Re: Automake, Autoconf and POSIX shells (was: Re: GraphicsMagick Automake TAP)

2012-08-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Under Solaris 10, I found that some fancy ksh-style syntax was failing due to use of /bin/sh. You mean in your test scripts, or in the Automake-provided driver scripts? The latter would be an Automake bug, while the former would be a user error: if

Automake, Autoconf and POSIX shells (was: Re: GraphicsMagick Automake TAP)

2012-08-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[Adding the Automake and Autoconf list, as this might be of public interest] On 08/19/2012 05:48 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Something I notice is that Automake's configure.ac contains an > elaborate testing of shells resulting in a AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL > definition which is used for the Bourne s

not running a make rule if distcheck is called

2012-08-19 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey First, what follows is specific to a library that will be compiled only on Windows. Because of libtool, I have to remove .la files when installing this library. I use: install-data-hook: rm -f $(libdir)/libevil.la $(libdir)/libdl.la but when I call the distcheck rule, the uninstall