Re: Configure tool/cvs repository trouble

2002-05-29 Thread Thomas Dickey

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:25:36AM +0200, Patrick Guio wrote:

> If I just "touch configure" then everything is running ok again. I am not
> sure which of the package is generating this trouble nut is there any
> policy/strategy of using configuration tool together with a cvs
> repository?

that's a rhetorical question (ask anywhere else and the answer of course is no)

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Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-23 Thread Thomas Dickey

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:23:34PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
 
> In my opinion it is prohibitive and stupid not to have a libtool release
> that can properly interact with autoconf.

It's equally stupid to release a version of autoconf which cannot properly
interact with released versions of libtool.  (That's what engineering is
all about - the converse is just playing games).

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Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Thomas Dickey

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:09:09PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> In my experience almost all problems that occur while moving to autoconf
> 2.5x are outright bugs in the configure.in/aclocal.m4 scripts.

We've already discussed this before, and I decided not to rely upon your opinion

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Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Thomas Dickey

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:15:07PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> |> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:09:09PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> |> > In my experience almost all problems that occur while moving to autoconf
> |> > 2.5x are outright bugs in the configure.in/aclocal.m4 scripts.
> |> 
> |> We've already discussed this before, and I decided not to rely upon your opinion
> 
> You are free do so, of course, but then don't complain that the rest of
> the world is moving forward.

or going in circles, or - in this case, a random walk.

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Re: Autoconf 2.54a is released

2002-10-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:25:00PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> The Autoconf team is happy to annonce the first beta of forthcoming
> Autoconf 2.55.  Download, compile, install, torture, and enjoy!
...
> ** Bug Fixes
> 
> - Portability of the Autoconf package to Solaris.

if it couldn't work properly on Solaris, you may as well delete it.

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