Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Lars J. Aas
Does such a thing exist? Should it be a goat? I'm thinking of something to stick on the web pages... Lars J

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Does such a thing exist? Not that I know of. Lars> Should it be a goat? I'm thinking of something to stick on the Lars> web pages... Would be great to have one for Libtool, one for Automake and one for Autoconf which would compose

Unexpected behaviour/bug whilst using AC_CHECK_PROG

2001-04-20 Thread Pontus Sköld
(verified this for version 2.13 and a version claiming to be 2.14.1, version 2.49-d from alpha.gnu.org seems to behave similarly when I look at the code in acgeneral.m4). Hi, whilst configuring ratpoison (a very nice window manager), I ran into problems with the following piece from con

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:13:51PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: : Lars> Should it be a goat? I'm thinking of something to stick on the : Lars> web pages... : : Would be great to have one for Libtool, one for Automake and one for : Autoconf which would compose into a logo for the set. This set ma

Re: Unexpected behaviour/bug whilst using AC_CHECK_PROG

2001-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
> (verified this for version 2.13 and a version claiming to be 2.14.1, > version 2.49-d from alpha.gnu.org seems to behave similarly when I > look at the code in acgeneral.m4). > > Hi, > > whilst configuring ratpoison (a very nice window manager), I ran into > problems with the followin

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lars> Should it be a goat? I'm thinking of something to stick on the > Lars> web pages... > > Would be great to have one for Libtool, one for Automake and one for > Autoconf which would compo

AC_CHECK_LIB qustion

2001-04-20 Thread Paul Wighton
Hello I've got a quick question about the AC_CHECK_LIB macro: What directories does this macro search in?? is it just standard ones (like /usr/lib) or will it also search directories specifed by certain environment variables and/or script variables (such as LIBS) It seems to me that it only sea

Documentation chapter: The GNU build system?

2001-04-20 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Is anyone working on this section of the manual? I could have a stab at writing a short overview for the release, just so that we have something there. As far as I can see, the main task should just be to explain what the other tools are, why it is good idea to use them together, and point the u

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 20 Apr 2001 11:21:01 -0400 > > How about jigsaw puzzle pieces that fit together. (Has that been > used elsewhere?) Yes, but we could do it better. Here's a suggestion: take the logos from the Plan of St Gall. This is a famous architectural diagram

Re: Documentation chapter: The GNU build system?

2001-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Steven" == Steven G Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steven> Is anyone working on this section of the manual? I planned to write it several times, but never made it. Good material is to be found in http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf/ Steven> As far as I

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:09:27AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: : Here's a suggestion: take the logos from the Plan of St Gall. A logo should be relatively small and clear - that plan can only fulfill one of those criterias at a time. I was also hoping for something with a couple of colors besides

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:52:08PM +0200, Lars J. Aas wrote: > Does such a thing exist? Should it be a goat? > I'm thinking of something to stick on the web pages... Hercules slaying the hydra :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With suffici

Autoconf 2.49e

2001-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Autoconf 2.49e is available as ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.49e.tar.gz The code is absolutely frozen, this is our release candidate. We still have much freedom on the documentation, of course. Alexandre, if you still think we should branch now, please do. Please tell u

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Friday 20 April 2001 2:45 pm, Lars J. Aas wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:13:51PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > : Lars> Should it be a goat? I'm thinking of something to stick on the > : Lars> web pages... > : > : Would be great to have one for Libtool, one for Automake and one for > : Au

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Guido Draheim
Eric Siegerman wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:52:08PM +0200, Lars J. Aas wrote: > > Does such a thing exist? Should it be a goat? > > I'm thinking of something to stick on the web pages... > > Hercules slaying the hydra :-) or just the hydra :-) well, there's just that impression o

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-20 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Gary V.Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ian Lance Taylor's family have a goat farm with a website > (http://www.blacklocust.com) full of pictures -- we might even persuade him > to pose and photograph some goats for us on his next visit... ;-) I can try, but in my last photo expedition I

Possible patch for autoconf?

2001-04-20 Thread Daniel Carroll
Hello, I have a somewhat unusal C compiler and version of unix that is giving me problems with a configure script (using Autoconf 2.13). The result is that configure incorrectly decides that the header doesn't exist. There are two related reasons for this problem: a) The C compiler likes

Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf

2001-04-20 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:17 am, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alexandre> On Apr 11, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We are about to write new tools, typically autom4te, on top of > >> which autoheader, autoconf e

Re: Autoconf 2.49e

2001-04-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 20, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The code is absolutely frozen, this is our release candidate. We > still have much freedom on the documentation, of course. Please tag the tree as autoconf-2_49e immediately. Then, we can always branch off the tag if needed. -- Alex

Re: macro doc inconsistencies

2001-04-20 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Sunday 15 April 2001 4:00 pm, Lars J. Aas wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:04:37AM -0400, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > : On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > : > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:21:03PM -0400, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > : > > This macro is documented in the manual but I c

Re: Technical Review

2001-04-20 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Friday 20 April 2001 7:12 pm, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gary> Salut Akim! > > Coucou ! Qu'est-ce que c'est? > The test suite includes this: > > ## ## > > ## Autoconf & Libtool. ## > > ## ##