Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
secure media and then use the tools in it to look for the rootkit in the potentially-compromised system, *without* handing control over to it. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer

Re: Need a way to pass options to libtool

2004-05-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
x27;s also passed to non-libtool compilations? I've often wanted some means to pass additional flags to libtool compile and/or link commands without affecting non-libtool compile and/or link. My favorite example is -static, that has a somewhat different meaning when it comes to libtool.

Re: automake depcomp under more open license

2004-04-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
g' recently Sven> in automake ? > I think that is reasonable. I added it. > Alexandre, complain if you have a problem with it. A bit late, but... I don't have a problem with it :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMA

Re: [MAD SCIENCE EXPERIMENT]: Replace some libtool functionality with handcoded C

2003-12-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 9, 2003, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> the *_OBJECT definitions assume the absence of shell-active Alexandre> characters in filenames, which is probably a s

Re: [MAD SCIENCE EXPERIMENT]: Replace some libtool functionality with handcoded C

2003-12-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
option to generate such rules. It will need a lot of experimenting, and some polishing of the macro set that I posted above, but I believe you can realize most of the gains you intend to realize with it, and then you won't be introducing the need for running yet another program. Wanna give i

Re: PATCH: Use libgcj_convenience.la ( Re: libjava bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8)

2002-06-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
[CC:ing automake mailing list] On Jun 7, 2002, Hans-Peter Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Jun 2002, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> What -static doesn't mean to libtool is to reject any kind of dynamic >> linking. -all-static does that [...] > But -all-st

Re: override default CXXFLAGS

2001-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
C, the GNU Coding Standards suggest that programs should be built with debugging information, unless the user explicitly requests otherwise. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD

Re: Recursive make harmful

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 20, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> With separate Makefile.am's in each directory, Richard> automake should be able to figure the bar/foo out from Ric

Re: Feature suggestion

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
lso let us use the same mechanism for Java jar and zip files. Wow! Excellent idea! -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.o

Re: Patches in Gnats?

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I was thinking I could create a new `patch' category in the automake >>> Gnats and ask people to put such

Re: missing does not support configure.ac in CVS or in 1.4-p4

2001-06-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
thers to conclude missing is always run off top_srcdir (since the test for configure.ac is always done). I'd appreciate a comment before the test explaining why it is safe to do the test there even though missing isn't always guaranteed to run in the directory containing co

Re: Patches in Gnats?

2001-06-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
. Savannah.gnu.org has a nice patch tracking system (for those who like this kind of thing; not me :-); perhaps we could use it? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD stud

Re: AM_CFLAGS and sub/foo.c

2001-06-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
hich the order matters, and you need control over where $(LDADD) appears in foo_LDADD. I think the only way to do this right is to defer the decision to the user, which means not having it included by default. Which is a good thing in itself, because it lets one omit LDADD completely. -- A

Re: missing does not support configure.ac in CVS or in 1.4-p4

2001-06-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ly correct to assume that $PWD = $top_srcdir when running missing? The test in the patch assumes so, but I'm not sure this assumption holds for all uses of `missing'. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: interpolating automake variables?

2001-06-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, so that the user can override the setting of prefix, exec_prefix, etc, during `make'. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.un

Re: Recursive make harmful

2001-06-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the top-level Makefile, a rule that runs the corresponding rule in the sub-make. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free

Re: texinfo problem

2001-05-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ificant amount of time on slow platforms. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: texinfo problem

2001-05-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 29, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I've noticed that if you try to build a texi file that has an error >>> you get a warning from the `missing&

Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'

2001-05-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
gure-time tests that few people would use (I generally prefer to defer to `missing'), and then, we'd be running a shell-script anyway, and we wouldn't be able to cache results, unless we came up with some way for missing to cache results of tests. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana

Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'

2001-05-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 28, 2001, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 May 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> > Note that I'm writing of a performance. Install-sh is a serious >> > performance hit for non-trivial installs. >> >> How about

Re: texinfo problem

2001-05-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
e found in the PATH or not, and only report its warning if it finds the program is indeed missing. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.i

Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'

2001-05-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 26, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Note that I'm writing of a performance. Install-sh is a serious >>> performance hit for non-trivial instal

Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'

2001-05-25 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ll use things like AC_CHECK_TOOL, etc. > Note that I'm writing of a performance. Install-sh is a serious > performance hit for non-trivial installs. How about only use install-sh for install-strip on cross builds? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.

Re: Two new mailing lists

2001-05-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, or am I going to have to subscribe again? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Plea

Re: depcomp used but not installed

2001-05-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 17, 2001, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AM_DEPENDENCIES should be more quiet if it cannot find depcomp. I think this would be a good compromise. Assuming depmode=none would be fine, in this case. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.

