Re: running tests under in a tests/ directory

[ ] Hello Alejandro, Martin, * aaragon wrote on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:44:57AM CEST: > > I found a Makefile.am file on the internet to run tests under a tests > folder. The code looks like follows: [ *snip*, looks an awful lo

Re: makes which break with `silent-rules'

* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:12:44PM CEST: > On Sunday 2009-05-24 15:24, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> all : > >>echo $(XY_V) > >> > >> XY_V = $(XY_$(V)) > >> XY_0 = silent > >> XY_1 = verbose > >> XY_ = unknown > >> > >> I think this is supported by POSIX. POSIX [1] says: "Mac

Re: makes which break with `silent-rules'

On Sat, 30 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: POSIX says that; however different implementations of 'make' treat forward-references differently. Well that's when you would put XY_V last, just to be sure: XY_ = unknown XY_0 = silent XY_1 = verbose XY_V = $(XY_$(V)) then there is no forward ref

Re: RFE: allow for computed version number

Joseph S. Myers wrote: > GCC, Binutils, GDB and EGLIBC support configure options --with-pkgversion > and --with-bugurl. --with-pkgversion changes the package name used in > --version output (and in manuals), so you get e.g. > > GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.19.1 > > rather than >

Re: RFE: allow for computed version number

Hi Bruno, thanks for the good writeup! * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:15:47AM CEST: > It has been mentioned in a discussion [1][2][3] > "In the medium to long run, Autoconf should be changed to not depend >at autoconf run time upon a volatile version string." > and > "the

Re: running tests under in a tests/ directory

Thank yo Ralf for replying to my post. The code that I showed in my post was indeed taken from that website. The code you provided me is way too advanced for me, since I consider myself just a user. The main idea that I got from your reply is that this new code won't work with older versions of Au