Re: [PATCH] Don't hide the table of contents

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:40:36PM CEST: Don't hide the table of contents. * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning. Good one! Thanks, also for the explanations. Since the patch doesn't cause HTML node names to change nor

Re: transform2.test failure on Cygwin: replacing an executable with a script

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-13 19:32 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:55:54PM CEST: Den 2010-08-07 17:56 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: install bla.exe .../inst/bin/foo.exe install script.sh .../inst/bin/foo and the second one fails (to overwrite the foo.exe). Does anybody

Re: translation of command line arguments

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-13 20:02 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:38:43AM CEST: *snip* On the other hand, this means that better support for cl means adjusting a number of macros from Autoconf, Gnulib, and maybe Automake as well. For example, what about dependency

Re: [PATCH] Support more C++ extensions for MSVC in the compile script.

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-13 19:08 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: Hi Peter, * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:37:59PM CEST: This is one of the last bits of functionality from the (dwindling) pr-msvc-support branch in Libtool (the remaining bit is triggering the ar-lib script with a new macro and

[PATCH] Optimize compile script on MSYS.

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! As suggested by Ralf, there is room for improvement in the compile script. There is no need to convert filenames when MSYS is going to do it anyway, especially when the conversion costs a bunch of forks. I have tested this patch with this: cat filenames 'EOF' #! /bin/sh foo=0 while test

More problems when overriding autotools in bootstrap

2010-08-16 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. Even with this patch of mine applied: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-08/msg00151.html there are still problems when using non-default autoconf and autom4te to build and test automake. For example, the tests `missing.test' and `missing2.test' fail (see

Re: [PATCH] Optimize compile script on MSYS.

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, [ output reordered to print new vs old ] * Peter Rosin wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:59:13PM CEST: time for file in `./filenames 20 / .cc`; do ./compile cl $file; done real0m9.781s real0m9.875s time for file in `./filenames 20 / .cpp`; do ./compile cl $file; done real

Re: [PATCH] Don't hide the table of contents

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:40:36PM CEST: Don't hide the table of contents. * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning. Good one! Thanks, also for the explanations. Since the patch doesn't cause HTML node names to change nor

Re: [PATCH] Optimize compile script on MSYS.

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-16 20:30 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: Hi Peter, [ output reordered to print new vs old ] * Peter Rosin wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:59:13PM CEST: time for file in `./filenames 20 / .cc`; do ./compile cl $file; done real0m9.781s real0m9.875s time for file in

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Paul Smith wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 04:33:46AM CEST: 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

Recursive `make recheck'

2010-08-16 Thread automake
Hi all, is it possible to add additional recursive targets? I'd like to get `recheck', `check-html' and `recheck-html' to work recursively. Thanks -- k

Re: easier nonrecursive makefiles

2010-08-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: Hmm, or do both: foo_SOURCES += %ADDPREFIX%(%AM_PREFIX%, file1.c file2.c ...) in sub/fragment.am, and with include $(srcdir)/sub/fragment.am would expand (at automake run time) to foo_SOURCES +=

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, John Calcote wrote: The warning you're seeing is harmless enough on platforms that support GNU make. The purpose of the warning is to let you know that your users will not be able to build your project on systems that support the Autotools, but do not support GNU make (not

Re: Makefile to Makefile.am

2010-08-16 Thread John Calcote
On 8/16/2010 9:06 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, John Calcote wrote: The warning you're seeing is harmless enough on platforms that support GNU make. The purpose of the warning is to let you know that your users will not be able to build your project on systems that support

Re: Recursive `make recheck'

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello unnamed user[1], * autom...@raphael.poss.name wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:47:07PM CEST: is it possible to add additional recursive targets? I'd like to get `recheck', `check-html' and `recheck-html' to work recursively. right now, that is only possible by manually coding the