stamph processing fix

2001-07-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Hi! Akim told me awhile back to port forward and resubmit some patches if I noticed that they hadn't been accepted after some time had passed. Anyway, it's been awhile, so here's a resubmission of the patch that fixes the stamp-h? processing which configure is currently doing. Basically, the

Re: depcomp problem [Fwd: Trying to compile latest CVS on old SCO unixware 2]

2001-06-18 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Cameron wrote: It's getting a bit weird now, Making all in lib source='argmatch.c' object='argmatch.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/argmatch.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/argmatch.TPo' \ depmode=none /bin/sh ../depcomp \ ../compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

depcomp problem [Fwd: Trying to compile latest CVS on old SCO unixware 2]

2001-06-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Sounds like this could be fixed in depcomp? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CollabNet ( http://collab.net ) -- Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes! Hi, I'm Trying to update an old SCO

Re: aclocal doesn't check AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS (VERSION)

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: Tom == Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom We're planning to get rid of aclocal in the future. I forget Tom exactly what form that plan takes. Akim knows. First of all, the responsibility will move to Autoconf, aclocal has nothing to do with Automake. The

Re: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR now required when mdate-sh resides in subdir?

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Jim Meyering wrote: Hi Derek, Recently, automake changed so that I get the following in fileutils-4.1, even though I've put a copy of mdate-sh (though not in the official tarball) in doc/. $ automake --gnits --include-deps doc/Makefile.am:2: required file `./mdate-sh' not found I

Re: possible bug with depcomp

2001-04-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Robert" == Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert The project I'm converting to automake uses Robert AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(cfgaux). The dependency cehcking code was Robert looking for depend in the srcdir, not the srcdir/cfgaux. I'm Robert using a cvs version

Re: Default postscript cleans miss *.cps *.fns.

2001-04-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Tom" == Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akim elsif (/^\@(syncode|print)index \w+ (\w*)/) { push Akim @clean_suffixes, "$1s"; Tom Shouldn't that be "$2s" here? Yes, definitely. Thanks! Neither one worked. I

Re: Default postscript cleans miss *.cps *.fns.

2001-04-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: elsif (/^\@syncodeindex \w+ (\w*)/ || /^\@printindex (\w+)/) { push @clean_suffixes, "$1s"; } Yep. That works. IIRC, you also had problems with fns. What does a `grep fn *texi*' gives? Not much obviously useful, but you

Re: overriding tested automake aclocal in test suite

2001-04-10 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Is there some reason the automake test suite doesn't allow the Derek user to override its AUTOMAKE ACLOCAL variables? I like to Derek do it on ocassion to compare the current behavior against my Derek

Re: overriding tested automake aclocal in test suite

2001-04-10 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Is there some reason the automake test suite doesn't allow the Derek user to override its AUTOMAKE ACLOCAL variables? Thanks for the patch. I wrote a ChangeLog entry for you. Could you write it next

depcomp bug (was [Fwd: CVS update: ccvs])

2001-04-05 Thread Derek R. Price
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CollabNet ( http://collab.net ) -- Boy: A noise with dirt on it Derek R. Price writes: * depcomp: Don't count on $? being set in then or else clauses. What system is this happening on? depcomp is part of the Automake distribution. Boy, that was fast! I

Re: Default postscript cleans miss *.cps *.fns.

2001-03-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: | Akim Demaille wrote: | | Could you `grep indexcode' your texi sources? Thanks! | | [dprice@empress doc]$ fgrep indexcode cvs.texinfo | [dprice@empress doc]$ Actually I meant _all_ your sources. And in fact, @include would be useful too. Sorry for the

Re: FYI: On the way to -w

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What remains in order to enable `use strict'? [. . .] $require_file_found{'depcomp'} = 1 if -f "$depcomp_dir/depcomp"; it is because of this guy. It should not be used directly here, but to fix this properly, I have

Default postscript cleans miss *.cps *.fns.

2001-03-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Building postscript docs from *.texi sources using the default automake targets, the dev version of CVS produces cvs.cps cvs.fns files as side effects. These files aren't removed by 'make clean' and thus break a distcheck. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect (

Re: Default postscript cleans miss *.cps *.fns.

