texi2dvi ignores -o under unclear circumstances.

2009-08-11 Thread Jack Kelly
Hello, I think I have found a bug with texi2dvi. It seems to manifest only when using -o to write the dvi to a subdirectory and when the .texi file has a sectioning command like @top. texi2dvi emits an identical copy of the dvi file in the current working directory. I found a similar-sounding

Re: texi2dvi ignores -o under unclear circumstances.

2009-08-11 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Jack, Thanks for the report. Running texi2dvi -o doc/foo.dvi doc/foo.texi causes a copy of foo.dvi Akim, are you around now? Can you look into this? (I am drowning just now after two weeks away.) Thanks, Karl

Re: texi2dvi ignores -o under unclear circumstances.

2009-08-11 Thread Jack Kelly
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Karl Berryk...@freefriends.org wrote: Thanks for the report.    Running texi2dvi -o doc/foo.dvi doc/foo.texi causes a copy of foo.dvi I wound up fixing this in my case by adding foo.dvi (equivalent) to CLEANFILES in Makefile.am. Perhaps automake can change the

Re: [PATCH] Automake support for ObjC++

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Peter, * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:23:37AM CEST: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: now that autoconf-2.64 is released, here a revised version of the patch I sent you last week. This new version requires autoconf-2.64 (otherwise aclocal fails)

Re: creating specialized linking rules?

2009-08-11 Thread John Wohlbier
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:04 PM, John Wohlbier johnwohlb...@gmail.comwrote: I'm using libtool in a project where I'm compiling code for the cell processor. The cell requires different compilers to be used on sources compiled for the PowerPC core (PPU) and the synergistic processing unit (SPU).

Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?

2009-08-11 Thread Jack Kelly
Hello list, I am writing a nonrecursive Makefile.am, and cannot find the recommended way of requiring that directories in the source tree have had their equivalents created in the build tree. This has led me to write rules like this: 8--- doc/fake437-primitive.texi: doc/$(am__dirstamp)

simple 'install of png file' question

2009-08-11 Thread David Liebman
Hello, This is a newbie question. I have a simple project that I'm using automake and autoconf on. It involves a simple c program, but uses a png image. The png image is in a directory called 'pics' and I want it copied to a certain directory on the system when the user calls the 'install'

Re: simple 'install of png file' question

2009-08-11 Thread John Calcote
Hi David, On 8/11/2009 7:28 AM, David Liebman wrote: Hello, This is a newbie question. I have a simple project that I'm using automake and autoconf on. It involves a simple c program, but uses a png image. The png image is in a directory called 'pics' and I want it copied to a certain

Re: Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:37:22PM CEST: I am writing a nonrecursive Makefile.am, and cannot find the recommended way of requiring that directories in the source tree have had their equivalents created in the build tree. This has led me to write rules like this:

Re: Tests fail due to argument list too long

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bob, this was about: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/10894/focus=10898 * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 10:05:25PM CEST: Something surprising about the AIX 4.3.3 argument list length problem is that I am not seeing this problem reported

Re: Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?

2009-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: Unfortunately, Automake doesn't yet provide a good API for directory stamping yet. You can easily use your own though, that don't interfere with automake's stamps and rules: subdir/generated-file: subdir/my-dirstamp commands ...

Re: aclocal.m4 location

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Sam, * Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:06:03PM CEST: automake requires aclocal.m4 to be present in the current directory. this is not the case for me, I have one master aclocal.m4 and a few subprojects, each with its own Makefile.am and configure.in. this means that for

Re: aclocal.m4 location

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Steingold
Hi Ralf, On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ralf Wildenhuesralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: * Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:06:03PM CEST: automake requires aclocal.m4 to be present in the current directory. this is not the case for me, I have one master aclocal.m4 and a few