Re: on Windows, BUILT_SOURCES does not append .exe

2010-11-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Dave Hart wrote on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:34:47AM CET: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 22:44 UTC, Vincent Torri wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> * Vincent Torri wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:14:23PM CET: > >>> If I don't use BUILT_SOURCES, cmapdump binary is not built be

Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping

2010-11-21 Thread John Calcote
On 11/21/2010 07:09 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > John Calcote writes: >> You need to remember the original target audience of GNU software was >> a group of people that wanted to share free software. Most of them >> were students or researchers that generally built software distributed >> in source f

Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping

2010-11-21 Thread Miles Bader
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > I personally would not have written it that way in the first place, but > given that it is there now, I don't want to simply replace it with bland > text, or occupy rms's time with it, either. Yeah, I think there's nothing particularly offensive about th

Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping

2010-11-21 Thread Miles Bader
John Calcote writes: > You need to remember the original target audience of GNU software was > a group of people that wanted to share free software. Most of them > were students or researchers that generally built software distributed > in source form. ... > That being the case, "users" were prog

Re: on Windows, BUILT_SOURCES does not append .exe

2010-11-21 Thread Dave Hart
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 22:44 UTC, Vincent Torri wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Vincent Torri wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:14:23PM CET: >>> If I don't use BUILT_SOURCES, cmapdump binary is not built before >>> libcmaps, hence cmap_tounicode.c is not created, and comp

Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping

2010-11-21 Thread John Calcote
You need to remember the original target audience of GNU software was a group of people that wanted to share free software. Most of them were students or researchers that generally built software distributed in source form. Only in the last 10 years has Linux become generally popular. Before that t

Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping (was: default -g ??!?)

2010-11-21 Thread Karl Berry
Karl, what do you think about this rewording The second hunk adds real information, so I'll go ahead and install that. The first hunk, though, I just can't agree with, and I feel pretty sure that rms would not approve of such a change either. "Helpless" is a good description of people faced

Re: on Windows, BUILT_SOURCES does not append .exe

2010-11-21 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Vincent Torri wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:14:23PM CET: noinst_PROGRAMS = cmapdump cmapdump_SOURCES = mupdf-0.7/mupdf/cmapdump.c noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libfitz.la libdraw.la libcmaps.la libfonts.la libmupdf.la cmap_tounicode_files = \ mupdf-

Re: on Windows, BUILT_SOURCES does not append .exe

2010-11-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Vincent Torri wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:14:23PM CET: > noinst_PROGRAMS = cmapdump > cmapdump_SOURCES = mupdf-0.7/mupdf/cmapdump.c > > noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libfitz.la libdraw.la libcmaps.la libfonts.la libmupdf.la > cmap_tounicode_files = \ > mupdf-0.7/cmaps/Adobe-CNS1-UCS2 \ [...] > lib

Re: default -g ??!?

2010-11-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The reason why users are helpless without debugging symbols is if a program crashes, all they can look at are the machine registers at the state of the crash. This is completely useless for figuring out why the program crashed, or getting help from another hacker to figure out why it crashed.

Re: on Windows, BUILT_SOURCES does not append .exe

2010-11-21 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Vincent, * Vincent Torri wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:51:53PM CET: noinst_PROGRAMS = cmapdump fontdump BUILT_SOURCES = cmapdump fontdump With MSYS, noinst_PROGRAMS is set to cmapdump$(EXEEXT) fontdump$(EXEEXT) but BUILT_SOURCES is set

Re: on Windows, BUILT_SOURCES does not append .exe

2010-11-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Vincent, * Vincent Torri wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:51:53PM CET: > noinst_PROGRAMS = cmapdump fontdump > BUILT_SOURCES = cmapdump fontdump > > With MSYS, noinst_PROGRAMS is set to > > cmapdump$(EXEEXT) fontdump$(EXEEXT) > > but BUILT_SOURCES is set to > > cmapdump fontdump > > Is

on Windows, BUILT_SOURCES does not append .exe

2010-11-21 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, I use: noinst_PROGRAMS = cmapdump fontdump BUILT_SOURCES = cmapdump fontdump With MSYS, noinst_PROGRAMS is set to cmapdump$(EXEEXT) fontdump$(EXEEXT) but BUILT_SOURCES is set to cmapdump fontdump Is it normal that BUILT_SOURCES does not try to see if they are binaries in some variabl

Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping (was: default -g ??!?)

2010-11-21 Thread MK
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:44:10 +0100 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Oh well. This thread has been so noisy and unproductive, maybe we > should seize the opportunity to take a bit of good away from it. > > Karl, what do you think about this rewording (against the gnulib copy > of make-stds.texi) that mak

reword documentation about symbol stripping (was: default -g ??!?)

2010-11-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding bug-standards; this thread is from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2010-11/msg00114.html ] * MK wrote on Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:47:48PM CET: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:07:31 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > > > > Indeed, it's often a good idea to do the research _before_ posting >

Re: default -g ??!?

2010-11-21 Thread MK
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:07:31 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > MK writes: > > If you say so, then I guess I am imagining things ;) I have never > > given the issue much thought until now, I suppose I need to do a bit > > more research on the issue. > > Indeed, it's often a good idea to do the research

Automake AM_COND_IF problem: libopts/Makefile.in split personality

2010-11-21 Thread Dave Hart
I've put together a stripped-down example of a problem currently beguiling Harlan Stenn and myself with Automake used in the NTP reference implementation: http://support.ntp.org/people/hart/am-libopts-subpkg.tar.gz The layout is: am-libopts-subpkg/ configure.ac Makefile.am top.c