Autoconf 2.57 is released

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Eggert
The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy to announce the birth of Autoconf 2.57, a bugfix release. - Where can I find it? ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.57.tar.gz (1.1 MB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.57.tar.bz2(811 kB) and soon

Re: how to use multiple automake's at the same time?

2002-12-03 Thread Guido Draheim
Lukas Österreicher wrote: Hi there. I've been having trouble compiling software generated with automake 1.5 (or whatever except 1.4) on my redhat 7.2 system. I have tried upgrading to automake 1.5 but that doesnt work nicely - I have damaged my system that way, and i would not be able to compile

Re: automake 1.7.1 hangs while processing Makefile.am

2002-12-03 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Jason" == Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Jason> One thing I noticed is that if I remove either all of Jason> the 'if MODE_*' OR all of the 'if FORMAT_*' clauses, Jason> then automake doesn't hang. I'm not sure whether that's Jason> helpful, but it was interesting. :)

Re: how to use multiple automake's at the same time?

2002-12-03 Thread Lars Hecking
Eric Siegerman writes: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:00:36PM +0100, Lukas Österreicher wrote: > > How to install automake 1.4 and 1.5 at the same time on a redhat 7.2 system > > (quite a few up2date packages installed already) in the described manner so I > > dont have to worry about version incompa

Re: how to use multiple automake's at the same time?

2002-12-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:00:36PM +0100, Lukas Österreicher wrote: > How to install automake 1.4 and 1.5 at the same time on a redhat 7.2 system > (quite a few up2date packages installed already) in the described manner so I > dont have to worry about version incompatibilities anymore? I do it us

how to use multiple automake's at the same time?

2002-12-03 Thread Lukas Österreicher
Hi there. I've been having trouble compiling software generated with automake 1.5 (or whatever except 1.4) on my redhat 7.2 system. I have tried upgrading to automake 1.5 but that doesnt work nicely - I have damaged my system that way, and i would not be able to compile automake 1.4 sources then.

Re: automake 1.7.1 hangs while processing Makefile.am

2002-12-03 Thread Jason Jordan
I added an EXTRA_shntool_SOURCES line just below shntool_SOURCES containing all possible {mode,format}*.c files and it still hangs, pegging the CPU. As best I can tell, I'm already doing what the info page suggests to do as far as using automake conditionals. BTW, here's the output I see from au

Re: automake 1.7

2002-12-03 Thread DB Troll
zaufi wrote: On Monday 02 December 2002 18:23, DB Troll wrote: Can someone please help me. I am trying to install automake-1.7 because another app says that it cannot use 1.5. Whentrying to configure I get the reply no te and autoconf 2.5> not found. I downloaded and installed autoconf2.57, re

Re: Fwd: Automake 1.7.1b prerelease available (beta for Automake 1.7.2)

2002-12-03 Thread Duncan Gibson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The following prerelease includes fixes for bugs you reported or > fixed. Could you verify it works? > Bugs fixed in 1.7.1b: > ... > * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371) I assume that this relates to the question reported to the automake

Re: automake 1.7.1 hangs while processing Makefile.am

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Willoughby
It would be interesting to see what happens if you list the conditionally compiled sources in an EXTRA_program_SOURCES variable. I know the manual says you don't need to. Do the other methods listed in info '(automake)Conditional Sources' work for you? Regards, Philip Willoughby Systems Prog

Re: Patch: Too many files in AC_OUTPUT cause M4 error

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Eggert
In testing my patch I managed to find a old version of GNU m4 that illustrates the limitation that you mentioned; and my patch tickled that limitation as well. So it looks like your "less conservative patch" is better after all. So I installed your patch instead, as follows. Thanks. 2002-12-02