ~.spec, prototype/pkginfo, ~.cmpnt/~.pkg/~.prod, or whatever: 1) list of files (source - target) 2) inittab mods 3) rc.d mods 4) copywrite (with

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: --- Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made an archive file named "configure" that contains a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf. ^^ NO

Re: making pre-build headers

2000-10-31 Thread Bruce Korb
Paul Martinolich wrote: I am using automake/autoconf and am in a situation in which I need to use a program to generate a header file using a template file before I can compile the program. Has anyone encountered a similiar situation? What is the best way to accomplish this? Suggestions.

Re: making pre-build headers

2000-10-31 Thread Bruce Korb
"John W. Eaton" wrote: On 31-Oct-2000, Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It is ugly. Especially... Isn't that what the move-if-change script is for? Its a nice try at the problem, but it doesn't work, for the reason you noted. The move-if-change saves the timestamp

Re: crosscompiled .exe (Re: crosscompiling dll linux-mingw32)

2001-04-28 Thread Bruce Korb
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Any argument why that is how it is? See my last mail. I can think of two ways around this. Either [[...]] or libtool would need to build a wrapper program on Windows which would call the wrapper script to set the environment up to load the correct DLLs and

if (! defined $configure_vars{'YACC'})

2001-06-30 Thread Bruce Korb
What is this? Maybe not everyone wants to use your version of AC_PROG_YACC. I use my own: AG_PROG_BYACC because I have a strong preference for BYACC. But, your latest automake is making some sort of attempt to be really rigorous and is sticking its nose into my business. This is wrong. You

EXTRA_DIST = config.h.in

2001-06-30 Thread Bruce Korb
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Why is this now necessary? It did not used to be. Is this intended? Is there an upgrading README file kicking around?

Re: EXTRA_DIST = config.h.in

2001-07-01 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Tromey wrote: Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Why is this now necessary? It did not used to be. Is this Bruce intended? Is there an upgrading README file kicking around? It is probably a newly introduced bug. You don't mention what version you are using

Re: if (! defined $configure_vars{'YACC'})

2001-07-01 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Tromey wrote: This bug report doesn't really have enough information in it for me to respond to it. Nevertheless I will try. Are you angry because automake tries to make sure that YACC is defined as a configure variable? I am not angry. I was. It was the end of a long session.

Re: Automake is broken

2001-11-17 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce What is the brokenness you are talking about? It is Bruce simply that you have failed to add to Bruce MAINTAINERCLEANFILES the name of a derived file. It's not MAINTAINERCLEANFILES at all! It's CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES. I found most of the non-removed files

What is the correct way of handling generated docs?

2001-12-29 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, For years I have been maintaining this tool that extracts its own documentation. Projects that use Doxygen and Java doc tools have basically the same issue. The problem is that the makeinfo stuff makes the erroneous assumption that mumble.texi is a source document. From that bad

Re: What is the correct way of handling generated docs?

2001-12-29 Thread Bruce Korb
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Can't you simply write a Make rule that will produce .info file [...] Am I missing something? Yes. :-( Without endlessly convoluted change (dependency) checks, the docs get rebuilt causing the .info to be rebuilt causing distcheck to choke. So, without distcheck

Re: What is the correct way of handling generated docs?

2001-12-30 Thread Bruce Korb
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Is it out of the question to discuss possible alternatives to your current setup, so that the sources will be maintained in Texinfo? That is what I was trying to do. :-) BTW, Doxygen does not (yet) have a way to emit texinfo docs. I am trying to fix that by making it

Re: What is the correct way of handling generated docs?