2001-03-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: hi Derek, Hi. :) Could you `grep indexcode' your texi sources? Thanks! [dprice@empress doc]$ fgrep indexcode cvs.texinfo [dprice@empress doc]$ Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yaccvpath.test

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Feb 28, 2001, "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CVS uses a single second sleep to guarentee timestamps change cross-platform IIRC, FAT filesystems can only store even second numbers. So, in order to be 100% safe, you'd need to sleep for

Re: Current problems

2001-02-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: # Now do all the work on each file. foreach my $am_file (@input_files) { if (! -f ($am_file . '.am')) { am_error ("\`" . $am_file . ".am' does not exist"); } else { generate_makefile ($output_files{$am_file}, $am_file); } }

Re: Current problems

2001-02-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only a global is going to be seen within a separate function... Right, but `my' at the top level is a global. The problem was really related to the specific semantics of foreach. Huh. You're right. I didn't b

Re: yaccvpath.test

2001-02-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Pavel Roskin wrote: Some unices (including GNU/Linux) are not very precise with respect to the timestamps. It's likely that parse.c and the new parse.y are created in the same second, so parse.c will appear to be up-to-date. Adding "sleep 3" (I have no idea what would be a minimal safe

Re: subdirs.am and $(RECURSIVE_TARGETS)

2001-02-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Akim" == akim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akim I wonder why we have a hard coded list list this in subdirs.am: Akim [ ... -recursive targets ... ] Historical reasons only, ie, I never thought of it. Akim Not only to I find this more pleasant, but most importantly it's

Re: 57-my-last-mying-changes.patch

2001-02-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Akim" == Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akim Six, six for them! (I'm not counting those for file handles, Akim which perl refuses as my, not sure to understand why). The way file handles work is another reason to dislike Perl. At least, I've always found them

Re: PATCH: patsubst support

2001-02-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: if FOO var = a b endif derived = $(var:%=%.c) if BAR var = c d endif Isn't the order irrelevant here since derived won't be evaluated until it's used? Um, the gmake manual calls this "expanded when read, except for the shell commands in

tests graceful tool dependencies

2001-02-22 Thread Derek R. Price
From tests/defs: # User can set which tools from Autoconf to use. test -z "$AUTOCONF" AUTOCONF=autoconf if ($AUTOCONF --version) /dev/null 21; then has_autoconf=: needs_autoconf=: else has_autoconf=false needs_autoconf='exit 77' fi What's

Re: tests graceful tool dependencies

2001-02-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: AUTOCONF='exit 77 ' Excuse me: AUTOCONF='exit 77 dummy' to keep the parser eternally happy. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com

Re: tests graceful tool dependencies

2001-02-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: "Derek R. Price" wrote: AUTOCONF='exit 77 ' Excuse me: AUTOCONF='exit 77 dummy' to keep the parser eternally happy. Or almost eternally happy. Due to some wierdness where my Bash only evaluates a variable as a single co

Re: tests graceful tool dependencies

2001-02-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: test='eval exit 77 dummy' Whoops. Excuse me. That works in every case except ($test). The subshell created by parens breaks things. I guess that isn't all that robust. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://C

Re: Testsuite fails

2001-02-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We probably need a special macro, e.g. AC_REQUIRE_FILE, so that the macros will be able to indicate what files they need. This is what Derek and I are working on :) But I doubt 2.50 will be the good starting point, 2.51 will.

Redundant PACKAGE VERSION set in test suite?

