Re: Anyone remember what AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL was testing for?

2023-04-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the intended effect with -traditional preprocessing. We have (had?) fixinclude code for such pre-std ioctls in GCC. I hope this helps, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer

Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
uts (plus enabling macros to add to inputs and outputs), and having autoconf generate a configure script, script fragments for the regions, and a Makefile with the dependencies inferred from explicit and implicit inputs and outputs. The configure script would then attempt to run make, or run the fr

Re: [committed] Disable shared cache file more.

2004-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 5, 2004, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: You'd better document extensively such inconsistencies such that, when they're addressed, we can re-enable the cache, without the risk of urban legends about problems long solved holding it back. OK, I'll try

Re: [committed] Disable shared cache file more.

2004-01-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
for host packages. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Happy GNU Year! [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} Red Hat GCC Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software EvangelistProfessional serial bug killer

Re: removing the old build/host/target compatibility code (Was:current glibc vs debian sid)

2002-12-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
fine with removing the old scheme for 2.55. I'd like to have an opinion from Alexandre Oliva (Hi pal!). Hi, Akim! Long time! :-) For whatever my opinion is worth at such a late stage of the discussion, I don't think this should be removed in the next 5 years or so. This kind of thing needs a lot

AC_NO_EXECUTABLES is useless for GCC

2002-12-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 10, 2002, Geoff Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't get it. Why does being able to link have anything to do with being native? Being able to *run* tests has to do with being native, but that's not the point, and autoconf already avoids

Re: (toplevel) introduce host subdir configuration in Makefile

2002-12-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
help that, anyway, unless you serialized configure runs or acquire a lock on it and read it back in just in case it was updated before writing it out and releasing the lock; I don't think we want to do that. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: (toplevel) introduce host subdir configuration in Makefile

2002-12-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software EvangelistProfessional serial bug killer

Re: /lib/cpp again

2001-07-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
this opportunity to rename AM_DEPENDENCIES to _AM_DEPENDENCIES, since now it must no longer be called by the user (otherwise it might run before AC_PROG_CC). -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com

Re: ltconfig version `' does not match ltmain.sh version

2001-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 22, 2001, Tilo Riemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is wrong if I get the following error: libtool: ltconfig version ' does not match ltmain.sh version 4a' You're probably still using an 1.3-compatible libtool.m4 with an 1.4a ltmain.sh. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http

Re: AC_C_INLINE test not robust enough?

2001-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, but it appears that the meaning is not the same as that used by GCC :-( -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software

Re: getting a 64 bit integer type

2001-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
bits, but it might well be 72 bits if someone ported a C99 compiler to one of those old 9-bits-per-byte machines. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp

Re: Default values for infodir and mandir [WAS: Re: [autoconf] doc dirs?]

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, otherwise you can't use these options for any of the packages. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software

Re: One step towards includes normalization (Was: Incremental default includes)

2001-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 18, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: int closedir (); Alexandre This doesn't seem very C++-friendly. Do we care? You tell me :) Alexandre Perhaps we should enclose this in #ifdef _cplusplus/#endif OK with me

Re: RFC: Changing AC_DEFINE

2001-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to implement it because it was never necessary. I'm not sure we try echo -E, though. It would probably be nice to do so. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp

Re: One step towards includes normalization (Was: Incremental default includes)

2001-06-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
should enclose this in #ifdef _cplusplus/#endif -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please

Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork()

2001-06-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
fork and vfork, but we'd prefer this over that in case both are available.'' -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free

Re: RFC: Changing AC_DEFINE

2001-06-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 2, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre On Jun 1, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to address the issues raised in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-03/msg00814.html for 2.51

Re: Further on gcc-3.0 sparc-solaris bootstrap failure

2001-06-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the exact configure script in the CVS tree, instead of having it rebuilt with potentially different versions of autoconf. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp

Re: RFC: Changing AC_DEFINE

2001-06-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
turned out to be false at run-time, and we end up not executing the macro at all. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free

Re: RFC: Changing AC_DEFINE

2001-06-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, and how to avoid the problem, but then, I'd have needed the time to do it :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free

Re: FYI: Including stdint.h (Was: autoconf-2.50 docs: Common Behavior/Default Includes)

2001-05-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 31, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include stdlib.h. Looks good to me. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com

Re: Making configure.in so the good compiler is choose

2001-05-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 31, 2001, David Burg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./configure --host=arm-linux --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu And shell variable for compiler will be correctely detected automatically ? Yep, as long as they're not previously set. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http