Re: *_TEXINFOS

2001-05-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
7;t make much of a difference for maintainers anyway. Unless they wrote Makefile rules that depended on the fact that files were in the build tree, in which case they'd be in trouble. `make distcheck' would hopefully tell them so. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www

Re: *_TEXINFOS

2001-05-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
on > the build system, or something else? Yep. The idea is that the distribution should include the generated info files, so that random installers won't need texinfo to install the info documentation. They're placed in the source tree so that a maintainer set-up doesn't differ fr

Re: 2 questions on automake

2001-05-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
of a package, since they're sometimes modified to suit local needs. Removing them shouldn't be taken lightly. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unic

Re: PATCH: aclocal use ACPATH for include path ...???

2001-05-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
why not just set ACLOCAL: > export ACLOCAL='aclocal -I/path/to/my/stuff' > ? > Then configure ought to pick that up automatically for you. Or have ~/bin/aclocal run /path/to/aclocal -I/path/to/my/stuff ${1+"$@"} -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.

Re: Automake release

2001-05-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 6, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > `1.4.1' is an alpha release by our rules. I thought only releases ending in letters were alpha. There's always 1.4p1. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliv

Re: AC_CHECK_HEADER(S) search path

2001-05-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 3, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:33:49PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > : On May 3, 2001, Genty Jean-Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > I prefer not to put it in an environnement variable. > : >

Re: AC_CHECK_HEADER(S) search path

2001-05-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
nd I would like configure to detect if mylib > is not installed. For libraries, add -Ldirectory to LDFLAGS. > I prefer not to put it in an environnement variable. You're out of luck, then. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC De

Re: crosscompiled .exe (Re: crosscompiling dll linux->mingw32)

2001-05-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
directory. I like this idea. It's been in my to-do list for a while. Along the same lines, we should probably not even bother to create the wrapper script/program when cross compiling. I'm not sure we already do this. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.

Re: Fileutils 4.1: make install-strip broken

2001-05-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 1, 2001, Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably a bug in automake 1.4e. Yep. A patch to fix is has just gone in, IIRC. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.c

Re: symlinked files break "dist"-target

2001-05-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ymlinks would break `make dist'. What is the symptom? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evang

Re: option -MD

2001-05-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 2, 2001, François Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While using configure under sparc-sun-solaris2.6, it choose the option > -MD for cc but this one doesn't know about this option. Which version of automake? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://ww

Re: Rep:how to build a program with external sources ?

2001-04-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 27, 2001, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > test_md5_SOURCES = test_md5.c profile_md5.c > test_md5_LDADD = md5.o How about: test_md5_SOURCES = test_md5.c provfile_md5.c nodist_test_md5_SOURCES = md5.c # requires CVS automake md5.c: $(LN_S) /path/to/md5.c md5.c -

Re: crosscompiled .exe (Re: crosscompiling dll linux->mingw32)

2001-04-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
does indeed work. Huh? Even though it's a shell-script? This would be very good news. >> Who's to blame, libtool or automake? Libtool. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{c

Re: crosscompiling dll linux->mingw32

2001-04-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
n MS-Windows. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: PATCH: Fix dependency tracking

2001-04-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
e and set it to '@AMDEP_TRUE@' > and subst that into automake.in. Err... Would you mind posting a patch that affects only the files you've actually modified? It's hard to find your changes inside this huge patch with lots of unrelated changes. A ChangeLog entry would h

Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL

2001-04-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
lawyer could say is that it's risky to use it. That's why it's so important that the authors of the work clearly state the terms under which they intend their work to be used. Then, legal counsel might have something useful to say. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http

Re: Bug when specifying --disable-dependency-tracking (AM_DEP_TRACK)

2001-04-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
racking mechanism, so we'd end up with `no' if it doesn't exist. Yeah, that makes sense... -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the point of setting the defaults? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ly overriding the setting. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: target dependency bug

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
fore >> any other source files are compiled. > Which it does. Good. That's the sole purpose of BUILT_SOURCES. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-U

Re: target dependency bug

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
EXT) > depend on cf_gen_defines.h? Nope. I'm saying it would make sure BUILT_SOURCES are built before any other source files are compiled. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus

Re: target dependency bug

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ILT_SOURCES are global, not specific to some object file. > I'm testing this on my cygwin box with GNU make, automake CVS (as of > early week). Try current CVS. I think the fix for this bug was very, very recent. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.

