Re: acversion.in now?

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: Tim == Tim Van Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim Judging by the interesting appearance and disappearance of files Tim in the repository, I assume someone (presumably Akim) is in the Tim process of renaming autoconf.sh and friends to .in, Nice guess :) By the way,

Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

2001-03-29 Thread Derek R. Price
"Lars J. Aas" wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:29:14PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: : Lars J. Aas writes: : : A Gnits dude would probably prefer : : : : configure (AC_PACKAGE_NAME) AC_PACKAGE_VERSION : : generated by GNU Autoconf AC_ACVERSION : : Or : : configure

Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

2001-03-29 Thread Derek R. Price
"Lars J. Aas" wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:29:19AM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: : I also don't see a reason why it would be very useful to maintain a version : on a configure script separate from the pacage version. Anyone else? If you follow development sources through C

Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

2001-03-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Tim Van Holder wrote: GNU configure (PACKAGE VERSION) AC_VERSION After all, the relevant version number for configure itself, is that of the autoconf that created it; the name version of the package it's intended for are useful extra information. And since you explicitly call it _GNU_,

Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

2001-03-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Tim Van Holder wrote: True. But if you apply 'the program being run', then you need a seperate version for configure, as it is neither autoconf, nor the package, really. I guess that is what it boils down to: do we see 'configure' as a) a program in its own right, b) an inextricable part of

Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

2001-03-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Ivan Vlaev wrote: Sorry if you already discussed it but, what about having both: configure --version and configure --autoconf-version at least i don't expect any-program --version to dump the version of the compiler used for building it. Probably this is matter of which version

Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

2001-03-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Quoth the GCS: If you *need* to mention the version numbers of libraries which (Autoconf is sort of a library...) are distributed separately from the package which contains this program, you can do so by printing an additional line of version

Rename atomicity

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
Anyone ever tried to come up with a test for whether a rename across directories on the same file system/partition is atomic? The best I can come up with is to rename a large file in a background process and try and kill it real quick, but I don't think that would remain reliable across a wide

Re: AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Rasmus Tamstorf wrote: Maybe I'm missing something obvious though, so if anyone would like to enlighten me about how to deal easily with the code-debug-code cycle using a separate build tree, please let me know. I find that modern window managers make most of the cd/path point moot as I just

Re: AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

2001-02-28 Thread Derek R. Price
, but it turned out that I hadn't. Rasmus Tamstorf wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: Rasmus Tamstorf wrote: AC_OUTPUT([src/_$ARCH/Makefile:src/Makefile.in]) You know, there's a much more painless way to do this. Autoconf already knows that if you: mkdir $ARCH cd

Re: AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

2001-02-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Rasmus Tamstorf wrote: Hmmm ... I'm not sure I understand ... My 'configure' script is in 'topdir' (or preferably in 'topdir/config' but that's a different story). Autoconf always assumes it is in topdir. I suspect there's no easy way to work around that. Furthermore I'd like to be able

Autotest

2001-02-23 Thread Derek R. Price
What's the reason autotest uses a while/shift loop is used to read arguments? 'getopts' is specified by XPG4, Posix.2, and SUS2. Is that not portable enough? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue (

Re: AC_CANONICAL_*

2001-02-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello, Derek! On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: Why do the AC_CANONICAL_* functions no longer set *_alias? There's a "cvs annotate" and "cvs log" are your friends. Akim did it. But the log message is silent about "FIXME". Akim?