Re: Making configure.in so the good compiler is choose

2001-05-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
when you're building development tools, and you want the tools you create to generate code for the --target machine type. You'll find that if you specify --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=arm-linux, configure will look for arm-linux-gcc and arm-linux-g++ for CC and CXX. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy

Re: possibly undefined macro: dnl (Was: Autoconf 2.50 is released)

2001-05-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
with anything other than ``well, let's keep backward compatibility, and document this oddity.'' :-( -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva

Re: newbi question on AC_CHECK_FILE Warning message (...cross compiling)

2001-05-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 18, 2001, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva writes: On May 18, 2001, Andrej Aderhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I just want to have this warning disappear. What shall I do ? You have to stop using this macro. It correctly warns you that this macro

Re: newbi question on AC_CHECK_FILE Warning message (...cross compiling)

2001-05-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 18, 2001, Andrej Aderhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I just want to have this warning disappear. What shall I do ? You have to stop using this macro. It correctly warns you that this macro won't work correctly in cross-compilation environments. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana

Re: Autoconf and cross-compiling

2001-05-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 17, 2001, Guido Draheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like a list which autoconf-tests are good for cross-compiling and which are not, or just in some places. autoconf will already warn about tests that aren't good for cross-compiling. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http

Re: Release candidate

2001-05-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 14, 2001, Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it common to use a macro that expands to an lvalue? We've been using this to rename variables but keep them working for backward compatibility. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 12, 2001, Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: There should be a $target-cpp installed with GCC 2.95 or newer. Are you sure? Only about the `or newer' part. It does indeed seem that GCC 2.95 is buggy in this respect. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
' on this list? There should be a $target-cpp installed with GCC 2.95 or newer. So we should probably test for it, to catch cross-compiling cases. But then, gcc -E works too, so perhaps this is not necessary. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: Autoconf 2.49e

2001-04-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 23, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre 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

Re: Possible patch for autoconf?

2001-04-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 20, 2001, Daniel Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a somewhat unusal C compiler and version of unix that is giving me problems with a configure script (using Autoconf 2.13). Try autoconf 2.49e, it's supposed to work with compilers that print stuff when run. -- Alexandre

Re: 2 DJGPP-specific files: in distro or only in DJGPP package

2001-04-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 17, 2001, "Tim Van Holder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a few caveats, and how the DJGPP differs from the 'official' tree Any reason why these shouldn't be part of the autoconf manual? It feels like this is the right place for this kind of information? -- Alexandre Oli

Re: 2 DJGPP-specific files: in distro or only in DJGPP package

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 16, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm against having separate distributions for separate ports, so I'd prefer it if the necessary info is integrated with the Autoconf trunk. Ditto. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ R

Re: configuring for Java.

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 16, 2001, Keith Bostic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone considered doing a package for Java similar to AC_PATH_X? Have a look at the autoconf macro archive, for a start. http://cryp.to/autoconf-archive/ -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 12, 2001, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: auxiliary: Sounds perfect... ;-) Indeed. Its only problem is that people end up naming the directory `aux', which doesn't work on DOS. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
supporting scripts. So SUP is more appropriate than CFG or CONFIG, for the very reason that it's more general. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva

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

2001-04-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
curve of candidate new maintainers, and introduce new foundations for portable scripting. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 10, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre On Apr 6, 2001, Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lobby a name change from AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR to AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR. The SUP would be for either SUPplementary

Re: Release next week?

2001-04-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
:-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
IG" seems a bit strange. And the original point was also o be consistent with *_SRCDIR (no _ before DIR). So AC_CONFIG_CFGDIR? I like better AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR, as suggested by Earnie. The ambiguity is perfect :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 10, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS/ I would like to know why sometimes we end up with ``Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]'' in the CC. That's from Earnie's Reply-To: -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

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

2001-04-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ve our own dog food? :-) AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT (or however it's spelled these days :-) rules! -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 10, 2001, Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. I set the Reply-To that way to help the blind not add my email address back into the distribution. `Mail-Copies-To: never' would presumably have a similar effect. Except that not all mailers respect this. -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: config.status --version

2001-04-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 9, 2001, "Tim Van Holder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNU Autoconf config.status 2.49e generated automatically by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.49e is better, I think. Agreed. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ R

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
it off? I still haven't got a `go' from you. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please

Re: include Makefile.extra

2001-04-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
into the generated Makefile. See AC_SUBST_FILE. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please

Re: [patch] improved version information

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 4, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Produce better version information for config.log header. (_AC_INIT_VERSION): Produce better version information for `configure --version'. Ok, thanks! -- Alexa

Re: gcc -nologo?