Re: target dependency bug

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
gure it out?), but BUILT_SOURCES are supposed to be built before anything else. I believe this used to require GNU make in automake 1.4, and it was broken until a few days ago in CVS automake, but I seem to recall it is now fixed. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.uni

Re: target dependency bug

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
y encoded in the Makefile, except for BUILT_SOURCES, that automake takes care of building by itself. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@

Re: CVS autoconf + CVS automake = autoconf doesn't know its version

2001-04-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
> This is my proposal. Good idea. Please check it in, this is sufficiently obviously-correct to not require a second approval. Thanks! -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS

Re: include Makefile.extra

2001-04-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
f to expand the file into the generated Makefile. See AC_SUBST_FILE. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free

Re: CVS autoconf + CVS automake = autoconf doesn't know its version

2001-04-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 6, 2001, Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Apr 5, 2001, Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The problem is that 'automake' now depends on the AC_SUBSTs in >

Re: SGI mode depcomp breaks when '.' appears in source filenames twice

2001-04-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the original tried to avoid > '.'s. The regexp is limited to the first ':' -- so the '.*' cannot > swallow any more of the line. Perhaps `[^:]*', just to be on the safe side? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ R

Re: CVS autoconf + CVS automake = autoconf doesn't know its version

2001-04-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
#x27;s, it does not see the > actual definition of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (autoconf bypasses the 'aclocal' > mechanism). Here's a patch to autoconf to fix this. I'm afraid patching aclocal.m4 won't help much, since it's a generated file. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guaran

Re: Including foreign makefiles

2001-04-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 5, 2001, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, how do I unsubscribe? See the `List-Unsubscribe' header in every message you receive. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: make dist and sources in subdirs

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
(in case of name collisions. There's an automake option that tells it to keep object files in subdirs. I don't recall the exact spelling. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com

Re: Linking Problems

2001-04-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
s in sub-directories to be mentioned. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* wri

Re: Built header in different dir?

2001-03-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 30, 2001, Lars Hecking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or is it just as simple as > file.o: ../header.h > in subdir/Makefile.am? This should work. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: program target missing $(EXEEXT)

2001-03-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
) added to it at all. Perhaps the wrong target was being > used? Nope. automake can't tell in advance whether libtool will decide to link the executable in-place or create a wrapper script. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Develop

Re: `missing' needs patch for Ultrix4.4

2001-03-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
If it doesn't work with them, I think we're out of luck :-( -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: `missing' needs patch for Ultrix4.4

2001-03-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
: prog=$1 shift $prog ${1+"$@"} && exit 0 ? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: rpm spec bad

2001-03-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ut this problem in an RPM-specific forum. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: automake mistaken source type

2001-03-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
message will be highlighted in my mailing-list folder. Those who would rather not be Cc:ed should configure their mailers so as to add a header `Mail-Copies-To: never' to messages they post to mailing lists. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.uni

Re: ok, new libtool for cygwin updates

2001-03-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
; section. AFAIK, the current CVS version of libtool shouldn't depend on unreleased versions of automake or autoconf, even though they might. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com

Re: ok, new libtool for cygwin updates

2001-03-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 12, 2001, "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well as CVS libtool (the point of the exercise :]) depends on CVS > automake & CVS autoconf Does it? It shouldn't. Are you sure? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unic

Re: 13-single-var-storage.patch

2001-03-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 9, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should have built a independent automake.in to reconstruct a > cleaner patch, sorry. Ever heard of interdiff? http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/ftp/interdiff/stable/ -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://

Re: Why does "make distclean" rerun autoconf?

2001-03-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
nce the maintainer(s?) of GNU make to introduce an extension: some way to mark certain targets as not requiring a Makefile update. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD stud

Re: cross-install-strip summary

2001-03-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
> rarely-used target? > I don't. Maybe Alexandre does? I don't either. Let's go for it. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp

Re: yaccvpath.test

2001-03-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
1-second sleep should be ok on at least 50% of the cases. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Ev

Re: Manual additions (DOS issues)

2001-02-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 20, 2001, "Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +case "$foo_dir" in > + [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]) # Absolute ^ missing a `*' here, I suppose -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red

Re: Making a single library from multiple source directories

2001-02-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
> Can libtool handle such a situation? It's supposed to, yes. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free So

Re: $ in source file names

2001-02-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
> I would suggest that it isn't an important requirement for Libtool. I disagree. libtool can be used independently from automake. And, in fact, until libtool supports correctly file names containing `$' and line-feeds, I won't be convinced we do the right thing regarding singl

Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

2001-02-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
on of ``aliases to sets of objects'', should just work. It's just that they are not currently installable. I wish they were. And I wish convenience libraries could still come in PIC and non-PIC versions, just like object files. Currently, every time you create a convenience archive, you don&#

Re: automake 1.4d

2001-02-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 15, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftp://tromey:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//gd/gnu/lib/config.guess > ftp://tromey:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//gd/gnu/lib/config.sub These are available for anonymous ftp at ftp.gnu.org/pub/config. Maybe so should the others? -- Alexandre O

Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

2001-02-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
lo -L../../lib -lShapeUtils > But how do I achieve that? Create ShapeUtils as a libtool convenience library. If you also want it to be installed as a separate shared library, you can create such a separate shared library, naming the convenience library differently. Ditto for MiscContrib.