2001-12-30 Thread Bruce Korb
Bruce Korb wrote: What do you think about this unanswered bug report: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2001/msg00423.html (personally I'd vote for solution 5) Personally, I think it came two or three years after I initially raised the issue, but now I'll go have a look

Re: guile.m4 documentation

2002-01-05 Thread Bruce Korb
Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: i've added doc/ref/autoconf.texi, and @included it in Part II (both stable and unstable). seems to be ok... one weirdness, however: in doc/ref/Makefile.am, i tried adding only autoconf.texi to guile_TEXINFOS (and omitting generated file autoconf-macros.texi), but

Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case

2002-02-01 Thread Bruce Korb
but surprises, please. ... Conclusion, Akim is very patronizing accommodating ? in offering the fourth optional parameter in AC_INIT. -- Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Re: Autoconf 2.53 is released

2002-03-08 Thread Bruce Korb
Akim Demaille wrote: The Autoconf team is extremely pleased to announce Autoconf 2.53. We hope it will address your problems, and make your life easier. - Double quoting macros AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_RUN. FYI: this will teach me for upgrading without

Re: maintainer mode

2002-04-11 Thread Bruce Korb
options. :-) -- Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Re: Substitutions in _SOURCES

2002-04-12 Thread Bruce Korb
! You're ported to a new engine. -- Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Re: Seeking simple example for shallow tree

2002-04-12 Thread Bruce Korb
of approaches: 1. Use an IDE (like KDevelop) that builds skeletal infrastructure for you automatically 2. Use a prototype project generator (like autoproj). -- Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Re: make install doesn't?

2002-04-13 Thread Bruce Korb
reliability 3. the versions we think are stable, but may yet bite. Thanks, Alexandre... - Bruce -- Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Re: Mostly similar library generation

2002-04-15 Thread Bruce Korb
) -DSIM -c -o barsim.lo \ `test -f 'bar.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`bar.c -- Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Automake spam since last night

2002-05-04 Thread Bruce Korb
-0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:41:57 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:47:26 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:30:46 + Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 10:32:08 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Bruce Korb first initial + last

Re: Feature request: meta files wildcards (once again)

2002-05-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Tromey wrote: Alex == Alex Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex I suppose automake could be enhanced so that it automatically Alex knew which files are BUILT_SOURCES by looking back through the Alex suffix rules. Then the small overhead of listing them twice Alex would be removed.

Re: Security vulnerability in automake

2002-06-07 Thread Bruce Korb
Allan Clark wrote: This is really not an issue; There are a lot of sloppy people around. I had a make check test divert its output to /dev/null, only the test also changed the permissions of the output file, too. Someone complained that /dev/null became r--r--r--. It might be useful to choke

Re: Generating HeaderFiles

2002-07-08 Thread Bruce Korb
Enrico Ng wrote: I am trying to make an automake file to create libtool libraries. The problem is that the libraries I would like to create depend on header files that have to generated. How do I do this in automake? With normal make dependency rules. Below is my Makefile.am for xml2ag.

Re: Generating HeaderFiles

2002-07-08 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Tromey wrote: The easiest way is to list your headers in BUILT_SOURCES. Then write the rules to build the headers. I've found that more problematic. I wind up with make files that always rebuild certain targets.

Does missing live here?

2002-07-09 Thread Bruce Korb
: *, ,' + done +fi ;; -v|--v|--ve|--ver|--vers|--versi|--versio|--version) = = Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Re: Does missing live here?

2002-07-10 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Tromey wrote: Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce I would like to add this so I don't get in trouble for having Bruce my own missing script:-) Could you post some rationale explaining what you use this patch for and why? I want to use missing for programs

Re: Generating two binaries

2002-07-11 Thread Bruce Korb
' ) $ crude but effective. Say, Tom, is there a FAQ for this? I don't see a faq reference in http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ Bruce Korb first initial + last name at gnu dot org AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net

Re: Generating two binaries

2002-07-11 Thread Bruce Korb
Harlan Stenn wrote: What about the ctags/etags example in the automake info pages? What about putting a FAQ pointer on the software/automake page that points to this kind of info? :-) I just don't know how to use faq-o-matic stuff, or I'd whip something up. == Bruce Korb first initial

Single question FAQ

2002-07-13 Thread Bruce Korb
Attached are three files: 1. automakefaq.def is a list of questions and answers. The list is one question long. :-) It points into the automake documentation. 2. automakefaq.tpl facilitates pointing into the documentation by adjusting symbolic names (e.g. Program and Library

Re: Alternate automake output?