2001-02-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Is there a good reason that the following constructs occasionally appear in 'configure.in's as created by the test suite? AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(nonesuch, nonesuch) PACKAGE=nonesuch VERSION=nonesuch Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org )

Re: Optimizing Makefiles

2001-02-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: What is the general policy wrt `optimizations' in automake vs leaving some job to make? For instance there are many places with code like: if ($relative_dir eq '.') { push (@files, 'acconfig.h'); }

Re: Small autoreconf patch

2001-02-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Tim Van Holder wrote: * remake-hdr.am (@STAMP@): Use .T as suffix for the temporary file. You should probably patch autoconf's autoreconf too. What part would need patching? The one that choose stamp file names like those created by automake. Right - I hadn't noticed

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

2001-02-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Tim" == Tim Van Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim 2001-02-10 Tim Van Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim* remake-hdr.am (@STAMP@): Use .T as suffix for the Timtemporary file. I don't think this is sufficient. I think you also have to change AM_CONFIG_HEADER as

AC_CANONICAL_* *_triplet

2001-02-09 Thread Derek R. Price
Is there a good reason that Automake renames the three variables set by AC_CANONICAL_* ('build', 'host', 'target') to 'build_triplet', 'host_triplet', 'target_triplet'? Because using the current traces design, 'build', 'host', 'target' would be substituted automatically, allowing

removing $seen_canonical

2001-02-09 Thread Derek R. Price
I've removed the references to $seen_canonical, re one of the FIXME comments on the way to enabling traces. I know this patch is kinda largish, but even if it doesn't get checked in yet, I'd like some feedback. This is somewhat integral to my work on traces. Derek -- Derek Price

Re: DIST_COMMON broke

2001-02-07 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: "Derek R. Price" wrote: Looks like someone broke the 'make dist' target in the last few days. Specifically, input files from AC_OUTPUT are no longer being added to DIST_COMMON... Here's the patch. This doesn't appear to be the correct fix.

Re: DIST_COMMON broke

2001-02-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: Anyway I wrote a test for the weird case and checked it in. I also checked in a fix for both the recent bugs in that area. I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure why my fix fixes distcommon.test :-(. Checked in? Fixes? I'm not pulling any changes... Derek -- Derek Price

Re: DIST_COMMON broke

2001-02-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm checking this in. Pavel I'm sorry, but the bug seems to be yours. The new test fails Pavel after automake.in changes from revision 1.848 to 1.849. Oh, I know it is mine.. Pavel In fact it says directly: "Don't

Re: DIST_COMMON broke

2001-02-07 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Tom Tromey wrote: Derek Checked in? Fixes? I'm not pulling any changes... I can't explain that. I've seen the commit message and everything. You aren't using the subversions automake are you? That is a mirror that doesn't update. Yeah, I

Re: tests/ChangeLog

2001-02-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Pavel Roskin wrote: On 7 Feb 2001, Tom Tromey wrote: I've long considered it a mistake that tests/ChangeLog exists. I think it should be merged with the main ChangeLog. How about I rename tests/ChangeLog and we start putting entries into the toplevel ChangeLog? Any objections? No

Re: DIST_COMMON broke

2001-02-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Also, looking at this area of the code reminds me that I sent Derek a, unfortunately largish, patch in something over a month ago Derek that hasn't been reviewed to my knowledge. The patch was Dere

Re: DIST_COMMON broke

2001-02-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Also, looking at this area of the code reminds me that I sent Derek a, unfortunately largish, patch in something over a month ago Derek that hasn't been reviewed to my knowledge. The patch was Dere

AM_CONFIG_HEADER stamp-h files edition 3

2001-02-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Inspired by Akim Demaille's use of ifdef, I wrote a third edition of this patch which increases functionality when used with a current Autoconf. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue (

Re: AM_CONFIG_HEADER stamp-h files edition 3

2001-02-06 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Inspired by Akim Demaille's use of ifdef, I wrote a third edition of this patch which increases functionality when used with a current Autoconf. I just wanted to let you all know that. ... Ok, fine, here's the patch. :) Derek -- D

Bug + patch

2001-02-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Somebody checked in a bad quote recently. It breaks at least the stamph/header targets. Patch attached. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- 82. Hold a hard drive to your

Re: amtraces

2001-02-04 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All these comments are related to the same idea: Automake must know as less as possible about macros. It means that if needed, we have to ~/src/ace % echo "AC_INIT AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM" | ace -t AC

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

2001-02-04 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: FYI, I applied this to Autoconf: 2001-02-03 Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_ONSTACK): Use AC_LIBSOURCES. 2001-02-03 Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] * acgeneral.m4 (AC_LIBOBJ_DECL): Remove.

