Re: can't get away from automake on remote machine

2002-04-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Skip, Third, after executing configure, cvs up reports several unknown files: ? config.log ? Makefile ? config.status ? config.h ? libtool ? stamp-h1 ? python/Makefile ? src/Makefile ? src/.deps ? test/Makefile ? test/.deps None

A More Silent make; no mkdir, install, PASS, ...

2016-10-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I'm fond of `make -s'. It doesn't work too well with the automake-generated Makefile on http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/Makefile.am that I contribute to. In hand-written Makefiles in the past, I've checked MAKEFLAGS against *s* to decide whether to echo, etc. IIRC. I find

Finding #includes from a yacc .y.

2017-11-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, In a subdirectory, a foo.y gets turned into a foo.c. Both thus `#include "bar.h"' that sits alongside them. This all works fine. But use a build directory, i.e. run configure from somewhere other than `.', and foo.c fails to build because bar.h isn't found. (A similar problem happens with

Re: Finding #includes from a yacc .y.

2017-11-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi again, > It seems wrong for foo.y to have to `#include > "path/from/root/to/bar.h" since that means it has to alter if they > move around the hierarchy. Is there another way? I can be more precise having dug into this project a bit. Currently, it has sbr_libmh_a_CPPFLAGS =

Re: Finding #includes from a yacc .y.

2017-11-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
More noise... > It works in this one case, but I know that doesn't necessarily mean > it's right. :-) I've found AM_CPPFLAGS in `info automake | less' and I think that's answering it. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

Re: make check stderr?

2017-10-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Mike, > I like to run under strace to see why the test is failing. I can't > seem to find where stderr is being redirected. I thought it was in > tap-driver.sh so I patched it but still no strace output. Have you tried strace(1)'s -o option so its output doesn't appear on stderr and you

List Administrivia. (Was: make check stderr?)

2017-10-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
> On Oct 26, 2017 5:59 AM, "Ralph Corderoy" <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > I like to run under strace to see why the test is failing. I can't > > seem to find where stderr is being redirected. I thought it was in > > tap-driver

bug#20082: new warning from ar on rawhide systems

2016-10-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
> Has anyone looked at this patch so far? Reviews are appreciated. As > a downstream maintainer I keep getting questions when this is going to > be fixed. Also a problem with automake 1.15-2 on Arch Linux. Annoying if one's attempting to get "silent" builds that produce no output if all's well.