2002-07-24 Thread Bruce Korb
William Robertson wrote: On 23 July 2002, Tom Tromey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: | William Good, except that configuration runs are abysmally slow. | | Have you enabled caching? That is the first thing I'd try. It will | help but won't solve the problem; each configure script has a

distcleancheck_listfiles

2002-07-27 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, I *believe* I followed the documented procedures for permitting the existence of regenerated distributed files. The result is this warning message from find: Makefile.am: distcleancheck_listfiles = \ find -type f -exec sh -c 'test -f $(scrdir)/{} || echo {}' Shell output from make

Re: Option no-gzip

2002-07-28 Thread Bruce Korb
Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 02:25, Bruce Korb wrote: Akim Demaille wrote: Would that be accepted? For some of my projects, I don't need nor want the .gz, I just want the .bz2. If you are going to parameterize it at all, then parameterize it completely. e.g

Option Consistency

2002-07-30 Thread Bruce Korb
Sorry. Here is a possible answer about *how*. build distdir for f in $DIST_FORMATS; do case $f in gz)... bzip2) ... zip) ... ... esac done erase distdir gz is a suffix, bzip2 is the name of the program that does the compression and zip

Re: Option Consistency

2002-07-30 Thread Bruce Korb
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 07:46:18AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: [...] you still need to have both [suffix and compressor-program name] be specifiable so you are not boxed into cutting a new release in order to support a combination you didn't plan for. for f

Re: PATCH + What might cause this failure?

2002-08-20 Thread Bruce Korb
Eric wrote: Not sure whether this is relevent or not, but it might offer a clue. [[...]] - automake --add-missing didn't think install-sh was in fact missing, because it could find the copy in pkg-root, because: [[...]] Workaround: add this to pkg-root/distrib/configure.ac:

Re: PATCH + What might cause this failure?

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce Oh, PacBell seems to be eating my emails This is over now, but I'll need to resubscribe to automake Bruce So, here it [the patch] is: Where? :-) I got to writing and left off the patch. Actually, even more absent minded, I was looking at the

PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Why don't you simply use DIST_SUBDIRS? Bruce 2. Even now that I've read it, using it would mean taking over Bruce an automatable chore from automake. I don't get this. Which chore should be automated? Maintaining the contents of DIST_SUBDIRS. If I make an assignment to it, then I am

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce SUBDIRS = MAYBE_BAR Bruce EXTRA_DIST = NOT_MAYBE_BAR Odd. I don't understand how you get duplicates this way. It all has to do with configuring the Makefile incorporated in the distributed subdirectory. There is no way to do it conditionally.

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Richard Boulton wrote: automake will be able to calculate the correct value for DIST_SUBDIRS by taking all possible values for SUBDIRS. So: if BAR MAYBE_BAR = bar fi SUBDIRS = foo $(MAYBE_BAR) DIST_SUBDIRS is automatically calculated as foo bar Now it is clear to me. I did not

Re: PATCH for make distcheck failure

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Richard Boulton wrote: :-( Read the source, Luke Hmm: that documentation is fairly unhelpful. It was last updated 13-Feb-98: I'm guessing that was before DIST_SUBDIRS was invented. misleading is more than just unhelpful, though I do understand that this is an unfunded project. Thanks

bootstrapping blocksort bombs

2002-08-21 Thread Bruce Korb
The log: bootstrapping in /home/bkorb/ag/bs RUN: rm -f config.cache RUN: libtoolize --force You should add the contents of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'. RUN: mv -f config.guess config.sub ltmain.sh cfg/. RUN: aclocal -I cfg RUN: autoheader autoheader: `config-h.in'

Re: installing config.h

2002-09-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: Thien-Thi Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (imprecisely): you can process the headers on install. sorry, i forgot to emphasize: the headers processed are those other than config.h -- the horrible approach described does not require you to install config.h.

