* Ralf Wildenhues
| Hello Justin, Tollef,
|
| * Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:40:12PM CEST:
| On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
| $sbindir without flagging that at all. If it, in
On 6/19/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Ralf Wildenhues
| Hello Justin, Tollef,
|
| * Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:40:12PM CEST:
| On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
|
Hello Justin, Tollef, everyone,
* Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:12:11PM CEST:
The point of our autoconf macro is to allow 'shortcuts', such that the
argument
--with-layout=Foo
rewrites prefix/libexec/etc to a specific set of values (dictated by
our file
Hello Justin, Tollef,
* Justin Erenkrantz wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:40:12PM CEST:
On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
$sbindir without flagging that at all. If it, in addition to changing
$sbindir, it'd
On 6/15/06, Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apart from the «ewww» factor, why can't it do its work in a subshell
and echo back the parameters to be set and those get eval-ed by
configure?
Yes, something like that might work, given that you know
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I too suspect that the apr macros should be fixed to not rely on $@,
but this was a sudden and unannounced change in the Debian packages
without a significant bump in the version number. (Personally, I'd
treat this as an API bump and increase version
Hello,
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:41:56PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
It may be possible to reorder macro invocations so the expansion of
APR_PARSE_ARGUMENTS comes before any AC_CANONICAL_*?
... but this is only a temporary workaround, of course, because:
[...] several macros in Autoconf
Hi Stepan,
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 06:12:51PM CEST:
[...] several macros in Autoconf overwrite the positional
parameters, not just AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM. For example,
AC_CHECK_PROG does, so do some others. [...]
I agree that we should document this limitation. I
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apart from the «ewww» factor, why can't it do its work in a subshell
and echo back the parameters to be set and those get eval-ed by
configure?
Yes, something like that might work, given that you know the values
can't contain ' (though you should
I've seen a flurry of Debian BTS emails around this bug, but none
of them have made it clear to me what I should do about it.
In the long term, I suspect that the Autoconf macros in the
apr-util package should be fixed, and that autoconf-doc should
document that $@ may be changed by some macros.
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here's the patch I installed.
Thanks for installing that. I'll reassign the Debian bug to the
documentation package.
[...]
However, let me point out a spelling error:
+Autocoonf macros often use the @command{set} command to update
^
--
Ben
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