failed test: multlib

2008-09-17 Thread Nick Rizzolo
Hi, On my new macbook running OS X 10.5.5, I downloaded automake 1.10.1, and the multlib test failed. Attached, please find the verbose output of the test and my config.log. Let me know if you need any more information. - Nick config.log Description: Binary data multlib.out Description:

Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

2008-09-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/4315 ] Hello Vincent, all, Thanks for the report. * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: The automake manual (several versions) says about the tar-v7 option: `tar-v7' selects the old V7 tar format.

Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

2008-09-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: The automake manual (several versions) says about the tar-v7 option: `tar-v7' selects the old V7 tar format. This is the historical default. This antiquated format is

Re: MAINTAINERCLEANFILES for autotools

2008-09-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:23:16AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: One problem is that it is surprisingly difficult to remove all files correctly in all the different setups that autotools support, in such a way that 'make' both finishes cleanly, and doesn't cause any

Re: failed test: multlib

2008-09-17 Thread Nick Rizzolo
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This particular failure is due to your compiler leaving behind lots of *.dSYM directories. Autoconf 2.62 and newer should have measures put in place to remove them I think. I'm not sure if that is sufficient to fix

Re: aclocal flags are a pain

2008-09-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:40:31AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Not sure what you're after here. The tools themselves will bail out anyway if they are too old (discounting automake 1.4 here). What's the gain of having autoreconf bail out? Right. May have