2001-04-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
' is coming from autoconf. I suspect it's something in configure.in or in some custom autoconf/m4 macro. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva

Re: AC_TRY_LINK with libtool libraries

2001-04-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
dent, just because it happened to pass the source filename through to the link command, which wouldn't have worked in case the linker were called directly, instead of using the compiler driver? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: gcc -nologo?

2001-04-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
configure decided to fallback to -nologo -E? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*

Re: AC_TRY_LINK with libtool libraries

2001-04-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ir)/libtool $CC" AC_TRY_LINK(blah) CC=$save_CC This doesn't work. libtool needs two-pass compilelink, whereas AC_TRY_LINK assumes $CC can take a source file and generate an executable directly out of it. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ R

Re: autoconf test ': emtpy' problem under Ultrix

2001-03-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 20, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre IIRC, there are filesystems that don't support zero-sized Alexandre files. ISTR that for a time we believed AIX was one such FS, but it has never been de

Re: autoconf test ': emtpy' problem under Ultrix

2001-03-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
able to create empty files. In this particular case, I suppose we can just create an one-empty-line file with `echo empty', then `cat empty whatever' before comparing whatever with empty. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: How do I configure to link to libtcl8.0 or libtcl7.6 depending on what is available?

2001-03-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 15, 2001, Robert Boehne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could read the tcl.h header to get the version numbers, then append that to the library name string, but I want to query more expierenced users in hopes of a better way. Any suggestions? tclConfig.sh -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy

Re: updated win32 macro

2001-03-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
I suggest separating `test for features and display results' from `set variables', so that you can enclose the tests within AC_CACHE_CHECK and still get the variables properly set even when the result was taken from the cache. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ R

Re: config.status invokation inconsistency

2001-03-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
You left `CONFIG_COMMANDS=' out. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mai

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
I missing something about the effects of this new -mwin32 flag? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the macro. The only issue is whether to provide that macro in GNU autoconf or let it evolve separately in the macro archive. I think the latter is a better approach, at least for now. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
g autoconf should address: there's nothing to factor out into a common framework. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Fre

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
it. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: Force alternate path for lib?

2001-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to use -rpath or some similar option when linking the program, or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the newer version of the library is found. Incidentally, this has absolutely nothing to do with autoconf :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: Force alternate path for lib?

2001-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 28, 2001, Emiliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where should I be asking about the possibilities of -rpath? In the linker manual? Maybe in the GNU libtool manual? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva

Re: Running make for autoconf V2.13 with HP-UX 11.0

2001-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
would bail out if it couldn't find flex or lex because of excess quoting I introduced :-( The CVS version correctly sets up LEX='missing lex', instead of failing. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com

Re: Fortran source in subdirectories for libraries

2001-02-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
you should report the problem to the automake mailing list. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software

Re: 2.13 issue with AC_PROG_CXX

2001-02-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 22, 2001, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva writes: I wish all of AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, etc, would have variants or extra arguments that would cause them to be non-fatal in case a compiler isn't found. How about AC_PROG_CC([list], [ACTION-IF-NO]), where

Re: [patch] remove config.status race condition

2001-02-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 17, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Configure-test concurrency will be introduced in Autoconf 3.0 :) :-) That, and sub-configure concurrency. I dream of `configure -j' every time I run configure on the so-called Cygnus unified tree... -- Alexandre Oliva Enj

Re: [patch] don't discard previous config.log before necessary

2001-02-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
_LOG_FD 2' before the `mv' and it should work. But I suppose we need some clean-up action for conf-log.tmp. Also, I have a slight preference for the name config.Tlog instead of conf-log.tmp. But maybe it's just me. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: [patch] don't discard previous config.log before necessary

2001-02-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
lost track of the way these things work a while ago :-( -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist

Re: [patch] remove config.status race condition

2001-02-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
simultaneous config.status running on the same directory. In fact, some time ago, Akim (?) fixed a bug that would often show up in the scenario Lars describes (automake-generated rules and make -j4). We certainly want to support this. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br

Re: [patch] remove config.status race condition

2001-02-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 16, 2001, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. But we don't need reentrancy for configure, do we? Nope. Not even for config.status, AFAIK. We just need concurrency, not reentrancy. Unless a new requirement has entered the picture. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see

Re: AM_CFLAGS

2001-02-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
o override, not for configure.in to override. It's good that aclocal and autoconf won't let you do it easily. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp

Re: AS_ESCAPE: not my kind of AS_ESCAPE

2001-02-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 7, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any patch would be accepted for m4_escape :) m4_sh_escape, maybe? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC

Re: AM_INCLUDE is a bad name.

