mostlyclean and texinfo outputs (was: Installing gnulib from git)

2009-04-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding bug-automake ] Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:03:31PM CEST: > 'mostlyclean' cleans all files that are created by "make", except those > that people normally want to keep. It's the target people are meant to > invoke when they see "There's too much clutter in

Re: Order-only prerequisites without assuming GNU make

2009-04-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:53:32PM CEST: > I need an order-only prerequisite, but I don't want to assume GNU make. > What should I do? > The obvious way around this is the (somewhat annoying) one of putting the > man page in a separate directory, and using SU

Re: Troubles with proc*C and automake version 1.10

2009-04-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * acprdoer wrote on Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:30:45AM CEST: > > Hi, thanks for the answer. > I've tried removing the verifierCoherence.c and put the verifierCoherence.pc > in the verifierCarte_SOURCES but the Makefile.in isnt generated : > > automake: reading COHERENCE/Makefile.am > automa

Re: Finding library procedures in /usr/local/lib/

2009-04-02 Thread John Calcote
On 4/2/2009 3:45 PM, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: After trying so many options related to libraries I am exhausted. I have a simple program that needs to link with a shared library installed in /usr/local/lib. When using my own simple Makefile and simply adding "-lproject -lm" everything works fine

Re: Finding library procedures in /usr/local/lib/

2009-04-02 Thread John Calcote
Gerald, On 4/2/2009 3:45 PM, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: After trying so many options related to libraries I am exhausted. I have a simple program that needs to link with a shared library installed in /usr/local/lib. When using my own simple Makefile and simply adding "-lproject -lm" everything w

Re: Finding library procedures in /usr/local/lib/

2009-04-02 Thread Peter Johansson
Hello Gerald, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: After trying so many options related to libraries I am exhausted. I have a simple program that needs to link with a shared library installed in /usr/local/lib. When using my own simple Makefile and simply adding "-lproject -lm" everything works fine (l

Finding library procedures in /usr/local/lib/

2009-04-02 Thread Gerald I. Evenden
After trying so many options related to libraries I am exhausted. I have a simple program that needs to link with a shared library installed in /usr/local/lib. When using my own simple Makefile and simply adding "-lproject -lm" everything works fine (libproject is the shared library). But rega

Re: silent build rules

2009-04-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2009-04-02 04:01, Eric Blake wrote: > >One of Ralf's concerns is that you can't do AC_SUBST([V], [1]), because it >interacts badly with various make implementations. That is, the Makefile >must not pre-define V as the only means of setting the package's default, >if it cannot be overr