Re: INSTALL_DATA += -p

2020-11-04 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
be different then this is a bit trickier (call touch in a loop until the timestamp changes). Thanks. I didn't think/know about the (potential) truncation. -- Thien-Thi Nguyen --- (defun responsep (query) ; (2020) Software Liber

INSTALL_DATA += -p

2020-11-03 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
do this? -- Thien-Thi Nguyen --- (defun responsep (query) ; (2020) Software Libero (pcase (context query) ; = Dissenso Etico (`(technical ,ml) (correctp ml)) ...)) 748E

bug#43819: two FAILs for "make check" -- automake 1.16.2

2020-10-05 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
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Re: Part 2: Add Cleanfiles for User Defined Special Sources [Re: How to add new Makefile-Rules through Configure?]

2015-03-10 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
for the Makefile.am file(s). To be precise, all this should happen before calling autoreconf. If you can maintain this phase separation, life is easier. -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical

Re: make check clean up

2014-11-27 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
if the daemon isn't running; the exit 77 if the daemon isn't running to skip that stop group. [details] Thanks for describing this Autotest setup. I will experiment. -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions

make check clean up

2014-11-23 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
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Re: stripping directory component from installation file pathname

2014-03-10 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
and then replace the usual make install flow via: install-data-local: $(MAKE) install-data-am intreelib= This would mimic the -data side of make install (i think). -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical

Re: Want make check to test shared, static lib

2013-11-14 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
behavior) between a static and shared-lib build. That sounds weird to me. What am i missing? -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list

Re: Can automake move aclocal.m4 into subdirectory?

2013-04-22 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
it, prompted by your query (so thanks for asking!), however. Does it work? -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 pgp2gxOjWJRrL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [IMPORTANT] Savannah issues

2013-02-24 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
://www.gnuvola.org/u/2013/01/24h09.html. The point is: For timely resolution, you need to take direct action. Let RCS's (ever-growing) lacuna serve as a warning! -- Thien-Thi Nguyen . GPG key: 4C807502 . NB: ttn at glug dot org is not me

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-01 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
to focus on Automake-NG) from the throng of candidates (one hopes), and then, after a suitable ramp-up period, let the new maintainer decide the fate of the code. [cc - to, trimmed] -- Thien-Thi Nguyen . GPG key: 4C807502 . NB: ttn at glug dot

Re: Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-01 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
to focus on Automake-NG) from the throng of candidates (one hopes), and then, after a suitable ramp-up period, let the new maintainer decide the fate of the code. [cc - to, trimmed] -- Thien-Thi Nguyen . GPG key: 4C807502 . NB: ttn at glug dot

bug#13507: small patch for 1.13.1 t/lisp-flags.sh

2013-01-20 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Here is a suitable ChangeLog entry: 2013-01-20 Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org (tiny change) Don't get fooled when running make check inside Emacs. Some versions of Emacs set the env var 'EMACS' to 't' for child processes. Thus, when running from inside Emacs

bug#12860: avoiding ‘check-recursive’

2012-11-10 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
-local’, but that failed. Please see: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/serveez.git/commit?id=f504730d3f for details and the suboptimal workaround. Am i missing something? -- Thien-Thi Nguyen . GPG key: 4C807502 . NB: ttn at glug dot org

Re: 1.12 bugfix: unset local var to prevent env influence

2012-04-26 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com () Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:33:08 +0200 Do you have an environment variable named 'd'? I like minimalism, but this seems a little over-the-top ;-) I live in Emacs and ‘C-x C-f $ d RET’ is a nice way to get there quickly. Attached is

Re: pattern rules example

2010-08-17 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de () Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:33:15 +0200 there are a couple of reasons I'd prefer a slightly different example: [reasons] Thanks for the prompt review; i agree redundant overlap is undesirable. [...] SUFFIXES [...] Ack. Can we find a

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-15 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() samson.pierre samson.pie...@laposte.net () Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:09:50 +0200 (CEST) %.bmp: %.xcf $(GIMP) -i -b '(xcf-bmp $ $@)' -b '(gimp-quit 0)' Is there an equivalent or anything else which can help me to write this rule avoiding this warning message? I think here you can

