Re: [patch] override sloppy ltconfig exeext test

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
OK with me, and in the cvs commit queue.

Re: [patch] override sloppy ltconfig exeext test

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
2000-01-19 Lars J. Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_*): export ac_cv_exeext + Please, don't do that.

Virus Alert?...

2001-01-22 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
Hey all, I just receive (yesterday evening in fact) a mail from the autoconf mailing list containing just an "EBGILGEB.EXE" attachment... I suspect it to be a Virus, although I didn't try it :-) I was quite concerned about the fact that the mailing list accepts attachments,

Antigen found =*.exe file

2001-01-22 Thread ANTIGEN_AGAMEMNON
Antigen for Exchange found EBGILGEB.EXE matching =*.exe file filter. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Virus Alert?...", was sent from Bernard Dautrevaux and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at SLAC. Potentially malicious file types are automatically removed from email.

Re: AC_F77_WRAPPERS prob

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
The problem is a conflict between the REQUIRE and the LANG mechanisms. It is a grave bug (oops, sorry, I meant serious :), and must be fixed. Basically if you have two macros, AC_F77_1 and AC_F77_2, requiring to be run with a Fortran context, then with AC_DEFUN([AC_F77_1],

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars There's "#pragma once" and an ifndef wrapper in it ASAIR, so Lars that should work fine. Using '' first in the list of Lars ac_declaration's didn't trigger though, probably for some other Lars reason. Alexandre It should work for C

Re: Not-really-cross-compilation issues

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Peter" == Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Autoconf now assumes that if you can't run a program then you Peter must be cross-compiling, so you should use --host. No, it says `It doesn't work', and `if you were doing cross compilation, then say it loud and clear'. What kind

Re: Shell crash on SunOS 4.1.3

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Kevin" == Kevin Ryde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin Alas attempts at making such an input have met with miserable Kevin failure. Kevin Whatever the bug is, it seems highly dependent on the Kevin environment. I got to config.status.cutdown below which Kevin provokes the segv under Kevin

Re: Shell crash on SunOS 4.1.3

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"akim" == akim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: akim Thanks. We must be hitting some internal size limitation I akim guess. I will apply the patch you suggest. I'm applying the patch below. Harlan, please, try this Autoconf, or maybe even the test suite (but I'm quite pessimistic wrt the

Re: VPATH elimination by configure

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Tom" == Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akim It seems to me that Autoconf's job is not to remove unportable Akim code written by the user, so it seems wrong to have it remove Akim VPATH definitions from Makefiles. Historically I'm sure

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:08:59AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Lars There's "#pragma once" and an ifndef wrapper in it ASAIR, so : Lars that should work fine. Using '' first in the list of : Lars ac_declaration's didn't trigger

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Lars J. Aas wrote: : 2001-01-22 Lars J. Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): First try no declaration, : then '#include stdlib.h', before trying the explicit declarations. + Suggested by Alexandre

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Lars" == Lars J Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): First try no Lars declaration, then '#include stdlib.h', before trying the Lars explicit declarations. If Alexandre thinks it is OK that stdlib.h be *always* included in *all the tests*, then

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 22, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Lars" == Lars J Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): First try no Lars declaration, then '#include stdlib.h', before trying the Lars explicit declarations. If Alexandre thinks it is OK that

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre My reasoning is that, if it can be #included twice without Alexandre error, it can't hurt. I can't think of any problem with Alexandre it, can you? Systems usually have more imagination than you and I have :) Alexandre If

Re: Not-really-cross-compilation issues

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Akim Demaille writes: Peter Autoconf now assumes that if you can't run a program then you Peter must be cross-compiling, so you should use --host. No, it says `It doesn't work', and `if you were doing cross compilation, then say it loud and clear'. What kind of message would you suggest?

Re: Not-really-cross-compilation issues

2001-01-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 22, 2001, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No message, just continue. Or maybe some message, but continue anyway. At the expense of having all execution tests fail for the wrong reason? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: Not-really-cross-compilation issues

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Peter" == Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Akim Demaille writes: Autoconf now assumes that if you can't Peter run a program then you must be cross-compiling, so you should Peter use --host. No, it says `It doesn't work', and `if you were doing cross compilation, then say it

Re: Not-really-cross-compilation issues

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alexandre Oliva writes: On Jan 22, 2001, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No message, just continue. Or maybe some message, but continue anyway. At the expense of having all execution tests fail for the wrong reason? The execution tests are going to fail anyway, whether you

Re: Not-really-cross-compilation issues

2001-01-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 22, 2001, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva writes: On Jan 22, 2001, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No message, just continue. Or maybe some message, but continue anyway. At the expense of having all execution tests fail for the wrong reason?

Re: Snapshot 2.49c

2001-01-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:15:49AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : Anyone seeing a show stopper? Let's go for a snapshot today. We're soon a week behind schedule. Hurry up guys! ;-) How about this wednesday, making it an odd week? Lars J -- Innovation is one percent inspiration and

Re: Snapshot 2.49c

2001-01-22 Thread Akim Demaille
"Lars" == Lars J Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:15:49AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : Lars Anyone seeing a show stopper? Let's go for a snapshot today. Lars We're soon a week behind schedule. Hurry up guys! ;-) How Lars about this wednesday, making it an odd

Re: Snapshot 2.49c

2001-01-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:08:31PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : "Lars" == Lars J Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Lars On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:15:49AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: : : Lars Anyone seeing a show stopper? Let's go for a snapshot today. : : Lars We're soon a week behind

Re: VPATH elimination by configure

2001-01-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: So, I think I'm slowly starting to understand this VPATH stuff: configure wants to remove it only when useless, right? I.e., when VPATH is just set to srcdir? So then, I'm in favor of Derek's patch which seems finer that the current one, and updating the Autoconf

Re: VPATH elimination by configure

2001-01-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Akim Demaille wrote: VPATH is just set to srcdir? So then, I'm in favor of Derek's patch which seems finer that the current one, and updating the Autoconf documentation to explain exactly what happens. Here's an even slightly better version. It will remove