Re: Automake 1.6.3 issue

2002-09-10 Thread Bruce Korb
Akim Demaille wrote: | Cool. Since we do not need amk 1.6.3 for our build, | I will change the configure.ac requirement to 1.6.2, | which does work. What ... ??? The bug I'm referring to is only the fact that the error message did not say `1.6.3 is a version of Automake'. There is no

Re: Automake 1.6.3 issue

2002-09-10 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre wrote: /usr/local/share/automake-1.6/am/header-vars.am: \ pkgincludedir was already defined in condition TRUE, \ which implies condition INSTALL_SNPRINTFV_TRUE You are alowed to overwrite the variable if you want, but only in the condition where it was initially defined.

Re: Automake 1.6.3 issue

2002-09-11 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Tromey wrote: Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adl but you can't do adl if INSTALL_SNPRINTFV adl pkgincludedir = something adl endif I've long thought that we should, eventually, support the latter use. It seems to have a clearly defined meaning. And it is even

Re: Bootstrap script for CVS Automake

2002-09-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Pavel Roskin wrote: I won't object if this script is renamed to autogen.sh I will, tho. :-)

Re: Bug in distcheck target?

2002-09-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! At some point, make distcheck would simply call make dist and run the standalone distcheck script with predefined DISTCHECK_FLAGS. YES!

Re: Automake 1.6d available (beta for Automake 1.7)

2002-09-22 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce My preference would be this: Could you send this to the list? Alright: I would really like to see the auto* tools packages (autoconf, automake and libtool) each adopt several of their worst clients' packages for regression testing. As each release is

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Thomas Dickey wrote: In my opinion it is prohibitive and stupid It's equally stupid to . I think everyone knows that autoreconf is not ready for prime time. From someone who gets cranky when working code breaks because someone thought I shouldn't do things that way, let me say

module level flags

2002-09-28 Thread Bruce Korb
As best as I can determine, there is no easy way to say, do not optimize this particular module. The best way would be with a #pragma around the problematical function, but I'll be happy with anything that does not disable optimization for the entire program and does not prevent someone from

Re: module level flags

2002-09-28 Thread Bruce Korb
Tim Prince wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 16:05, Bruce Korb wrote: As best as I can determine, there is no easy way to say, do not optimize this particular module. The best way would be with a #pragma around the problematical function, but I'll be happy with anything that does

Re: autogen-5.4.5 build bug

2002-10-13 Thread Bruce Korb
Treeve Jelbert wrote: stray 'no' in link spec --- Hi Libtool ( automake?), Here's the Configuration: Source code location: . Compiler: gcc Compiler flags: -march=athlon -mmmx -m3dnow -O3 Host System Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Install path:

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-13 Thread Bruce Korb
Tom Lord wrote: * Maintaining the build tools (autoconf etc) is currently too hard. The maintainers have to struggle to write portable shell code; Those constraints really matter to a small number of packages (the bootstrap packages) but could be reasonably relaxed for other

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-13 Thread Bruce Korb
Pavel Roskin wrote: For example, there are two libraries, A and B, and only one can be used. There are at least (not counting --with-A=/path/to/A) 2 possibilities for each library (present and absent) and 3 possibilities for each option, (--with-A, -without-A, no option), which makes 36

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-14 Thread Bruce Korb
Dean Povey wrote: The easiest way would be for ./configure to find the C compiler and build a simple utility binary from source, then use that for the rest of the configuration. Problem is that by the time you've figured out how to do that, you're most the way done. Now, if you depended

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-15 Thread Bruce Korb
So you are proposing to trade in end user convenience (package builds on any system out of the box) for autotools maintainer convenience (maintainers can assume a fixed environment). I don't think that's a good idea. It goes completely contrary to the goals of the autotools. In fact, I

Re: Library creation command

2002-10-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Matthias Dietrich wrote: Unfortunately we run into a big problem. Automake assumes that a library is built by calling ar cru and at least one of our machine has a toolset where ar is not available. We have another tool to build a library, it's not called ar and it doesn't take cru as

Warning message: THANK YOU

2002-10-12 Thread Bruce Korb
This is great! All warnings/errors should be like this:-) [[ I just loaded AM 1.7 ]] agen5/Makefile.am:59: `YFLAGS' is a user variable, you should not override it; agen5/Makefile.am:59: use `AM_YFLAGS' instead.

makeinfo build rule changes?

