[PATCH v2.2] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.

2010-08-15 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hmpf. I attached the old patch by mistake, instead of a the new one. What a dope. Hopefully I got it right this time. Again, sorry for the noise. Stefano From 7c44c1df66d4fc5ed3e3978ae95bc0db99f7582c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 12

po / pot file integration: documentation

2010-08-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ralf, Thank you a lot for the willingness to integrate the handling of PO and POT files into Automake (first proposed in 2003: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2003-11/msg00047.html). In order to test our common understanding, and to prepare for the unit tests, here is a proposed patch

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-15 Thread John Calcote
On 8/14/2010 7:09 PM, samson.pierre wrote: Yes it works :-) But I see a little warning when I call autoreconf : `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension I think it is because I use this character ‘%’ in my rules. But this ‘%’ is very interesting to define an implicit rules. Is

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-15 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() samson.pierre samson.pie...@laposte.net () Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:09:50 +0200 (CEST) %.bmp: %.xcf $(GIMP) -i -b '(xcf-bmp $ $@)' -b '(gimp-quit 0)' Is there an equivalent or anything else which can help me to write this rule avoiding this warning message? I think here you can

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:02:21PM CEST: Probably Automake manual (and its readers) could benefit from changing the mysterious: We do not discuss pattern rules here because they are not portable, but they can be convenient in packages that assume GNU `make'.

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-15 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de () Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:32:44 +0200 Yes, with a general example, please. I am unsure what general example means, precisely, so the patch below simply uses the one in The GNU Make Manual. Is that ok?

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 23:32 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: # old fashioned suffix rule, portable .xcf.bmp: $(GIMP) -i -b '(xcf-bmp $ $@)' -b '(gimp-quit 0)' Hey, maybe Automake hackers can riff off this thread in time for the next release... (or, Would you like me to