Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2003-01-11 Thread Lapo Luchini
Robert Collins wrote: Now, for the problem reported the root problem here is *NOT* autotools brokenness. It's CVS being broken (unless I'm seriously mistaken). I did forget to thanks you all.. Finally I know much more about how to use the autotools and what is actually done by each tool.

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-04 Thread Soren A
BTW, as serendipity (or synchronicity) would have it, those who read DDJ might have noticed the article about Cmake (http://www.cmake.org/) that appeared in the latest issue. Cmake looks like it might be worth looking into (and yes it is Open Source software). Soren A -- Yes, it's really

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-04 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:40 PM 12/4/2002, Soren A wrote: BTW, as serendipity (or synchronicity) would have it, those who read DDJ might have noticed the article about Cmake (http://www.cmake.org/) that appeared in the latest issue. Cmake looks like it might be worth looking into (and yes it is Open Source

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 11:36, Soren A wrote: At the very LEAST, something that does what AM_MAINTAINER_MODE causes, should have been the *default* for all autotool'd packages, and only by significant contortions should it have been made possible to cause all that default behavior to get

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-02 Thread Soren A
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in 1038820917.2953.13.camel@lifelesswks:">news:1038820917.2953.13.camel@lifelesswks: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 11:36, Soren A wrote: At the very LEAST, something that does what AM_MAINTAINER_MODE causes, should have been the *default* for all autotool'd

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-01 Thread Lapo Luchini
Doing aclocal automake autoconf as the autobook suggests doesn't change things... =( (or: it does seldom work, but usually doesn't.. that's why I'm thinking about granularity in NT's timekeeping) automake 1.7.x and later require autoconf-2.54 or newer. Ordinarily, the wrapper scripts in

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Lapo Luchini wrote: That's not the point: I have no problem on my cybwin developement machine: the problem is that ./configure-generated Makefile tries to call the autotools on each different machine, even in no-one changed configure.in or Makefile.am The client machine shouldn't need

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-01 Thread Soren A
Lapo got me started. Blame him ;-)... Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: The client machine shouldn't need autotools or the know-how to use them, right? Not necessarily. If configure.in doesn't have AM_MAINTAINER_MODE, then the default

cygwin's autoconf?

2002-11-30 Thread Lapo Luchini
Hi! Finally I decided to study seriously the autotools (thanks for the references, Nicholas!).. but I have a small problem: (cyberone is my CygWin/WinXP desktop machine, cyberx is my FreeBSD home-server machine) cyberone$ autoreconf cyberone$ rsync -vrLe ssh --delete * lapo@cyberx:project/

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-11-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Finally I decided to study seriously the autotools (thanks for the references, Nicholas!).. but I have a small problem: (cyberone is my CygWin/WinXP desktop machine, cyberx is my FreeBSD home-server machine) cyberone$ autoreconf cyberone$ rsync

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-11-30 Thread Lapo Luchini
I believe that autoreconf isn't entirely reliable. This is the reason that projects (e.g. libgetopt++) often have a bootstrap.sh which runs the relevant autotools. Doing aclocal automake autoconf as the autobook suggests doesn't change things... =( (or: it does seldom work, but usually

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Lapo Luchini wrote: I believe that autoreconf isn't entirely reliable. This is the reason that projects (e.g. libgetopt++) often have a bootstrap.sh which runs the relevant autotools. Doing aclocal automake autoconf as the autobook suggests doesn't change things... =( (or: it does