Re: Could the --add-missing option be supported in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE?

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Johnston
t add both, BTW; AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is the obsolescent name for LT_INIT AFAIK. Ok, the lines above were part of a bug report for the Eclipse CDT autotools plug-in and I just copied it over. The make can fail when it tries to do an automake and ltmain.sh is missing. Note that even "automak

Could the --add-missing option be supported in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE? (was: Re: How to automatically get missing files when changing configure.ac?)

2012-08-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
L is the obsolescent name for LT_INIT AFAIK. > The make can fail when it tries to do an automake and ltmain.sh > is missing. > Note that even "automake --add-missing" wouldn't help you here, because the ltmain.sh is provided by Libtool, not Automake, and installed by &

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Alfred, * Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:33:10PM CET: > You didn't answer why you need this switch, only that you want it. Various threads on this list during the last months document this, I would say. It otherwise isn't even hard to guess. ;-) Cheers, Ralf

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You didn't answer why you need this switch, only that you want it.

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
[Note that this has nothing to do with the bootstrap file] On Sunday 2009-11-15 17:44, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Index: automake/m4/init.m4 > === > --- automake.orig/m4/init.m4 > +++ automake/m4/init.m4 > @@ -107,6 +107,7

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Index: automake/m4/init.m4 === --- automake.orig/m4/init.m4 +++ automake/m4/init.m4 @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ dnl is hooked onto _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT e AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE(dnl [m4_provide_if([_AM_COMPILER_EXEEXT],

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Peter Johansson wrote: From where did you get that rule? It doesn't go very well with the fact that automake by default adds Makefile.am, configure.ac and other .m4 files to the tarball. Those files will never be useful for a pure ./configure; make; make install, but as s

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2009-11-14 14:06, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >Hi Jan, > >* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: >> in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it >> would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. > >Sounds reasonable t

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 09:35 -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: > Gaetan Nadon wrote: > > > > If you want to modify files in automake, then you are doing development, > > rather than just installing the software. Given that automake requires > > itself, there may be special things to do. In any case, no

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Peter Johansson
Gaetan Nadon wrote: If you want to modify files in automake, then you are doing development, rather than just installing the software. Given that automake requires itself, there may be special things to do. In any case, nothing should be added to the tarball that isn't required for installation.

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 14:06 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Jan, > > * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: > > in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it > > would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. > > Sounds r

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: > in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it > would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. Sounds reasonable to me, esp. since it doesn't even use git in any way (yet). >

Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. In other words, when used in an rpm build script: Source: automake-1.11.tar.bz2 Patch1: foobar.diff modifying m4/init.m4 Not running bootstrap after a

Re: Passing --add-missing when rebuilding Makefile.in

2007-10-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
c/missing --run aclocal-1.10 > cd . && /bin/sh /tmp/ac/missing --run automake-1.10 --foreign > Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found > Makefile.am: `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp' > make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 > > Would it b

Passing --add-missing when rebuilding Makefile.in

2007-10-29 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
--foreign Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found Makefile.am: `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp' make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 Would it be a problem if --add-missing was always passed to automake at this point? Cheers, -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA

Re: --add-missing

2007-07-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Polino wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:31:43PM CEST: > > I'm sort of confused on my options, is this correct? > > 1. AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) in finch/libgnt/configure.ac && >AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) in configure.ac > > OR > > 2. AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) in finch/libgnt/configure.ac && >

Re: --add-missing

2007-07-24 Thread Eric Polino
On 7/24/07, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Eric, * Eric Polino wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:00:44AM CEST: > > Here lies the problem. If I run toplevel/ag.sh it creates > finch/libgnt/Makefile.in, as it always has and should. Within there > it generates a variable called D

Re: --add-missing

2007-07-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Eric, * Eric Polino wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:00:44AM CEST: > > Here lies the problem. If I run toplevel/ag.sh it creates > finch/libgnt/Makefile.in, as it always has and should. Within there > it generates a variable called DIST_COMMON which doesn't reference the > automake scripts

--add-missing

2007-07-23 Thread Eric Polino
er to allow libgnt to be build standalone. We are essentially trying to make the libgnt folder extractable to be its own package so that distros can install it by itself without installing Pidgin Some more info on the directories: toplevel/autogen.sh (calls 'automake --add-missing --copy'

Re: --add-missing broken

2001-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Related question: Which directory is am_dir/--am-dir supposed to Ralf> point to, now? <..>/automake/ or <..>/automake/am? Akim> Good question. No idea what Tom will prefer.