2002-10-12 Thread Bruce Korb
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/snprintfv/doc' make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/snprintfv/doc' Oops :-( I'm sure it's my fault for misusing something or other. God only knows what it may be, though. It's not my code. Bruce Korb first initial

Re: automake and rpcgen

2002-11-10 Thread Bruce Korb
Paul J wrote: I wish to produce a library from two xdr files, datarpc.x and visualrpc.x. Originally, the following GNU make commands produced the correct output files which, by means of a hand crafted makefile (using g++ as the compiler), compiled the rpcgen produced files into .o's:

Re: getting a locally built library

2002-11-13 Thread Bruce Korb
David Bacher wrote: Hi Bruce, I'm having a problem building the latest autogen 5.4.6 on Mac OS X, while the old autogen is installed. When linking the new autogen executable, it finds the old (installed) verison of libopts instead of the new (local) libopts library. This causes

Re: A target_os conditionally applied -lfoo switch

2002-11-14 Thread Bruce Korb
Ralf Corsepius wrote: Am Mit, 2002-11-13 um 19.08 schrieb Earnie Boyd: I need to add a library specific to a target_os. I've tried several possible techniques and can't get cooperation from the tools. What I want is something similar to: target_os := target_os ifeq

Re: getting a locally built library

2002-11-14 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -L/sw/lib -o autogen \ -export-dynamic -lguile *.o -L/sw/lib -lguile -lm \ -L../autoopts/.libs -lopts -ldl ld: Undefined symbols: _aopts_alloc _aopts_realloc _aopts_strdup make[1]: *** [autogen] Error

Re: A target_os conditionally applied -lfoo switch

2002-11-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: Thanks Bruce, I used a modification of your suggestion: configure.ac if test x$target_os == xmingw32; then WINSOCK=-lws2_32 fi AC_SUBST(WINSOCK) /configure.ac Makefile.am LDADD := @LTLIBINTL@ @WINSOCK@ /Makefile.am Actually, your Makefile.in will contain

Re: -rm -f core.$pid

2003-02-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: What do people thinks about Automake's removal of core dumps? I tend to think it's a misfeature. Only 'cuz it's implemented for the wrong target. For one thing, this doesn't match the documentation. Quizz: which of the following targets do you think Automake

Comment on: FAQ chapter for the manual

2003-02-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Why doesn't Automake support wildcards? === Developers are lazy. People often they would like to use wildcards in `Makefile.am's so they don't need to remember they have to update `Makefile.am's every time they add, delete, or rename a file.

Re: Comment on: FAQ chapter for the manual

2003-02-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Hi Bruce! Hi, ALexandre! :-) I think we agree. The last sentence in this section was meant to imply such a patch would be considered, would someone mind enough to work it out. I missed that nuance. :) Bruce We have philosophical differences.

Distcheck: cannot create regular file

2003-02-15 Thread Bruce Korb
At the end of this log, you'll see lines like this: cp: cannot create regular file \ `blocksort-1.4.2/libopts/.deps/save.Plo': Permission denied It used to work, of course, but I was persuaded to upgrade automake/autoconf/libtool again. Silly me. I should learn. It's as aggravating as heck.

