Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Improved support for generated Make rules

2009-04-25 Thread Tom Howard
You wrote: a while ago, you submitted a patch and I have to apologize for responding so late. I'm working on moving the Autoconf Archive to a public repository at gnu.org. Once that's done, it will be much easier for everyone to contribute patches. You wrote: > The patch series that f

Re: Automake 1.10b test release

2009-04-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Ok so I was a bit too hasty here. Explicitly supplying V=0 to make 'solved' that. But I would like to have an option or some kind so that V=1 can be made default without having to pass --enable-silent-rules to configure.. (Conversely, a user can still ov

Re: whitespaces truncated [Automake 1.10b test release]

2009-04-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Tuesday 2009-03-31 01:21, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >I'm pleased to announce the Automake 1.10b test release. It contains >a bunch of new features, and a bunch of bugfixes over previous versions, >and probably a bunch of new bugs. Highlights, in no particular order: >[...] As silent-rules stand

Re: Automake 1.10b test release

2009-04-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2009-04-25 23:19, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Tuesday 2009-03-31 01:21, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>I'm pleased to announce the Automake 1.10b test release. It contains >>a bunch of new features, and a bunch of bugfixes over previous versions, >>and probably a bunch of new bugs. Highligh

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-25 Thread JRS
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:01:18AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Well, one important bit for features that Automake aims to offer is > that, while we don't mind exploiting the better functionality present > on powerful systems like GNU/Linux, we would like to be able to degrade > gracefully on l

Re: Automake 1.10b test release

2009-04-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Tuesday 2009-03-31 01:21, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >I'm pleased to announce the Automake 1.10b test release. It contains >a bunch of new features, and a bunch of bugfixes over previous versions, >and probably a bunch of new bugs. Highlights, in no particular order: I just now tried v1.10b-48-g

Re: installcheck example

2009-04-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Lorenzo, * Lorenzo Bettini wrote on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:08:40AM CEST: > > are there any installcheck examples? I mean an example that uses a > Makefile.am with some installcheck targets? The Autoconf package uses an installcheck-local target together with an Autotest test suite:

installcheck example

2009-04-25 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi are there any installcheck examples? I mean an example that uses a Makefile.am with some installcheck targets? The hello package does not implement this target, unfortunately. thanks in advance Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DI, Univ. Torino ICQ# lbetto, 160

Re: DESTDIR vs `make install exec_prefix='

2009-04-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Harlan, a post-scriptum to this: * Harlan Stenn wrote on Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:48:50PM CEST: > Ralf wrote: > > > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > > make > > make install exec_prefix= DESTDIR=/tmp/dest > > > > most likely copies executable files into the /tmp/dest directory, which

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jason, all, * Jason Spence wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:01:20AM CEST: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:33:47AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * JRS wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:02:55AM CEST: > > > I was setting up build infrastructure once again when it occurred to > > > me, hmm, wou