Shell crash on SunOS 4.1.3

2000-12-05 Thread Torbjorn Granlund
Running configure from the current GMP working sources, SunOS 4.1.3 /bin/sh catches a segfault. I tracked down the problem to some lines in the newly generated config.status: # If the user did not use the arguments to specify the items to instantiate, # then the envvar interface is used. Se

Re: autoconfiscating getopt_long()...

2000-12-05 Thread Matthew Whitworth
What I have done so far (and it seems to work), is to copy getopt.c and getopt.h to getopt_long.c and getopt_long.h, and then to use the following snippets: configure.in: AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(getopt_long) Makefile.am: useless_SOURCES=useless.c getopt_long.h tailor.h dnl This condionally links getopt

Re: autoconfiscating getopt_long()...

2000-12-05 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Matthew Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:45:19 -0800 (PST) > I have examined several packages that use getopt_long(), including > several GNU packages, and none of them autoconfiscate this function > the same way. Actually, few of them even autoconfiscate it at al

Re: ..._AS_... name problem with CVS autoconf

2000-12-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
Thanks! H

autoconfiscating getopt_long()...

2000-12-05 Thread Matthew Whitworth
The GNU coding standards document says "[u]se getopt_long to decode arguments, unless the argument syntax makes this unreasonable." Generally I'm all for this and wish more programs did. However, most UNIX-like systems don't support getopt_long() out-of-the-box, which means one should include a

Re: FYI: `Document' qnx (Was: Various systems)

2000-12-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Akim! > Pavel> Please undo this patch. We should not document operating > Pavel> systems in the Autoconf manual. > > Why not? I mean, I understand people who would say it does not belong > to the Autoconf Reference Manual, but otoh the Autoconf documentation > aims at providing the user o

Re: patch for autoconf when CFLAGS includes -MD

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Thanks, we will apply it.

patch for autoconf when CFLAGS includes -MD

2000-12-05 Thread Bob Wilson
I ran into a problem with autoconf 2.13 when CFLAGS is set to include -MD. The acspecific code for detecting EXEEXT gets confused and thinks that the ".d" file is the executable. This patch causes it to exclude ".d" in the same way as other suffixes that it knows about. Please include this chan

Re: AC_PROG_F77 thinks my compiler is g77 (it's not!)

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
| Paul Martinolich wrote: | > The _AC_COMPILER_GNU macro uses the cpp statements: | > [...] | > to determine if the compile is a GNU compiler. In strict Fortran, | > these statements are illegal! Unfortunately, I don't believe there | > is a way (in strict Fortran) to determine those character

Re: FYI: AS_EXIT (Was: Backquotes in quotes in backquotes)

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> I'm afraid it's quite over the top. I would leave the case for Pavel> 0. Actually, I was planning to introduce a special case for $? Pavel> that would be just "exit". It seems overkill to me. >> # So we set $? by executing "exit

Re: expr ... and `expr ...` return different results on QNX 4.2.5

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> The second re-run ought to be conditional on this problem to Lars> optimize the configure script, so if someone knows how to write Lars> a condition test that won't affect $?, raise your voice Lars> (keyboard)... Let's try to avoid thi

Re: ..._AS_... name problem with CVS autoconf

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
| The following configure.in doesn't work with the latest CVS autoconf: | | --- | dnl -*- fundamental -*- | AC_INIT(properties/SERunner.properties.in) | | # AS Queue name | WS_AS_QUEUE=ibmas_$USER | AC_SUBST(WS_AS_QUEUE, $WS_AS_QUEUE) | | AC_OUTPUT | -- | | (it's a simplified copy of a larger

Re: expr ... and `expr ...` return different results on QNX 4.2.5

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hello! | > Yes. I wouldn't bother doing that. Just tell them to get a working | > shell. You have to draw the line somewhere. | | That's correct. We cannot support command.com anyway :-) | | > If you want to quote chapter and verse, you can tell them that | > POSIX.2-1992 section 3.9.1 pag

Re: Fwd: Guess what...

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akim> We can have 2.50 in September, or at worst October if autothings Akim> go wrong. Earnie> Hey Akim, did you mean 2001 for this? ;^) I meant 1900 :)

Re: Moving the autoconf archive to Red Hat

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Christopher" == Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christopher> I'm happy to do this (I'm one of the site administrators Christopher> for sources.redhat.com), but wouldn't it make more sense Christopher> to move things to subversions.gnu.org? That's where the Christopher> curr

Re: FYI: `Document' qnx (Was: Various systems)

2000-12-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> Hello, Akim! >> * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): New section. Some about QNX 4. Pavel> Please undo this patch. We should not document operating Pavel> systems in the Autoconf manual. Why not? I mean, I understand people who wo