Re: _AS_LN_S_PREPARE question

* Duft Markus wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 12:25:03PM CET: > > I configure something with --build=i586-pc-winnt on an i586-pc-interix* > host. I use build to keep anybody from thinking, that we're cross > compiling (in reality i am cross-compiling, but still i can execute > those binaries). As co

Re: Feature Request: Administrator Install

Hello David, * David Masterson (damaster) wrote on Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:37:00AM CET: > > Thanks. You output a lot of good information (except $PATH -- how do I > know where you found gcc? ;-). I think it would be nice if this was a > standard part of autoconf so that all tools would have (a

Re: Which variable expands to /var?

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'm not sure I understand. With this config.site file, you still have to `./configure --prefix=/usr' in order for the changes to apply. But then, even without the config.site file, users will generally overwrite packages tools. That is a good point.

Re: Which variable expands to /var?

Hello Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:07:14PM CET: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eric Blake wrote: > > >Thanks for the feedback. I withdraw my support for a --with-fhs option; > >instead, I'm adding this to the manual: > > It seems to me that the documentation should include a w

Re: Which variable expands to /var?

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eric Blake wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I withdraw my support for a --with-fhs option; instead, I'm adding this to the manual: It seems to me that the documentation should include a warning that OS distributions should not provide a default config.site file with this

Re: Which variable expands to /var?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 2/8/2008 8:23 AM: |> +test "$sharedstatedir" = '${prefix}/com' && sharedstatedir=/var | | For texi, you need to s/[{}]/@&/g. Thanks for the patch. Bah. Thanks; fixed. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun

Re: Which variable expands to /var?

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:18:44PM CET: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 2/8/2008 12:08 AM: > | Maybe I'm being dense, but there are lots of users complaining that > | configure already has far too many options. And you want to introduce > | yet another one as a shortcut for >

Re: Which variable expands to /var?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 2/8/2008 12:08 AM: | Maybe I'm being dense, but there are lots of users complaining that | configure already has far too many options. And you want to introduce | yet another one as a shortcut for | | cat >path/to/conf

RE: _AS_LN_S_PREPARE question

Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Markus, > > * Duft Markus wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:44:39AM CET: >> >> I have aquestion: I'm porting to windows (cross compiled from >> interix). Interix has a working ln, but windows doesn't understand >> those links. Now I wanted

Re: _AS_LN_S_PREPARE question

Hello Markus, * Duft Markus wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:44:39AM CET: > > I have aquestion: I'm porting to windows (cross compiled from interix). > Interix has a working ln, but windows doesn't understand those links. > Now I wanted to check for winnt in _AS_LN_S_PREPARE. Can I use > AC_CANON

_AS_LN_S_PREPARE question

Hi! I have aquestion: I'm porting to windows (cross compiled from interix). Interix has a working ln, but windows doesn't understand those links. Now I wanted to check for winnt in _AS_LN_S_PREPARE. Can I use AC_CANONICAL_HOST for this? What I'd need is the config.guess output. Cheers, Markus _