2001-02-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, ...)]) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: autoconf 2.49c fails if '.' is in PATH

2001-02-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
should we? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: autoconf 2.49c fails if '.' is in PATH

2001-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
named m4. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59)

2001-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
for the build machine, and we can't have a script because we may have to explicitly specify a shell, and then, then shell may not search the PATH. :-( -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD

Re: autoconf 2.49c fails if '.' is in PATH

2001-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 31, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd suggest to fix the second issue :) Alexandre Sure, it should be fixed. But you'll probably remember I Alexandre have always opposed the idea of having a direc

Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59)

2001-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 31, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that falling to `:' is way enough for this case. I hope so. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student

Re: autoconf/145

2001-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ideally, Autoconf should rename VPATH to HIDDEN_VPATH if the original line is exactly "VPATH=@srcdir@" modulo spaces. And `srcdir = .', otherwise VPATH is indeed necessary. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana'

Re: autoconf 2.49c fails if '.' is in PATH

2001-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
r renaming it. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: Bug in AS_ESCAPE, AS_MKDIR_P, or my understanding of M4?

2001-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 30, 2001, "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS_ESCAPE(m4_quote(AS_MKDIR_P(["sdir"])), [\$`]) The simple rule is that every macro argument should be enclosed in quotes. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ R

Re: Checking for libraries

2001-01-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 26, 2001, Stephen Torri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I am confused why its not working Check config.log -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp

Re: autoconf 2.49c AC_CACHE_CHECK failure

2001-01-25 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 25, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should we (i) make sure not to use config.site in the test suite, or (ii) have this test grep out this message? (ii) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: Checking for libraries

2001-01-25 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 25, 2001, Stephen Torri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to check for the existence of a library not just a function of the library as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does. Is there a way to do it? How about AC_CHECK_LIB or AC_HAVE_LIBRARY? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http

Re: Testsuite failures on UnixWare 7.1.1

2001-01-25 Thread Alexandre Oliva
any bugs before the release :-) That's why I suggested you might want to try the CVS tree... -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva

Re: AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS

2001-01-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
with automake in newlib.) Where is it? http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/config-ml.in -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br

Re: AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS

2001-01-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
for INSTALL to be preserved too :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write

Re: Order of arguments when calling the C compiler

2001-01-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
" Nope. First, you look for libraries that don't depend on any others. Then, you test for libraries that depend on them. Order matters, and autoconf is doing The Right Thing (TM). -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
s it is OK that stdlib.h be *always* included in *all the tests*, then it's fine with me. My reasoning is that, if it can be #included twice without error, it can't hurt. I can't think of any problem with it, can you? If not, I'm a happy camper and the patch is ok :-) Or so I hope :-) -- Alexandre Oli

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 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: Testsuite failures on UnixWare 7.1.1

2001-01-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 21, 2001, Matthew Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this because I have no CXX or F77 at this point? Quite likely. Would you give CVS autoconf a spin and see how it goes? It should probably handle the lack of these programs more gracefully. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
b.h' work as an ac_declaration of exit? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write

Re: More exit() troubles - the answer

2001-01-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 19, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:30:48PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: : I'd rather avoid this, if I could help it. Didn't `#include stdlib.h' : work as an ac_declaration of exit? Sure. And couldn't it be #included twice? Did

Re: 10-forbidden-tokens-in-comments.patch

2001-01-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
own testsuite. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists

Re: More exit() troubles

2001-01-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 18, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attached a config.log that shows more problems with exit(). We should probably move the '' case first. This will probably work with VC++, and will be fine for most existing C++ compilers. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Gua

Re: 10-forbidden-tokens-in-comments.patch

2001-01-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 18, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be OK with making this a warning, at least that's much more conventional and understandable. And WARNINGS=error restores the old behavior. Agreed. -W forbidden-tokens -W forbidden-tokens-in-comments Yep. -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: Change request: file names

2001-01-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
. .sh and .pl should be scripts, not files that have to be preprocessed to become scripts. These should be .shin and .plin Of course, on DOS, these will become m4i, shi and pli, but this is no big deal. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

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