Re: amtraces

2001-02-02 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:17:13PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Akim Demaille wrote: "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patch against the current CVS Automake attached. Please excuse all the "print STDERR"s and my initials

Re: amtraces

2001-02-02 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:17:13PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Akim Demaille wrote: that I certainly would like to toy with your implementation, I'd vote for an inclusion in Automake. Do you have your papers? :) No, ac

patch: stamp-h? files in subdirs

2001-01-31 Thread Derek R. Price
stamp-h? files in subdirs are still being created in the wrong locations by an automake configure script. The problem was in AM_CONFIG_HEADERS. I fixed it, but is dependent on the autoconf beta. Patch attached. I was thinking of attempting to eliminate the need for the recreation of stamp-h?

amtraces functionality

2001-01-31 Thread Derek R. Price
The amtraces functionality for AC_CONFIG_FILES is totally broken. Anyone mind if I spend a few minutes on it? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- I don't suffer from stress.

Re: patch: stamp-h? files in subdirs

2001-01-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Tim Van Holder wrote: (_AM_DIRNAME): helper function which basically implements an sh `dirname` in m4 Only have 1 problem with it: no support for DOS-style paths (and this is conveniently not tested in your dirname.test either :-P). Yeah, sorry. I noticed that, but I

stamp files

2001-01-26 Thread Derek R. Price
Why do automake stamp targets go through all the trouble of creating a temporary stamp file before executing config.status and then moving the stamp file into the correct position? thirdfile.h: stamp-h3 @if test ! -f $@; then \ rm -f stamp-h3; \

Re: More an autopackage

2001-01-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Harlan Stenn wrote: Are there several issues here? The package maintainer has the package to worry about. Aha! Here's the crossed wire. What I was envisioning was a package tool designed such that most platforms wouldn't _need_ devoted package maintainers. A single package maintainer using

Re: More an autopackage

2001-01-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: Unfortunately, I don't think it is that easy. First, Makefile.am contents can be conditional on the particular configuration. That is why you really want to deal with the post-configuration package (using `make') and not Makefile.am. Second, the more complex

Another problem with BSD Make

2001-01-16 Thread Derek R. Price
It seems some BSD makes don't look through VPATH for targets either (i.e. when they're not found in $(builddir) make assumes they are missing and rebuilds). Mostly this isn't a problem, but there are a few cases where it is. For example, info targets are rebuilt every time and I can't create a

Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.)

2001-01-16 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: The idea behind DOCUMENTATION is to provide a way to install README and the other stuff that ends up (eg) in /usr/doc/$PACKAGE. Just a note, I believe the RedHat standard is /usr/share/doc now. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect (

[PATCH] Another BSD make incompatibility

2001-01-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Found another bug in automake's support for dependencies using BSD's make. This one is based on the fact that BSD make doesn't allow comments to continue on the next line using '\'. I just hooked into the existing conditional machinery instead of stuffing "\@AMDEP\@" as the first item in the

[Fwd: Ultrix problem]

2000-12-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Whoops. Missed a list. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- He who laughs last thinks slowest. Harlan Stenn wrote: /bin/sh: BA: not found WARNING: `:' is needed,

Re: [Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-12-26 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: I wouldn't be averse to adding a `pdf' target so that `make pdf' works as expected. Someone else would have to write it though since I don't know how. It should be the exact target used for DVI except for the addition of a '--pdf' switch to the texi2dvi command line. I'm

Re: distributing files generated by configure

2000-12-26 Thread Derek R. Price
Raja R Harinath wrote: BTW, why do you need to 'configure' or 'sed' substitute a version number into a .c file -- you already have config.h which defines the symbol 'VERSION' to the version number string. That's a good point. They're there because I just converted this source to use

Re: distributing files generated by configure

2000-12-26 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Raja R Harinath wrote: BTW, why do you need to 'configure' or 'sed' substitute a version number into a .c file -- you already have config.h which defines the symbol 'VERSION' to the version number string. That's a good point. They're there beca

