Re: bug in perl formline in automake

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, thanks for the report. * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 03:52:29PM CET: automake --help contains this: What is automake --version and perl -V? Any local patches in it that would deviate the line numbers? Files which are automatically distributed, if found: Use of

Re: how to link other libraries to *my* library...

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ed Hartnett wrote on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:47:47PM CET: Ralf Wildenhues writes: * Ed Hartnett wrote on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:14:24PM CET: The netCDF C library uses other libraries, for example the hdf5, hdf5_hl, and zlib libraries. I was building the library without explicitly

Re: Docbook pdf generation - copying png images to build directory?

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Daniel Leidert wrote on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:19:43PM CET: Clifford Yapp wrote: I have a situation where I need to copy png images from a source directory to the build directory prior to running other build rules, and I am having some trouble formulating a rule to do the job.

Re: Docbook pdf generation - copying png images to build directory?

2009-11-14 Thread Daniel Leidert
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Daniel Leidert wrote on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:19:43PM CET: Clifford Yapp wrote: I have a situation where I need to copy png images from a source directory to the build directory prior to running other build rules, and I am having some trouble formulating a

Re: Docbook pdf generation - copying png images to build directory?

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Daniel Leidert wrote on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 01:44:52PM CET: I will check my local copies as soon as I'm back. All I can say is, that the above works well (also if builddir != srcdir). I'm not sure it will work with non-GNU makes, though. Cheers, Ralf

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. Sounds reasonable to me, esp. since it doesn't even use git in any way (yet). In

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 14:06 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. Sounds

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Peter Johansson
Gaetan Nadon wrote: If you want to modify files in automake, then you are doing development, rather than just installing the software. Given that automake requires itself, there may be special things to do. In any case, nothing should be added to the tarball that isn't required for

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 09:35 -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: Gaetan Nadon wrote: If you want to modify files in automake, then you are doing development, rather than just installing the software. Given that automake requires itself, there may be special things to do. In any case, nothing

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2009-11-14 14:06, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. Sounds reasonable to me,

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Peter Johansson wrote: From where did you get that rule? It doesn't go very well with the fact that automake by default adds Makefile.am, configure.ac and other .m4 files to the tarball. Those files will never be useful for a pure ./configure; make; make install, but as