Re: regex.m4: how do I know that the included regex is used?

2011-07-29 Thread Sam Steingold
* Bruno Haible oe...@pyvfc.bet [2011-07-29 01:39:59 +0200]: At any rate, if gnulib regex is included in libgnu.a, then regex.h should be copied (or linked) to $(builddir) or $(builddir)/gllib. The current situation is clearly wrong: regex is the only gnulib package which requires prepending

top_srcdir in Makefile.am Makefile.in

2011-07-29 Thread Sam Steingold
Hi, clisp directory structure is: clisp - top level; hand-written configure script (ask Bruno) clisp/src - most sources, configure.in, configure, aclocal.m4 clisp/src/gllib, clisp/src/glm4 - imported from gnulib clisp/src/build-aux - imported from many places, mostly gnulib $ grep top_srcdir

Re: top_srcdir in Makefile.am Makefile.in

2011-07-29 Thread Sam Steingold
A related issue is this section of gllib/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(am__configure_deps) @for dep in $?; do \ case '$(am__configure_deps)' in \ *$$dep*) \ ( cd $(top_builddir) $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) am--refresh ) \

Re: regex.m4: how do I know that the included regex is used?

2011-07-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: Sam Steingold wrote: If I prepend -I$(srcdir)/gllib to CPPFLAFS, then #include regex.h will read the gnulib header, not the system header. Yes. How can you be sure that this will not lead to any problems given that the libgnu.a does _not_ include regex.o? Because

Re: top_srcdir in Makefile.am Makefile.in

2011-07-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Sam Steingold wrote: clisp directory structure is: clisp - top level; hand-written configure script (ask Bruno) clisp/src - most sources, configure.in, configure, aclocal.m4 clisp/src/gllib, clisp/src/glm4 - imported from gnulib clisp/src/build-aux - imported from many places, mostly gnulib

Re: top_srcdir in Makefile.am Makefile.in

2011-07-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Sam Steingold wrote: $(am__cd) $(top_srcdir) \ $(AUTOMAKE) --gnits gllib/Makefile the penultimate line must be $(am__cd) $(top_srcdir)/src \ how do I effect that? You can't. Instead, make sure that $(top_srcdir) evaluates to .../clisp/src. Bruno -- In memoriam