Re: Distcheck: cannot create regular file

2003-02-15 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce cp: cannot create regular file \ Bruce `blocksort-1.4.2/libopts/.deps/save.Plo': Permission denied Simply don't distribute these files. Distributing files marked read-only or in read-only directories really ought not cause a distribution failure. It is

Re: backward compatability of tools

2003-02-16 Thread Bruce Korb
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Hi, I've found in the past bugs in software are often found on one platform that don't seem to get noticed on another. For this reason I just tried to build gcc-2.0 on an old Sun SPARCstation 20 running SunOs 4.1.4 (ie hardware/software about 10 years old) to

Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Paul Eggert wrote: Alex Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a related note, does the restriction of not using shell functions in autoconf macros still remain, For Autoconf itself, we still avoid shell functions. But of course you can use shell functions in your own macros, if you

Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Charles Wilson wrote: I think the winning argument was as follows: for archaic systems whose shell does not support shfuncs, 'somebody' should create a snapshot of bash with a frozen autotool version That's the argument that has been put forth over and over for years. I couldn't

Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Harlan Stenn wrote: I guess it's time for me to chime in. Dave Mills expect NTP to compile on anything he can get his hands on. That's very nice. Why does he need to do this? I mean, the compelling reason? I've been lucky so far in that some of the older gear he has is breaking. I do,

Re: Add support for generating HTML docs a` la PDF, etc.

2003-02-25 Thread Bruce Korb
Richard Dawe wrote: The problem, with html, is that nobody agree about what the ouput should be. I'd say that if we support html, we should use the default makeinfo output (which is to split on nodes), and let the user say `AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS = --no-split' when wanted. This is what we do

Re: Desired feature

2003-12-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I would be happy if I could do this: I tend to disagree with you on this point. I will agree if the system has three levels plus a way to provide overrides.. Automake should support o inheritance of standard

Re: [MAD SCIENCE EXPERIMENT]: Replace some libtool functionalitywith handcoded C

2003-12-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Mohan Embar wrote: Hi Alexandre, I'm not all that surprised your C program is much faster that the shell script. For starters, it fails to support all of libtool's configure-time options, such as --disable-static, --disable-shared, --with-pic, as well as their per-compilation equivalent

Re: New snprintfv on CVS

2004-01-02 Thread Bruce Korb
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Paolo, (Hi Bruce, how's it going?) Hi, again, Gary - another autogen is pending -- i18n getopt_long stuff Paolo Bonzini wrote: | I've finally managed to put on CVS the last 1.1 prerelease, Hi Paolo, I can't get it. I keep getting invalid data from server tho

Re: New snprintfv on CVS

2004-01-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Paolo Bonzini wrote: I understood the problem was with snprintfv, not with autogen. What are you using INFO_DEPS for? I think it is undocumented and internal to automake, maybe autogen_texi_DEPENDENCIES or something like that works (but I do not know if it actually exists...). My guess is

Re: Expressing dependencies

2004-01-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Laurence Finston wrote: The problem is that make makes certain assumptions that don't apply when CWEB is used. `ctangle filename.web' creates filename.c. Additional files can also be written. In 3DLDF, each filename.web also writes filename.h. [...] However, not all changes to a .web file

Re: html texinfo install?

2004-02-17 Thread Bruce Korb
Karl Berry wrote: Hi folks, The obvious directory would be $(datadir)/html by analogy with $(datadir)/info, but it seems a bit arrogant to use such a generic name Not arrogant so much as conflicting with where folks might want to stash their own stuff. for something which only relates to

Re: html texinfo install?

2004-02-17 Thread Bruce Korb
Karl Berry wrote: 1. Please shorten to html (as is done for ps) I'm not sure. By Bob's argument, `html' could be useful to stand for any sort of HTML generation, if there is non-Texinfo documentation involved. Yeah! That's the idea! Type in, ``make html'' and any html-making gets

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 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: AutoGen-5.6.2 w/o libxml2 build problem

2004-06-18 Thread Bruce Korb
Deneys S. Maartens wrote: Hi Bruce When compiling the autogen source without having libxml2 available, and then doing a `make dist' creates a broken distribution package which does not include the xml2ag/ subdirectory. A configure of the broken dist package fails with the following error

Re: AutoGen-5.6.2 w/o libxml2 build problem

2004-06-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Any recipient of the package should have the ability to become a package maintainer without removing site/developer specific hacks. I hadn't considered a make dist for copying around a locally fixed version. Certainly, one cannot really maintain a package for which they

Re: License of m4/ltoptions.m4

2004-11-10 Thread Bruce Korb
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Here's another: And another: ``The following specific files are hereby deemed public domain and you may use them any way you see fit.'' After all, these things are only useful with the Auto* tools and I do not believe that any of them are state secrets, so why spend a

Re: License of m4/ltoptions.m4

2004-11-11 Thread Bruce Korb
Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:57 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute this file as part of a package that automatically derives from this file a configuration script (and perhaps some associated

What might cause this infinite recursion?