Re: BSD make and dependencies

2000-12-26 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote:Derek Apparently BSD wants something like the following: Derek .include "file" Derek or Derek .include file Yuck. Does make have -I options too? Don't know. I didn't actually have a BSD box until last week and I haven't touched it over the last few days. I'll

Re: [PATCH] etags support

2000-12-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. I'm running RH 6.2 and /usr/bin/etags is the GNU version: I just looked into it and it looks like etags was distributed with the version of emacs (20.5) that was distributed with RedHat 6.2. They've remov

distclean-generic bug

2000-12-22 Thread Derek R. Price
The distclean-generic target is removing the following files: stamp-h stamp-h[0-9]* The listing of 'stamp-h[0-9]*' causes 'stamp-h[0-9].in' files to be removed incorrectly. And incidentally, it would be unecessary to list stamp-h if you applied the stamp-h fix I sent to the list sometime

distributing files generated by configure

2000-12-22 Thread Derek R. Price
I have several files which are generated by configure that I want three things to happen to. 1) Created in $(srcdir) rather than $(builddir) or, alternately and second best, targets added which make the $(srcdir) counterparts dependent on the $(builddir) versions. I don't like option 2 because

BSD make and dependencies

2000-12-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Is there any support in Automake for BSD make's style of includes? Apparently BSD wants something like the following: .include file or .include file Where and have similiar meanings to what they would have in a C program include. Derek -- Derek Price CVS

Re: ./configure .deps directory

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek Is there a good reason the configure script creates Derek $(top_builddir)/.deps during the test that sets $DEPDIR and Derek doesn't delete it again? Besides some developer or other Derek needing sleep?

vtexi.test failing

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
vtexi.test is failing in the CVS automake. I assume it broke due to the recent vtexi behavior change. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- [Let us] go on in doing with [the]

New version of RPMs

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
I added the etags support to my RPMs: http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~oberon/automake-1.4a-0_CVSHome_org_5.src.rpm http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~oberon/automake-1.4a-0_CVSHome_org_5.src.rpm Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL

Re: vtexi.test failing

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: vtexi.test is failing in the CVS automake. I assume it broke due to the recent vtexi behavior change. I just looked and I was right. The fix was simple - the test simply wasn't expecting the $(srcdir)/ prefix on version.texi. Derek -- D

Re: [PATCH] etags support

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Raja R Harinath wrote: I added a macro to test for the presence of etags and whether it supports "--etags-include=file" or "-i file" for includes. If Exuberent etags is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Emacs etags, it should support the same options. Otherwise, it is a bug in

Re: New version of RPMs

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: "Derek R. Price" wrote: I added the etags support to my RPMs: I regenerated them again using todays version of the CVS Automake since the failing vtexi.test wasn't a bug. And one more try. etags.m4 wasn't being installed re my recent email. Re

Re: BOUNCE pdftex@tug.org: Non-member submission from [Derek R. Price derek.price@openavenue.com]

2000-12-20 Thread Derek R. Price
Raja R Harinath wrote: directory from the same source files, this would disable either the building of PDFs or it would disable everything else. Actually, new versions of texinfo.tex from ftp.gnu.org seem to not need a special pdftexinfo.tex. Yep. That seems to have done the trick as

Re: BOUNCE pdftex@tug.org: Non-member submission from [Derek R. Price derek.price@openavenue.com]

2000-12-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming I have a texinfo.tex a pdftexinfo.tex, both in '.', is there some command that will allow 'texi2dvi foo.texi' and 'texi2dvi --pdf foo.texi' to each find the appropriate texinfo.tex? surely the simpler answer is to put

[PATCH] m4/header.m4 bug

2000-12-15 Thread Derek R. Price
There was a bug in m4/header.m4 (AM_CONFIG_HEADER) which was causing configure config.status to create a $(top_builddir)/stamp-h file for every header file instead of the $(top_builddir)/$(subdir)/stamp-h$index file it was supposed to create. Basically, a few shell metachars which were supposed

Re: depcomp fix rpm'd

2000-12-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- He who laughs last thinks slowest. "Derek R. Price" wrote: I built RPMs out of the CVS automake and with my fix for the depcomp behavior. I figured I'd post them in case anybody

[PATCH] Re: [PATCH] m4/header.m4 bug

2000-12-15 Thread Derek R. Price
the Constitution called them to the decision by suffrage, they pronounced their verdict, honorable to those who had served them and consolatory to the friend of man who believes he may be intrusted with his own affairs. - Thomas Jefferson; 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805 "Derek R.

