Re: autoheader: warning: missing template

2009-04-21 Thread Noah Misch
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:51:33PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > cd vacall && PATH/autoheader --include=PATH > autoheader: warning: missing template: __IREG_FLOAT_RETURN__ > autoheader: Use AC_DEFINE([__IREG_FLOAT_RETURN__], [], [Description]) >> *yes) AC_DEFINE([__IREG_FLOAT_RETURN__]) ;; This

Re: RFC: proposed GPLv3 license exception draft

2009-04-21 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 20:46 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > We hope that this new exception will help make Autoconf's licensing a > little more clear and robust -- if also a little more verbose -- in the > same way that GPLv3 has done for the entire free software community. We > are interested i

Re: RFC: proposed GPLv3 license exception draft

2009-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Wildenhues writes: > "Eligible Output Material" is Covered Code that is included in the > standard, minimally verbose, non-debugging and non-tracing output of > the version of Autoconf distributed to you under this License. > Moreover, "Eligible Output Material" may be comprised only of Cove

Re: RFC: proposed GPLv3 license exception draft

2009-04-21 Thread Karl Berry
minimally verbose, non-debugging and non-tracing output I'm not sure whether "minimally verbose" means "not verbose at all" or "only a low level of verbosity". I'm further confused because I associate "verbose" with -v, but I didn't think affected the output, only the reporting to stdout/err

Re: autoheader: warning: missing template

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Steingold
I first reported this problem almost a year ago. there were no replies, and the problem is still there. any ideas? I am using autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.62 Sam Steingold wrote: I get this error: autoheader: warning: missing template: __IREG_FLOAT_RETURN__ autoheader: Use AC_DEFINE([__IREG_FLO

Re: RFC: proposed GPLv3 license exception draft

2009-04-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:00:47PM CEST: > > Autotest output should be in the same category as configure scripts - > the intent is that a package can distribute and autotest-based > testsuite regardless of the package's license. I agree. > However, the above definition, by spe

Re: RFC: proposed GPLv3 license exception draft

2009-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes: > We hope that this new exception will help make Autoconf's licensing a > little more clear and robust -- if also a little more verbose -- in the > same way that GPLv3 has done for the entire free software community. We > are interested in hearing feedback from Au

RFC: proposed GPLv3 license exception draft

2009-04-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ cross-posted to several groups; please followup on the autoconf list ] In order to complete the GNU Project's migration to GPLv3, every GNU program that has exceptions to its license needs to have those exceptions updated for GPLv3. We've prepared draft text for an updated version of the Autoco

Re: question about how to continue a line of text in AC_MSG_ERROR macro call...

2009-04-21 Thread John Calcote
Ed, On 4/21/2009 7:45 AM, Ed Hartnett wrote: Howdy all! I want to put a line break in the error message so that I don't have such a long line in my configure.ac file. But if I do this: AC_MSG_ERROR([NetCDF-4 requires HDF5, but hdf5.h cannot be found. Try using \ the --with-hdf5

question about how to continue a line of text in AC_MSG_ERROR macro call...

2009-04-21 Thread Ed Hartnett
Howdy all! Here's a question of style. I have the following code: # If HDF5 is not found, error out if the user specifically asked for # netcdf-4, otherwise just turn netCDF-4 off. if test "x$nc_hdf5_h_missing" = xyes; then if test "x$enable_netcdf_4" = xyes; then AC_MSG_ERROR([NetCDF-4