Re: AC_F77_WRAPPERS prob

2001-01-19 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Using the latest CVS sources (I just did cvs update), I can replicate the problem of the configure giving: checking for g77... g77 checking whether the Fortran 77 compiler works... no configure: error: Fortran 77 compiler cannot create executables for the configure.in file: AC_INIT(configure.in

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Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 19, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's "#pragma once" and an ifndef wrapper in it ASAIR, so that should > work fine. Using '' first in the list of ac_declaration's didn't trigger > though, probably for some other reason. It should work for C and older versions of g+

Re: CVS checkouts of *.in and *.am files

2001-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 19, 2001, "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harlan Stenn wrote: >> - on checkin, check the files in with the timestamp on the "local" file >> >> - on checkout/update, get the list of files that will be "messed with" >> and simply do the work in oldest -> newest order >> - Wi

Re: Your 2000-01-10 change CVS src/Makefile.am

2001-01-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:19:25PM -0600, Raja R Harinath wrote: > "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > drwxrwxrwt 6 root wheel 512 Jan 19 15:29 /tmp > ^ > > There's no 'setgid' bit on the /tmp directory. Does BSD still exhibit > 'setgid' behaviour? Yes. On the BSD's I'v

Re: Your 2000-01-10 change CVS src/Makefile.am

2001-01-19 Thread Raja R Harinath
"Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Autoconf folks, the comment on 'mv' in the Portable Shell section of the new > manual might not be appropriate: > > `mv' > The only portable options are `-f' and `-i'. > > Moving individual files between file systems is portable (it was

Re: Your 2000-01-10 change CVS src/Makefile.am

2001-01-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Autoconf folks, the comment on 'mv' in the Portable Shell section of the new manual might not be appropriate: `mv' The only portable options are `-f' and `-i'. Moving individual files between file systems is portable (it was in V6), but it is not always atomic: when doing `mv ne

Not-really-cross-compilation issues

2001-01-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I've created a simple shared library that I placed at a non-standard location for illustration purposes. Imagine I want to configure a package to link against that library: $ cat configure.in AC_INIT(.) AC_PROG_CC AC_OUTPUT # With Autoconf 2.13: $ LIBS='-L/tmp/obscure -ltest' ./configure cre

Re: CVS checkouts of *.in and *.am files

2001-01-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Harlan Stenn wrote: > Folks have recently discussed things like "egcs_update" and other > related scripts that attempt to check out/update certain "master" files > before doing a checkout of "derived" files. > Before saying something stupid on the CVS list, I thought I'd try my > idea out here!

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:56:36PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: : On Jan 19, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:30:48PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: : > : I'd rather avoid this, if I could help it. Didn't `#include ' : > : work as an ac_declaration

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 19, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:30:48PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > : I'd rather avoid this, if I could help it. Didn't `#include ' > : work as an ac_declaration of exit? > Sure. And couldn't it be #included twice? Didn't it fix the

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:30:48PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: : On Jan 19, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > * aclang.m4 (_AC_GROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Take care of : > the _CRTIMP business with libc declarations with MS Visual C++. : : This is horrible :-( : : I

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 19, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * aclang.m4 (_AC_GROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Take care of > the _CRTIMP business with libc declarations with MS Visual C++. This is horrible :-( I'd rather avoid this, if I could help it. Didn't `#include ' work as an ac_

Re: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:41:46PM +0100, Tim Van Holder wrote: : As I'm an avid Emacs user (vi users: eat my shorts ;-P), I'd have used We just started a programming language war in the autopackage thread, and then you post "emacs is bigger than vi"? Wait till it's your turn... Lars J -- In

RE: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

2001-01-19 Thread Tim Van Holder
> In lisp/scheme, you name predicates e.g. "is-integer?" or just "integer?". > The C convention is for Guile to use names like SCM_INTEGER_P(value) > where _P means it is a predicate. I don't think _P is something we > should use, and using "?" means changing the m4 word syntax, so it's > probabl

Re: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:19:24PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : > "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Lars> No, you got the idea, except *_IF() isn't good since it's a : Lars> predicate that "evaluates" to true or false, not a macro that : Lars> has IF and IF-NOT arguments to r

[patch] override sloppy ltconfig exeext test

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
I suggested this one before, but there was never any comments, so here's a more "official" submittal... I know it's kind of "the wrong fix", but a right fix won't help with the latest released libtool, and a new libtool release can be some time off... 2000-01-19 Lars J. Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 07:35:04PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Thanks Lars, it's great! Here's a patch: 2000-01-19 Lars J. Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * aclang.m4 (_AC_GROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Take care of the _CRTIMP business with libc declarations with MS Visual C++. I

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread akim
Thanks Lars, it's great!