Re: AM_CFLAGS

2001-02-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
fdef([m4_pattern_allow],[m4_pattern_allow([AM_CFLAGS])]) will let you refer to AM_CFLAGS in configure.in without introducing any dependency on CVS autoconf. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redha

Re: AM_CFLAGS

2001-02-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
reversed :-( I suppose automake should remove AM_CFLAGS et al from autoconf's blacklist, then. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{l

Re: AM_CFLAGS

2001-02-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
se are for *users* to override, not for configure.in to override. It's good that aclocal and autoconf won't let you do it easily. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.c

Re: AM_CFLAGS

2001-02-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
generally listed in configure.in. What am I missing? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelis

Re: Small autoreconf patch (was Re: Patch 3 of 4: Avoid 8+3 filename trouble)

2001-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
he one that choose stamp file names like those created by automake. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Sof

Re: AM_CFLAGS

2001-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
e? Their names look fine to me. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: Patch 3 of 4: Avoid 8+3 filename trouble

2001-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 10, 2001, "Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * remake-hdr.am (@STAMP@): Use .T as suffix for the > temporary file. You should probably patch autoconf's autoreconf too. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.

Re: Conditonnal

2001-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
other targets, parallel builds may lose. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

Re: libtool problem with linking .a's

2001-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
such > architectures the .o files must be specially built (eg with PIC). Right. Libtool can only build libtool libraries from libtool objects and other libtool libraries. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: autoconf bug?

2001-02-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 9, 2001, Tomas Berndtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The autoconf online manual says bugs should go to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], but that seems like a pretty old and > possibly outdated address (no @gnu.org address). Is there a better > one? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexa

Re: autoconf bug?

2001-02-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 9, 2001, Tomas Berndtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see why I need that, but I tried, and it still didn't > work. In this case, you may have found a bug in autoconf. The automake mailing list is certainly not the best place to report an autoconf bug :-

Re: Conditonnal

2001-02-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 8, 2001, "Florent. Devin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I make a Makefile based on automake to be conditionnal > at make time and not at configure time. Basically, you can't. This just can't be done with portable Makefile rules, in general. --

Re: Allow per-object cflags?

2001-02-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 9, 2001, Emil Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > prog1_SOURCES = prog.c > prog1_CFLAGS = -DPROG_NAME=\"prog1\" > prog2_SOURCES = prog.c > prog2_CFLAGS = -DPROG_NAME=\"prog2\" This should work with CVS automake. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana

Re: autoconf bug?

2001-02-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
without dlopen, sorry.])])) You're missing quotes around [AC_CHECK_LIB(......)] -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gn

Re: AM_INCLUDE is a bad name.

2001-02-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
use its new features. AC_VERSION_CASE would be a good thing in this case. Ditto for libtool. And for any other tool that wants to impose as little as possible onto its users. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{c

Re: autotools + MSVC

2001-02-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
or `automake -i') require GNU make and GCC. CVS automake's don't. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.or

Re: 31-ac-libsources.patch & Re: amtraces

2001-02-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 5, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): New test. > * acfunctions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, _AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Use > AC_LIBSOURCES. Ok -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicam

Re: AM_INCLUDE is a bad name.

2001-02-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
-target-name'? (note the leading underscore) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*

Re: AM_INCLUDE is a bad name.

2001-02-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 6, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't go that way! AC_PREREQ. It won't let you define fallbacks for older releases, which is exactly the point. ifdef, as you proposed, is the way to go. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.i

Re: Uppercasing files

2001-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
7; be? Well... I suppose you could do something about it if you were willing to get your Makefiles non-portable and use GNU make only, by using $(shell ) magic. Or you could write a script to generate the rules and get them included in the Makefile with AC_SUBST_FILE or automake's include fe

Re: maintainer-check

2001-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 31, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you fix these? I guess this was an implicit Ok for his 16-maintainer-fixes.patch :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.c

Re: Linking with installed libtool-constructed library

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Steve Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a patch for "automake" in the CVS libtool README. > Apart from that, are there any things I need to look out for, > if I mix CVS libtool with the released automake and autoconf? Not AFAIK. -- Alexan

Re: Linking with installed libtool-constructed library

2001-01-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
this happen? Use a CVS version of libtool and it will do The Right Thing (TM). Except at `configure' time, because AC_CHECK_LIB doesn't use libtool. Perhaps it should? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer a

Re: CVS libtool 1.4a fails to install

2001-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
27;t set ${MAKE}. This would probably get us rid of the problem without losing any functionality, since it's unlikely that a MAKE that doesn't set MAKE sets MAKEFLAGS. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{c

Re: stamp files

2001-01-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ts a newer timestamp than stamp-h3. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicampoliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist*Please* write to mailing lists, not to me

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