Re: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?

2005-01-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:39:16AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 07:01 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 13:15 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > > > > >> PS: I know this is not the first time, but

Automake 1.9.4 won't pass all tests...

2005-01-16 Thread Ben @ Yahoo
I am trying to install automake 1.9.4 from source on my system. The system is a Slackware 10.0.0 installation on a PII/233. I upgraded m4 to 1.4.2, and also installed Diff Utils 2.8.1 from source.. Additionally, Bison 1.875 is installed, from source I believe. Otherwise, all software is as it com

Re: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?

2005-01-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 07:01 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 13:15 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > > >> PS: I know this is not the first time, but I simply do not > >> understand why you respond to bug reports without C

Mailing list CC's

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Here is a message I recently sent to an individual after observing that they never CC'd the original poster. This seemed topical after reading today's discussion. Bob Thanks very much for answering questions on the mailing lists. It is appreciated. However I noticed today that you have not be

Re: CCing list replies (was: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?)

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Proulx
In this case I looked at the list of people in the discussion, knew they were all subscribed, and intentionally mailed only to the list. ;-) Andreas Schwab wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is not addressed at me, but I also had to learn the hard way > > that > > - some

Re: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas Dickey wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > I normally respond CC:-ing the reporter on auto*.gnu.org lists, because > > they tend to be unreliable. Not have done so in this case was just an > > oversight. > > otoh, when I do that, I usually get 2-3 complaints from people stating > that I shou

Re: How to setup an example programs subdirectory?

2005-01-16 Thread Simon Perreault
On January 11, 2005 06:16, Stepan Kasal wrote: > Another approach would be to put the subdir into SUBDIRS, but prevent > the target `all' from making the programs there: > [...] Thank you! This is much better and cleaner than what I had proposed. This is exactly what I needed. -- Simon Perreaul

Re: CCing list replies (was: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?)

2005-01-16 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is not addressed at me, but I also had to learn the hard way > that > - some gnu.org lists but not all automatically exclude subscribers if > they are listed in To: or Cc:. This is customizable, see the mailman options page. Andreas. -- Andr

Re: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?

2005-01-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 13:15 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: PS: I know this is not the first time, but I simply do not understand why you respond to bug reports without Cc: the reporter. I normally respond CC:-ing the reporter on auto*.gnu.org l

Re: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?

2005-01-16 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 13:15 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: >> PS: I know this is not the first time, but I simply do not >> understand why you respond to bug reports without Cc: the >> reporter. Ralf> I normally respond CC:-in

Re: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?

2005-01-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 13:15 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > PS: I know this is not the first time, but I simply do not > understand why you respond to bug reports without Cc: the > reporter. I normally respond CC:-ing the reporter on auto*.gnu.org lists, because they tend to be unreli

CCing list replies (was: Configuring automake says autoconf 2.58 or higher needed. Have au toconf 2.59 installed. What is/goes wrong?)

2005-01-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Alexandre, * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:15:31PM CET: > > PS: I know this is not the first time, but I simply do not > understand why you respond to bug reports without Cc: the > reporter. We are all losers with this: you waste your time > writing an answ