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
Upon closer inspection I found out that I was compiling with no special options, while the person having problems was using a linker option "/MDd". /MD is used to link against the msvcrt library, and /MDd to link against the debug version of that library. *rt is probably a DLL (run-time) and the

Re: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

2001-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> No, you got the idea, except *_IF() isn't good since it's a Lars> predicate that "evaluates" to true or false, not a macro that Lars> has IF and IF-NOT arguments to run depending on a test... I'm not sure what sense you'd give to true

Re: More exit() troubles

2001-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> If you doubled the number of delarations, prefixing half of them Lars> with __declspec(dllimport), the linkage setting might become Lars> correct, but I really don't see why there's a need for the Lars> declaration at all, or why people

Re: AC_F77_WRAPPERS prob

2001-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:11:13PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: | > Patrick, could you try again? There were problem with AC_LANG which | > might be responsible. Compared to the two days old Autoconf, the only | > significant difference I see is: | | Yes, you got it! | | All 175 tests were s

Re: AC_F77_WRAPPERS prob

2001-01-19 Thread Patrick Welche
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:11:13PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > Patrick, could you try again? There were problem with AC_LANG which > might be responsible. Compared to the two days old Autoconf, the only > significant difference I see is: Yes, you got it! All 175 tests were successful (36 ski

Re: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:15:02PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : Lars> I think I would prefer it if we used verbose names instead of : Lars> _X, _E, etc. then. Maybe also drop "TEST" and mark the macro : Lars> name as a predicate in some other way. I'd also consider : Lars> including FILE / DIR

using pswrap

2001-01-19 Thread trevor
hi everyone, i've started playing around with the DPS library that comes with XFree86 (as well as other X servers). up to now i've been creating Makefiles by hand but i have used the autotools, i just am not sure how to apply them to this type of project. your help would be most appreciated.

Re: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

2001-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> These will of course be part of the "autoshell" API that comes Lars> with Autoconf, and not be just for internal use? Right. M4sh, pronounced Mash. Lars> I think I would prefer it if we used verbose names instead of Lars> _X, _E, e

Re: AC_F77_WRAPPERS prob

2001-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Patrick, could you try again? There were problem with AC_LANG which might be responsible. Compared to the two days old Autoconf, the only significant difference I see is: /tmp % diff configure.old configure.new -u -I '^#' -I 'as_me:' nostromo 15:07 --- configure.old Fri Jan 19 15:05:36

Re: More exit() troubles

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:45:31PM +0100, Lars J. Aas wrote: : On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:13:02PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : : Lars, does it work as expected? It works like a charm with g++: : : It didn't do any difference for me, but it wasn't me who had the problem. : I'm waiting for feedba

Re: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:50:41PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : I changed my mind :) I now favor this choice, but it has to be : implemented in M4sh, not Autoconf. Something like what was done for : AS_DIRNAME. : : AS_TEST_X(FILE) ? I'd say so. Lars? These will of course be part of the "aut

Re: compiler wrappers

2001-01-19 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:45:57PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: : IMO, you are just facing a cross-compilation and canonicalization : related issue (VC etc. under Cygwin - this is a special form of : cross compilation :). : : Therefore I would apply the gnu-canonicalization naming scheme (e.g. :

Re: AC_F77_WRAPPERS prob

2001-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
| Curiouser and curiouser.. I got yesterday's with | cvs update -D "2001-01-17 21:24" -P -d Thanks for tracing the difference. I'll dig into this. Could I ask you to look at config.log from: | >From that directory: | | quartz% more /tmp/yesterday | | Test