Re: autoconf-2.70 released [stable]

2020-12-08 Thread John Calcote
Woohoo!! About time! :) On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:14 PM Zack Weinberg wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > We are pleased to announce stable release 2.70 of GNU Autoconf. > > This release includes eight years of development work since the > previous release, 2.69.

Re: autoreconf thinks I'm not using libtool

2010-03-14 Thread John Calcote
Hi Peter, On 3/14/2010 10:38 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: Hello, I experience that autoreconf, for some reason, thinks I'm not using libtool. I slimmed down my configure.ac to the following: AC_INIT([1.0], [hello]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) AC_LANG([C++]) AC_PROG_CXX AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

install-sh script not installed when using Autoconf alone

2009-04-17 Thread John Calcote
When Autoconf is used without Automake, 'autoreconf --install' doesn't install a copy of the install-sh script when it detects the use of the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro in configure.ac. There are two problems here: First, while the Autoconf manual indicates that Autoconf ships with a version of

Change FILE to TAG in help text displayed by config.status

2009-04-17 Thread John Calcote
When you enter './config.status --help' at the command line, you get: $ ./config.status --help `config.status' instantiates files from templates according to the current configuration. Usage: ./config.status [OPTION]... [FILE]... ... The 'Usage' line above should read:

Re: install-sh script not installed when using Autoconf alone

2009-04-17 Thread John Calcote
On 4/17/2009 10:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to John Calcote on 4/17/2009 3:39 PM: When Autoconf is used without Automake, 'autoreconf --install' doesn't install a copy of the install-sh script when it detects the use