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-15 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
? _ From 7b70f8b27057c5b9a0f621dcfd5064c5d90947dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:14:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document a common conversion for GNU make pattern rules. * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Expand on GNU make pattern rules

playing w/ GCC warnings

2008-08-13 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
What do people do to make experimentation w/ GCC warnings easy? In Guile-PG's configure.in, there is: |## If we're using GCC, ask for aggressive warnings. |if test x$GCC = xyes ; then | AGGRESSIVE_WARNINGS=-std=gnu99 -pedantic | for x in all extra float-equal declaration-after-statement \ |

Re: installing only shared lib

2008-02-12 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] () Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:36:29 +0100 Please, do not propagate ugly solutions, unless you know that a clean one does not exist. It's hard to know if a clean one does not exist; i don't maintain these tools and don't generally dig into them more deeply than

Re: installing only shared lib

2008-02-12 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
# # Copyright (C) 2007 Thien-Thi Nguyen # # This file is part of ttn-do, released under the terms of the # GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software # Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later # version. There is NO WARRANTY. See file COPYING for details

Re: AC_PROG_CC sets CFLAGS, what about AM_CFLAGS?

2007-09-15 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Benoit SIGOURE [EMAIL PROTECTED] () Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:12:28 +0200 OK look, here is how it goes AFAIK: - You want to set project-wide flags, use AM_CFLAGS - Your user wants to set project-wide flags, it does: ./configure CFLAGS=... - If your user didn't set project-wide

AC_PROG_CC sets CFLAGS, what about AM_CFLAGS?

2007-08-27 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Benoit SIGOURE [EMAIL PROTECTED] () Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:48:16 +0200 AM_CFLAGS is reserved for developers. It's not a problem if the user overrides the default value of CFLAGS since CFLAGS is reserved for the user. i understand, and am actually trying achieve, this. my point is that

--print-libdir request

2007-04-17 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
some of my autogen.sh (bootstrap script) files use the construct: amprefix=`automake --help | sed '/^Usage:/!d;s/Usage: //;s,/bin/automake.*,,'` amlibdir=`ls -d ${amprefix}/share/automake-* | tail -1` for f in install-sh INSTALL COPYING ; do ln -sf ${amlibdir}/$f done this is not

Re: --print-libdir request

2007-04-17 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] () Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:58:11 +0200 You mean, other than `automake --add-missing' (or, short: -a)? not really. Or is it that you'd need something like automake --add-missing --install-even-if-i-do-not-use-automake yes. (for some projects i

PATCH: doc/automake.texi

2006-04-26 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
ChangeLog entry: * doc/automake.texi (Dependency Tracking Evolution): Fix typo. --- automake.texi 17 Apr 2006 12:14:07 - 1.134 +++ automake.texi 26 Apr 2006 03:03:41 - @@ -10420,7 +10420,7 @@ @item @command{makedepend} This was a commonly-used method in the

Re: how to run a test file with command line options...

2005-06-17 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Ed Hartnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy all! If I have some tests, and want to run them with command line options, how do I do it? For example, I have to have a shell script to run tst_parallel below, because it needs to be called with the poe command, and some env vars set. In

Re: How to get AC_DEFINE to generate a macro, e.g., #define incr(x) ((x)+1) ?

2005-06-09 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Fred Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can one get AC_DEFINE to define a variable with an argument list? I want to do something like this: AC_DEFINE(incr(x),((x)+1),increment) i think either you misunderstand AC_DEFINE or i misunderstand you. where in the documentation is the

Re: executable scripts produced by AC_OUTPUT?

2005-05-22 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Irek Szczesniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way of achieving my goal? i believe this can be handled completely by autoconf, w/o involving automake. try placing in configure.ac: AC_CONFIG_FILES([fsclient.sh],[chmod +x fsclient.sh]) AC_OUTPUT tested w/ GNU Autoconf 2.59. thi

Re: [ot]wiki for auto* tools?