Re: bug: depcomp misplaced

2000-12-06 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: 2) In the case of $config_aux_dir, I removed all the switches on '.' and '' and replaced three with a switch on a new variable $config_aux_dir_set_in_configure_in (yeah, I know that's a little long, but it sure is easy to interpret) which is

bug: depcomp misplaced

2000-12-04 Thread Derek R. Price
The CVS automake, using --add-missing and not using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, is placing depcomp in whatever directory it first encounters C files in then looking for it during configure in $(top_srcdir). The problem appears to start on line 3054 of automake.in (in the handle_dependencies function):

Re: bug: depcomp misplaced

2000-12-04 Thread Derek R. Price
) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- 82. Hold a hard drive to your ear -- listen to the C. Raja R Harinath wrote: "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem appears to start on line 3054 of automake.in (in the handle_dependencie

defining recursive targets

2000-11-15 Thread Derek R. Price
is there some easy (i.e. not involving hacking) way to define a new recursive target? e.g.: RECURSIVE_TARGETS = remotecheck which would shove remotecheck-recursive into the list with generated targets all-recursive, check-recursive, install-recursive, etc. and add a remotecheck

[Fwd: --add-missing]

2000-11-14 Thread Derek R. Price
( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. - Robert Firth Hi, "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre Oliva wrote:

Default clean files

2000-11-13 Thread Derek R. Price
I'm in the middle of an attempt to convert CVS to use automake but I'm having some trouble. Is there some way to selectively override clean targets created by default for info targets without having to specify the entire clean target manually? I specified info_TEXINFOS = cvs.texinfo

--add-missing

2000-11-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake --add-missing uses the "proper" texinfo.tex file (i.e. the one installed with the texinfo package and assumedly the most recent one)? Derek -- Derek Price

Re: texinfo.tex

2000-11-13 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Why does AM require that texinfo.tex be included in the distribution in the first place? It is installed with tex distributions by default anyhow, isn't it? Its presence screws up my PDF target, which needs to Okay, I found the no-texinfo.tex option

Re: Targets using automake

2000-11-03 Thread Derek R. Price
... - Bart Simpson on chalkboard, _The Simpsons_ "Derek R. Price" wrote: Automake seems to be creating targets by default that make use of automake whether or not the user has automake installed. Timestamps seem to get fouled up in distribution often enough that I think this is

Re: Targets using automake

2000-11-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Derek This could be a very useful tool but without this feature I Derek cannot use it in good conscience. What's wrong with the `missing' approach? What version of Automake are you using? I'm using CV

Re: Targets using automake

2000-11-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Paul Berrevoets wrote: This should already be taken care of by the macro AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. If you use: ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode then the autoconf/automake targets are enabled. They should be disabled by default. Doesn't it make more sense to enable/disable the targets based

Re: Targets using automake

2000-11-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: What's wrong with the `missing' approach? What version of Automake are you using? I'm using CVS Automake for my package, and never found such problem. Oh, Version 1.4. And what's 'CVS Automake' as opposed to automake? Derek -- Derek Price CVS

Re: Targets using automake

2000-11-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Akim Demaille wrote: What's wrong with the `missing' approach? I ran automake the first time without the '--add-missing' argument so when it told me it wouldn't run because "AUTHORS" and "missing" weren't present I simply touched the files in expectation of figuring out what GNU wanted of me

*-local targets

2000-11-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Is there some reason that *-local targets aren't always valid when their parent exists? I wanted to define distclean-hdr-local to remove options.h-SAVED as well as options.h, but I can't seem to get it to work. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect (