automake 1.96 test results

2010-08-10 Thread Travis McBride
Hello, make check asked me to send this info to you. The attached files shows a screen dump of the test results.aclocal7.test was marked FAIL, while auxdir2.test, cond17.test, and txinfo5.test were marked XFAIL. I'm building on darwin, MAC OS X version 10.6.4. -- Travis McBride PhD

Re: automake 1.96 test results

2010-08-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Travis. Automake 1.9.6 is almost five yars old by now. There is any compelling reason forcing you tu use such an old version? If not, why don't you try the latest automake release (1.11.1) instead? Note that you should avoid Automake 1.11, since it has a security vurnerability (this

Re: AX_MPI/ACX_MPI and packages using only the MPI compiler wrappers

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Ralf, your patch has been committed here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf-archive.git/commit/?id=ba0327dd596e8b77e7db497d10f35cf980b27a62 Thanks a lot for the contribution! Take care, Peter

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-10 09:01 skrev Peter Rosin: BTW, why is ! better than ^ here? Just curious. I found the answer myself. Quoting the portable shell chapter in the autoconf manual: | 11.5 Shell Pattern Matching | | Nowadays portable patterns can use negated character classes | like ‘[!-aeiou]’. The

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/10/2010 01:01 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: Further I'm fixing the archive and the compile script to use ! not ^ for shell pattern negation, and using $me also in the --help output. I tested with $me in the --help output but didn't get it to work so I removed it. But your version works.

Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and extend tests `pr*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
A quick update. I added to each pr[0-9]*.test the description of the correspoding bug report, and also split the previous patch so that the changes to tests for PR and the changes tests for unrelated tests pr[!0-9]*.test are now done by two separated commits. The updated patches are attached.

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:01:29AM CEST: 'wrappar' did cross my mind, but that just looks like a funny accent :-) Yes, that one is funny indeed, and another almost-palindrome. Den 2010-08-09 21:39 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: Further I'm fixing the archive and the compile script

Re: [PATCH] Minor improvements for tests `acloca*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:28:44AM CEST: Being forced to rescan this patch some time after having written it, I must admit that the noise-to-improvement ratio is way too high. So OK, let's drop most of this patch. However, I'd like to retain a couple of changes more

No rule to make target in a BUILT_SOURCES, non-recursive, multi-directory project

2010-08-10 Thread Daily, Jeff A
I have almost the same situation as a post many years ago. The solution didn't seem to apply, however, http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/automake@gnu.org/3498366.html I am using subdir-objects and I have a single, top-level Makefile.am: #*snip* BUILT_SOURCES = lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la

Re: No rule to make target in a BUILT_SOURCES, non-recursive, multi-directory project

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jeff, * Daily, Jeff A wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:54:53PM CEST: I am using subdir-objects and I have a single, top-level Makefile.am: #*snip* BUILT_SOURCES = lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la libfoo_la_SOURCES = #*snip* If HAVE_PYTHON BUILT_SOURCES += foo/bar/wapi.c foo/bar/wapi.c:

RE: No rule to make target in a BUILT_SOURCES, non-recursive, multi-directory project

2010-08-10 Thread Daily, Jeff A
#*snip* BUILT_SOURCES = lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la libfoo_la_SOURCES = #*snip* If HAVE_PYTHON BUILT_SOURCES += foo/bar/wapi.c foo/bar/wapi.c: foo/bar/papi.h $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/wapi.py -rm -f foo/bar/wapi.c \ $(PYTHON) $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/wapi.py $

Re: No rule to make target in a BUILT_SOURCES, non-recursive, multi-directory project

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Daily, Jeff A wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:45:43PM CEST: Which make version and implementation, Please answer this one as well.

RE: No rule to make target in a BUILT_SOURCES, non-recursive, multi-directory project

2010-08-10 Thread Daily, Jeff A
Which make version and implementation, Please answer this one as well. Sorry for missing that. GNU Make 3.81 built for i386-apple-darwin9.0.

Re: call for help/crazy idea: nmake support

2010-08-10 Thread Natalie Tasman
Hi Ralf, I think this is a great idea and would be interested in hearing your plans for moving forward. I've invested a lot of time in an autotools build system that works on *nix and mingw (and cross-compiling to mingw from linux!) and I do think this would be interesting to see this work on