Re: --add-missing broken

2001-05-04 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Hi, At present time, automake --add-missing is broken. Ralf> Apparent cause is this patch below. Doh! Thanks! Weird that the test suite did not catch this. Ralf> Related question: Which

--add-missing broken

2001-05-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Hi, At present time, automake --add-missing is broken. Apparent cause is this patch below. Index: automake.in === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake.in,v retrieving revision 1.1046 retrieving revision 1.1047 diff -r1.1046 -r1.1047

Re: --Werror and --add-missing don't work toghether

2001-04-07 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> CVS Automake uses am_line_error() to inform the user that it's Pavel> installing files. As a result, --Werror causes Automake to exit Pavel> after it installs the first file: I submitted a PR about this in your name. Thanks. Tom

--Werror and --add-missing don't work toghether

2001-03-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! CVS Automake uses am_line_error() to inform the user that it's installing files. As a result, --Werror causes Automake to exit after it installs the first file: $ automake --Werror --add-missing; echo $? automake: Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' 2 $ automake --Werror --a

Re: [Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-12-26 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: > I wouldn't be averse to adding a `pdf' target so that `make pdf' works > as expected. Someone else would have to write it though since I don't > know how. It should be the exact target used for DVI except for the addition of a '--pdf' switch to the texi2dvi command line. I'

Re: [Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-12-23 Thread Tom Tromey
Derek> I slogged my way through enough FAQs, documentation, and email Derek> archives to lead me to believe that having the same *.texi file Derek> find two different texinfo.tex files (say ./texinfo.tex & Derek> ./pdftexinfo.tex) depending on the output isn't a common Derek> request. I sent out

Re: [Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-12-18 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Derek" == Derek R Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Me too. But the point is that GNU packages are supposed to ship > >> with texinfo.tex. > > Derek> Is there a web page somewhere with this standard on it? I > Derek> browsed briefly but I haven't been able to l

Re: [Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-12-17 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Derek" == Derek R Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Me too. But the point is that GNU packages are supposed to ship >> with texinfo.tex. Derek> Is there a web page somewhere with this standard on it? I Derek> browsed briefly but I haven't been able to locate one. It is in the GNU Co

Re: [Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Derek" == Derek R Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Derek> Yep. Looks like that could be used by configure to set, say, > Derek> TEX_TEXINPUTS & PDFTEX_TEXINPUTS and prepend include dirs > Derek> differently for different targets, but I suspect that if your > Derek

Re: [Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Derek" == Derek R Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Derek> Yep. Looks like that could be used by configure to set, say, Derek> TEX_TEXINPUTS & PDFTEX_TEXINPUTS and prepend include dirs Derek> differently for different targets, but I suspect that if your Derek> TeX distribution includes kp

[Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-11-14 Thread Derek R. Price
tes: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2000, "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the > > > /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake > > > --add-missing u

Re: --add-missing

2000-11-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Nov 13, 2000, "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the > > /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake > > --add-missing uses the "pro

Re: --add-missing

2000-11-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Nov 13, 2000, "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the > /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake > --add-missing uses the "proper" texinfo.tex file (i.e. the one insta

--add-missing

2000-11-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake --add-missing uses the "proper" texinfo.tex file (i.e. the one installed with the texinfo package and assumedly the most recent one)? Derek -- D

Re: automake --add-missing --copy

2000-04-06 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:49:35PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: : >>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Lars> I've always been annoyed that automake --add-missing --copy : Lars> doesn't pass the "--copy"-option along to li

Re: automake --add-missing --copy

2000-04-05 Thread Tom Tromey
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I've always been annoyed that automake --add-missing --copy Lars> doesn't pass the "--copy"-option along to libtoolize, so I end Lars> up with symlinked config.guess, config.

automake --add-missing --copy

2000-04-04 Thread Lars J. Aas
Using: automake (GNU automake) 1.4a I've always been annoyed that automake --add-missing --copy doesn't pass the "--copy"-option along to libtoolize, so I end up with symlinked config.guess, config.sub, ltconfig and ltmain.sh. This might be fixed already, it's an "