2004-11-20 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi all, This is new behavior with the latest released automake, and it happens on Solaris but not Linux. The Makefile.in produced causes Solaris make to choke and GNU make to think it is happy but do the following: /bin/ksh ../libtool --mode=link /net/megami/opt/apps/forte62/SUNWspro/bin/cc

Re: What might cause this infinite recursion?

2004-11-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Alexandre! Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: gmake[5]: Warning: File `autogen' has modification time 1.8 s in the future [...] I suggest you complain to your system administrator. I have. They don't want to set up the ntpd. In any event, even when I build on the NFS server, I get the

Re: inscrutable recursion magic

2004-11-21 Thread Bruce Korb
I decided to see what would happen when I changed: man_MANS = autogen.1 into: nodit_man_MANS = autogen.1 I got some curious stuff: install-man1: $(man1_MANS) $(man_MANS) @$(NORMAL_INSTALL) test -z $(man1dir) || $(mkdir_p) $(DESTDIR)$(man1dir) @list='$(man1_MANS)

Re: RFC for new FAQ entry: Flag Variables Ordering

2004-11-30 Thread Bruce Korb
Leonardo Boiko wrote: Maybe you could add a small clarification: that LDADD and LIBADD are automake-specific variables. As far as I understand, there is a mumble_LDADD and a LDADD, but not an AM_LDADD, and plain LDADD is not from the user. Thus LDADD and LIBADD are entirely different from

29, 900 English pages for Libtool library used but LIBTOOL is undefined

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Maybe someone can figure out a better error message, please? For those that found *this* message because of the subject line: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2004-07/msg00083.html Stephan although AC_PROG_LIBTOOL _is_ present in configure.ac. Therefore it means

Re: Libtool library used but LIBTOOL is undefined

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Korb
On Monday 06 December 2004 01:18 pm, Stepan Kasal wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:57:50PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: Subject: 29, 900 English pages for Libtool library used but LIBTOOL is undefined google is exaggerating, of course. Of course it is. That doesn't mean

Re: configure-generated *.in's

2004-12-31 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Stepan, The solution is to not list the file in the list of files to be configured. Instead, in your Makefile.am: mumble-sh.in : $(mumble_PREDECESSORS) create-mumble-sh-in mumble.sh : mumble-sh.in $(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/config.status --file mumble.sh:mumble-sh.in

Never mind: Re: What is meant by, XXX does not appear

2005-01-08 Thread Bruce Korb
RTFM: The shell CONDITION (suitable for use in a shell `if' statement) is evaluated when `configure' is run. Note that you must arrange for _every_ `AM_CONDITIONAL' to be invoked every time `configure' is run - if `AM_CONDITIONAL' is run conditionally (e.g., in a shell

Re: What is meant by, XXX does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL?

2005-01-08 Thread Bruce Korb
On Saturday 08 January 2005 01:53 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce The problem is is that XXX *DOES* actually appear in an AM_CONDITIONAL. But these macros are not evaluated because of your quoting, so effectively XXX is not defined

Re: What is meant by, XXX does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL?

2005-01-10 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Stepan, On Monday 10 January 2005 06:00 am, Stepan Kasal wrote: So it's usually enough to write Well, I'd use if [some-shell-script-test] then ... AM_CONDITIONAL([XXX], [true]) else ... AM_CONDITIONAL([XXX], [false]) fi This is more-or-less exactly what is going on,

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