AC_CANONICAL_*

2001-02-09 Thread Derek R. Price
Why do the AC_CANONICAL_* functions no longer set *_alias? There's a FIXME comment and fixing it would be a matter of removing the 'dnl', as far as I can see and the CVS Automake is still expecting *_alias to be set: # _AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT(THING) # -- # Generate the

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

2001-01-31 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: 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. So the above _

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

2001-01-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: | "Derek R. Price" wrote: | Alexandre Oliva wrote: | | 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 sho

Re: Autoshell

2001-01-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Tim Van Holder wrote: I can send you the offending configure.in if you like. It's the one If you mean the AC_TRY_COMMAND() in the test for the BSD VPATH issue, I tried using ... No, that one's still working fine. I think this was related to my attempt to rewrite AM_CONFIG_HEADERS the

Re: Autoshell

2001-01-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Why can't I use AS_* macros from configure.in? Derek ??? I guess you are using a new autoconf with old lib files. Either use an *installed* CVS Autoconf, or be usre to point to the location of the

Re: Autoshell

2001-01-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek I did install it. Even more bizarre is that if I trim the Derek configure.in down to just the first 8 lines (the last being, Derek 'AS_MKDIR_P(["test/dir"])'), it works, but with the whole

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

2001-01-30 Thread Derek R. Price
With the latest CVS Autoconf: [dprice@empress testSubDir]$ cat configure.ac \EOF AC_INIT() AS_ESCAPE(m4_quote(AS_MKDIR_P(["sdir"])), [\$`]) EOF [dprice@empress testSubDir]$ rm configure.in [dprice@empress testSubDir]$ autoconf [dprice@empress testSubDir]$

Autoshell

2001-01-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Why can't I use AS_* macros from configure.in? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want bread.

Re: Autoshell

2001-01-24 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Why can't I use AS_* macros from configure.in? Oh. I can't call them from Automake macros... anyone know why that doesn't work? It generates the following error: [dprice@empress ccvs-automake]$ autoconf configure:6517: error: undefined macro: AS_MKDIR

Re: VPATH elimination by configure

2001-01-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: So, I think I'm slowly starting to understand this VPATH stuff: configure wants to remove it only when useless, right? I.e., when VPATH is just set to srcdir? So then, I'm in favor of Derek's patch which seems finer that the current one, and updating the Autoconf

Re: VPATH elimination by configure

2001-01-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Akim Demaille wrote: VPATH is just set to srcdir? So then, I'm in favor of Derek's patch which seems finer that the current one, and updating the Autoconf documentation to explain exactly what happens. Here's an even slightly better version. It w

Re: Your 2000-01-10 change CVS src/Makefile.am

2001-01-20 Thread Derek R. Price
Raja R Harinath wrote: There's no 'setgid' bit on the /tmp directory. Does BSD still exhibit 'setgid' behaviour? To back up what Eric Siegerman said, I believe setgid behavior is the (unavoidable?) default on BSD systems, but I just started playing with them so don't ask me to start quoting

Re: CVS checkouts of *.in and *.am files

2001-01-20 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jan 19, 2001, "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harlan Stenn wrote: - on checkin, check the files in with the timestamp on the "local" file - on checkout/update, get the list of files that will be "messed with" an

Re: CVS checkouts of *.in and *.am files

2001-01-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Harlan Stenn wrote: Folks have recently discussed things like "egcs_update" and other related scripts that attempt to check out/update certain "master" files before doing a checkout of "derived" files. Before saying something stupid on the CVS list, I thought I'd try my idea out here! A

Re: Your 2000-01-10 change CVS src/Makefile.am

2001-01-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Autoconf folks, the comment on 'mv' in the Portable Shell section of the new manual might not be appropriate: `mv' The only portable options are `-f' and `-i'. Moving individual files between file systems is portable (it was in V6), but it is not always atomic: when doing `mv

Re: VPATH elimination by configure

2001-01-17 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Ganesan" == Ganesan Rajagopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ganesan I am curious which versions of automake actually remove Ganesan VPATH. s/make/conf/. Well all the known versions, under some conditions only. # Any assignment to VPATH causes Sun make to only execute

Re: Ultrix problem

2000-12-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Harlan Stenn wrote: /bin/sh: BA: not found WARNING: `:' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your system. You might have modified some files without having the proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file, it often tells you