Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case)

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
[The technical part of your message is CC'd to Autoconf: I don't want to have to duplicate this explanation in one year to someone asking the same questions. That's what the archive is here for.] Ralf == Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf 1. Processing the 1st argument of AC_INIT:

Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case)

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Akim == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf Example: Why should AC_INIT provide an email address or Ralf PACKAGE_BUGREPORT? If a user really wants one, let him put a Ralf AC_PACKAGE_ADDRESS([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or similar into his Ralf configure.ac. Akim No, I've always been in favor of

Re: Migrating to autoconf 2.52g

2002-02-05 Thread John Poltorak
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:06:33AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: John == John Poltorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John How do I set $debug ? I have _no idea_... ~ % autoupdate --help | grep debugnostromo 9:05 -d, --debug don't remove temporary

Autoupdating Flex

2002-02-05 Thread John Poltorak
Can anyone try using autoupdate from autoconf 2.52g with Flex just to make sure it works correctly in a Unix environment? Flex is available from:- ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/non-gnu/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz I'd like to ensure that the problem I'm having with it is down

Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case)

2002-02-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am Die, 2002-02-05 um 09.45 schrieb Akim Demaille: Akim == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf Example: Why should AC_INIT provide an email address or Ralf PACKAGE_BUGREPORT? If a user really wants one, let him put a Ralf AC_PACKAGE_ADDRESS([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or similar into his

Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case)

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Ralf == Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf Probably, I said that. Ralf The problem I have with regard to m4_define() is that it is not Ralf autoupdate-able, or at least very difficult to apply autoupdate, Ralf AFAICT. Ralf Having specialized macros AC_SOMEMACRO it become much

Re: Autoupdating Flex

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
John == John Poltorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Can anyone try using autoupdate from autoconf 2.52g with Flex John just to make sure it works correctly in a Unix environment? John Flex is available from:- John

Re: Autoupdating Flex

2002-02-05 Thread John Poltorak
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:24:38AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: John == John Poltorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Can anyone try using autoupdate from autoconf 2.52g with Flex John just to make sure it works correctly in a Unix environment? John Flex is available from:- John

Re: saving AC development strength

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
| Tom wrote: | it's worse than that: the prevailing philosophy of autoconf 2.5x | is that user-defined macros are neither desirable nor supported. | | It would seem so, sometimes. ;-) I'm dead sure Tom never wrote something like that. It's all Thomas' style. Please, pay attention when

Re: AC quoting rules

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Ah, the light dimly dawns. We need M4 to support Bruce pushquote/popquote. It seems that would solve the issue. It would solve nothing. As a matter of fact, you should understand that changecom, changequote, changeword and changesyntax are

Re: AC quoting rules

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Paul == Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul The documentation is trying to show you the corner cases of M4, Paul so that you know where all the bodies are buried. With that in Paul mind, no wonder it's ugly: it's trying to show you the worst Paul parts of the system. Also, I was trying

Re: Migrating to autoconf 2.52g

2002-02-05 Thread Tim Van Holder
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:37, John Poltorak wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:06:33AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: File::Glob::csh_glob(c:/usr/lib/perl/lib/5.6.0/os2/File/Glob.pm:164): 164:delete $entries{$cxix}; DB2

Re: Migrating to autoconf 2.52g

2002-02-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Tim == Tim Van Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim Well I assume the actual error message means that automate is run Aaah! Puke! Puke! Gross!!! Aaa a autom_4_te ;) a a

Re: excaping the , seperator

2002-02-05 Thread Bruce Korb
Glenn McGrath wrote: I think autoconf is using the comas as seperators I think you're not quoting your arguments correctly. Ah yes, i had to use the [ ] brackets. Is it just me, or is it easy to get confused between [...] {...} (...) ... '...' and the numberous combinations of them.

Re: excaping the , seperator

2002-02-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Glenn McGrath writes: Is it just me, or is it easy to get confused between [...] {...} (...) ... '...' and the numberous combinations of them. Yeah, that's why they invented Lisp. No, wait, it was the other way around. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use cache variables

2002-02-05 Thread Lars Hecking
John D. Burger writes: I have what I think is a style question: If I want to do something with the results of autoconf tests in my configure script, what's the best way to check these results? For instance, say I'd like to do this: AC_CHECK_LIB(norman, snStackPush)

Re: AC quoting rules

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Eggert
From: Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Feb 2002 11:46:29 +0100 Bruce Ah, the light dimly dawns. We need M4 to support Bruce pushquote/popquote. changecom, changequote, changeword and changesyntax are only command line options which are moved into the M4 language Using

Re: How to use cache variables

2002-02-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:26:10PM +, Lars Hecking wrote: My question is, are SOME_VAR and SOME_OTHER_VAR things I should set myself in the optional arguments to the AC_CHECK macros, or should I use cache variables? I'm uneasy about using the latter, because I've had trouble