Yeehaa, Yahoo, Yipee and the like!
Well, there are some significant steps forward since yesterday :)
Gosh, it feels good when m4 finally agrees to do what you wanted to
:-)
I have implemented support for $.@, which is [$1].[$2]. etc. (`.' is
the separator, defaults to comma), and for $.*, whic
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> No. E.g. grep's configure.in says:
Paul> LIBOBJS=`echo $LIBOBJS|sed 's/\.o /\$U.o /g;s/\.o$/\$U.o/'`
Paul> and bison's aclocal.m4 says:
Paul> echo timestamp > `echo <<$>>am_file | sed -e 's%:.*%%' -e
Paul> 's%[^/]*$%%'`stamp-h$
> "Olly" == Olly Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Olly> If you ask someone in the UK to draw you a `pound sign' you'll
Olly> get one of these: `£' (that's the British currency symbol in
Olly> case something is eating high bits or you aren't reading this in
Olly> latin1). And in fact the HTM
> BTW this problem doesn't just occur on RedHat Linux boxes without a C
> compiler. I have a RedHat 6.1 box here which has gcc installed, but
> only as `gcc' and not as `cc'. I'm not totally sure how it got this
> way since the egcs rpm does have /usr/bin/cc in. I suspect I built
> gcc-2.95.2 f
%% Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> BTW this problem doesn't just occur on RedHat Linux boxes without a C
>> compiler. I have a RedHat 6.1 box here which has gcc installed, but
>> only as `gcc' and not as `cc'. I'm not totally sure how it got this
>> way since the egcs rpm do
~ :The GNU binutils use this macro to detect this case:
~ :
oh, by the way while playing with this macro I noticed a couple of
problems :
1. `test $bfd_cv_decl_needed_$1` didn't work because $bfd_cv_decl_needed
was considered as two shell variables $bfd_cv_decl_needed and $1, so I had
to tweak it
~ :CyberPsychotic> am using autoconf 1.4.1 package (shipped with
~ :CyberPsychotic> r.h. 6.0) and this macro isn't defined there, starting
~ :
~ :Can you tell me who packaged Autoconf 2.14.1 (I guess that's what you
~ :meant).
sure. it's Mandrake linux release 6.0, it's based on r.h. 6.0 package
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:01:45 +0500 (KGT)
From: CyberPsychotic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~ :The GNU binutils use this macro to detect this case:
~ :
oh, by the way while playing with this macro I noticed a couple of
problems :
1. `test $bfd_cv_decl_needed_$1` didn't work because
> sure. it's Mandrake linux release 6.0, it's based on r.h. 6.0 package
> though, so redhat might have it too.
>
As a datapoint, none of the rh dists that i've tried (6.0, 6.1, 6.2
beta) have a listing or version string for autoconf >= 2.14. All of
them are 2.13.
-eric
~ :> sure. it's Mandrake linux release 6.0, it's based on r.h. 6.0 package
~ :> though, so redhat might have it too.
~ :>
~ :As a datapoint, none of the rh dists that i've tried (6.0, 6.1, 6.2
~ :beta) have a listing or version string for autoconf >= 2.14. All of
~ :them are 2.13.
hmm.. So it'
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:59:56 +0500 (KGT)
From: CyberPsychotic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([NEED_DECL_]translit($sn_decl, [a-z], [A-Z]), 1,
[you have this cuz autoheader breaks things abit])
This won't work, because translit is an m4 construct, and $sn_
On 29 Feb 2000 out of nowhere Ian Lance Taylor spoke:
~ :
~ :I don't know what sort of playing around you were doing.
here's exact piece which I made based on the macro you suggested:
AC_DEFUN(SN_CHECK_DECL,[
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $1 must be declared])
AC_CACHE_VAL(sn_cv_decl_needed_$1,
[AC_
~ :
~ :This won't work, because translit is an m4 construct, and $sn_decl is
~ :a shell variable. This will convert $sn_decl to $SN_DECL, and let the
~ :shell cope with that.
oops.. yep. Noticed that :-\ Thanks.
~ :My macro won't work if you call it with a shell variable, so you can't
~ :call i
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 03:29:17 +0500 (KGT)
From: CyberPsychotic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~ :Sorry, I wasn't suggesting that you upgrade to a new version of
~ :autoconf. I was suggesting that you pick up the new macro, and put it
~ :in your acinclude.m4 file, just as you are doing with
These files are now checked out and placed in:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/
You can use this as a means of getting the latest versions if you'd rather
not bother with anonymous CVS.
Ben
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