2004-05-21 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Jay West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll host it in exchange for someone taking 60 seconds to answer my previous post ;) probably if you host such a wiki, your questions (or related ones) will receive wider review and potentially useful answers will show up sooner. thi

autoconf 1.x for vms maintainership request

2004-04-27 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
i posted the following to the autoconf list: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00131.html but perusing the archive shows that list is mostly full of (other) junk, hence this post, in case autoconf maintainers have decided to avoid that list. thi

Re: autoconf 1.x for vms maintainership request

2004-04-27 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maintenance should really include upgrading to the current version of autoconf. that's probably something a maintainer decides, hopefully w/ some input from the users. Is there any VMS support in the older version that is missing in the current

Re: automake -vs- huge projects

2003-12-18 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you're willing to require GNU make then I'm quite confidant you could write automake as nothing more than a suite of GNU make macros and functions. I doubt there would be any need for code changes to GNU make at all. i think it would be

Re: Help Requests

2003-12-09 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
i see from the previous post that you use a manual VPATH methodology. there are two approaches you can try: 1/ undo the unorthodoxy (move auto* files to top-level dir) 2/ prefix relative paths (such as ../../) w/ $(srcdir) probably 1/ is the best for minimizing gray hairs long term, although it

Re: Should -i mkdir?

2003-09-25 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, should automake -i make sure the directory exists and create it if needed? Or that would be considered unsafe (a typo in the name, et voil=E0, a nasty dir pollutes your codeshore). perhaps only if --force is also specified, else signal error.

Re: how to change the behaviour of make check?

2003-09-17 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Ireneusz SZCZESNIAK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I only want make to ignore errors from running tests, not all errors. My test scripts are automatically generated by make and then run. If make fails to generate such a script, then I want make to report the error and stop. there is

Re: how to change the behaviour of make check?

2003-09-17 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:07:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Ireneusz SZCZESNIAK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah! But still I want the output of make check to be clean. When a test fails, then I expect to see: FAIL: test.sh. in this case the only thing i can suggest is to post-process the Makefile to

Re: zonking .la and .a files

2003-09-13 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
argh! it figures, the answer is actually in autoconf: AC_DISABLE_STATIC AM_PROG_LIBTOOL sorry for the noise. thi

Re: Is a ChangeLog file realistic if /lots/ of developers adding/lots/ of changes?

2003-06-27 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:57:26 -0700 This overhead will take work and commitment from people. How much improvement can this deliver?? 10%? 50%? 500%? the way to look at it is that you WANT work and commitment from people, but you want the right kind of work

Re: Is a ChangeLog file realistic if /lots/ of developers adding/lots/ of changes?

2003-06-20 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:52:25 +0200 (CEST) That is actually a very good idea! that's why they pay me the big bux (oh wait... ;-) thi

Re: Is a ChangeLog file realistic if /lots/ of developers adding/lots/ of changes?

2003-06-19 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have any advice or ways to streamline the process I would very much like to hear it. spend one hour a week as a group reading change logs (and only change logs -- no code!) for the week preceding. discuss applicability of changes, especially whether or not the

Re: software build

2003-03-30 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to invite you to this project. how do you handle cycles in the tree? how do you handle multiple roots? how do you handle transient relations? thi

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-19 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
sounds about right -- finding the appropriate mux point to pinch is indeed the first step towards sanity. if you get funding, give me a buzz. otherwise, i will continue to work w/ (old) librx and approach the problem from the guile perspective. (e.g., below is lex.test w/ a simple shell-lexer

stamp-vti prerequisites

2002-09-05 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
greetings, can someone suggest a way to regen stamp-vti based on changes to a file besides configure.ac? i see this in am/vers-texi.am: ## Depend on %CONFIGURE-AC% so that version number updates cause a ## rebuild. $(srcdir)/stamp-%VTI%: %TEXI% $(top_srcdir)/%CONFIGURE-AC% this is fine

Re: installing config.h

2002-09-04 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Waldemar Rosenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there another way to solve this kind of problem? well, it's not clean, but you can process the headers on install. this could be a provisional approach (i.e., kludge) while you make the interface platform independent. see below for

Re: installing config.h

2002-09-04 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
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. (did i mention that this approach

Re: installing config.h

2002-09-04 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_create_prefix_config_h.html thanks for the tip. fwiw, to try this i had to substitute AC_ECHO_MKFILE(foo,bar) with echo 'foo' bar (the AC_ECHO_MKFILE from the website is empty.) thi

Re: guile.m4 documentation

2002-01-08 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 21:47:43 -0800 manual dependencies [...] ^^ probably find a lot of these in docs/Makefile.am (yuk yuk ;-). thi