Re: excessive bounces

2004-05-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2004, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Face it, this is not 1994 anymore, the internet has lost its innocence, and badly maintained open lists like the auto*tools lists on gnu.org are a relict of the past. Unfortunately, SPAMmers quickly learn how to break through

Re: excessive bounces

2004-05-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
Ralf Corsepius wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 07:43, Bob Proulx wrote: Jay West wrote: You should have sent this to the list owner/admin, not the list. Lars Hecking wrote: Most likely, the same thing happens to OP that happens to me: the lists run at gnu.org are crawling with

Re: pathnames containing spaces

2004-01-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Scott James Remnant wrote: It should also be noted that Libtool suffers heavily from this problem also. The shell uses spaces as separators, which means Libtool isn't even able to install to a directory containing a space: dependency_libs=-L/mnt/Program Files/unix/lib -lfoo comes out as three

Re: pathnames containing spaces

2004-01-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
The usual response to this problem is _don't_use_path_names_with_spaces_. There are different ways to modify what you are doing that it is not worth modifying the autotools to handle the space in path name problem. For instance you could use the DOS 8.3 modified name which for ``Program

Re: pathnames containing spaces

2004-01-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
James Amundson wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 06:21, Earnie Boyd wrote: The usual response to this problem is _don't_use_path_names_with_spaces_. Heh heh. There are different ways to modify what you are doing that it is not worth modifying the autotools to handle the space in path name

Re: 'ccache gcc' as compiler with libtool

2003-11-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
So, you need to file name='~/bin/cg++' status=untested #! /bin/sh ccache g++ $@ /file Make sure ~/bin is in PATH and use cg++ to execute. Earnie. Vincent Caron wrote: Hello, I'm running automake 1.7.9 as packaged in Sid, and having trouble using 'cache gcc' as compiler. I get this error :

Re: Libs ordering in LDADD

2003-10-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jose Roman Bilbao wrote: Hi all, Why do I need a specific order when writing LDADD rules?. If I dont I get lots of Undefined references. Is this a bug?, If not... Which rule should I follow in order to write correct MAkefile.am files?. Objects that depend on other objects must precede the other

Re: un-subscribe

2003-09-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
You do it. Try the following URI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if that helps. If not try mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Earnie. daniel wrote: allo this is my 2nd email to un-subscribe from automake. do take action to stop mails from coming . ciao daniel. -- http://www.mingw.org

Re: Filenames containing blanks

2003-07-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Ralf == Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf Hi, Ralf Simple question: Does automake support filenames containing blanks? I guess nobody really bothered because Make itself uses blanks as filename separators. '\ ' seems to be a GNU extension, does anybody

Re: please confirm / bitte bestaetigen

2003-07-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
I've even submitted a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking that they trash all mail containing an attachment of your_details.zip. The bounce with fictitious From header is how this DoS virus spreads. The bounce either leaves the attachments in tact, or embodies them in the email. I'm sending

Re: nodist = CLEANFILES, no?

2003-06-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Akim Demaille wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:02:25PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: Why wouldn't nodist_ stuff be automatically included into CLEANFILES? I think it would make sense. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/bug-automake/2002/msg01693.html I would love this. The only issue is where

Re: automake flex's -P option

2003-03-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Thomas E. Dickey wrote: the autoconf maintainers do not appear to be interested in maintaining compatibility with lex/yacc (other than paying lip-service to the notion). Aren't you an autoconf maintainer? ;) Earnie.

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Philip Willoughby wrote: Today, Richard Dawe wrote: Unfortunately this is not portable to DOS. Oops - my bad. I should have tried it in MSYS I guess. I was modifying the installed code on linux rather than doing it properly... Would probably work in MSYS. You should try it in DJCPP

Re: Add support for generating HTML docs a` la PDF, etc.

2003-02-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bruce Korb wrote: Perhaps dump all the .texi-derived files into a subdirectory? WRT what program and options to use, you'll need two substitution variables. The texi2html output is just so much better than the makeinfo version that there must be a way to say, use that. Richard For consistency,

Re: A target_os conditionally applied -lfoo switch

2002-11-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bruce Korb wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: Am Mit, 2002-11-13 um 19.08 schrieb Earnie Boyd: I need to add a library specific to a target_os. I've tried several possible techniques and can't get cooperation from the tools. What I want is something similar to: target_os := @target_os@ ifeq

Re: Starting make in subdirectory rather than root

2002-11-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
As long as the sub-project didn't have dependencies on the other parts, your sound developer should be able to configure, cd Z and make. You could even create a configure.ac for Z that would just configure that portion. If Z does have dependencies on other parts then make sure they're

Re: error 'traces.m4' running automake-1.7

2002-11-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Try 1.7.1 Earnie Dave Benson wrote: hello... i'm trying to upgrade a project to use automake-1.7 and i'm getting the following error(s): /tmp/am4tf8PSRs/traces.m4:822: /usr/bin/m4: Error matching regular expression `^ *\(.*\) *$' Use of uninitialized value in split at

Re: A target_os conditionally applied -lfoo switch

2002-11-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
Ralf Corsepius wrote: Am Mit, 2002-11-13 um 19.08 schrieb Earnie Boyd: I need to add a library specific to a target_os. I've tried several possible techniques and can't get cooperation from the tools. What I want is something similar to: target_os := target_os ifeq ($(target_os),mingw32

Re: Linking in C++ mode

2002-11-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
John Levon wrote: We have a C program which links to a C++ library, and we need to tell automake to do the link in C++ mode to avoid undefined references to the C++ standard library. How can we do it ? The Makefile.am looks as follows : ---snip--- dist_sources = oprofiled.c opd_stats.c

Re: Linking in C++ mode

2002-11-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
John Levon wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 01:01:08PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You could always just add -lstdc++ to the oprofiled_LDADD variable. This would be a fault, IMO. Why? I do not think getting gcc to link -lstdc++ is a good idea either, but it doesn't have much more hack

Re: ccache and autotools

2002-11-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: Hi, I have a C++ project with a lot of source files (~4000). I'd like to use ccache to speed recompilation of the project. I can't since ccache doesn't support -MT flag to gcc What does EXACTLY this flags? Is it possible to tell autoconf/automake to not use -MT when

Re: weird flags set by configure

2002-11-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise, I'm also subscribed on the list, so no need to CC me in every post :-) It is a function of the mail client Reply-All event to add you in the distribution of the response. If you don't wish personal copies as well as list copies then it is upto you to set

Re: weird flags set by configure

2002-11-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Akim Demaille wrote: Bob == Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob If you want to change this you can set CXXFLAGS at configure Bob time. Bob CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O ./configure ./configure CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O is better. because it then becomes a part of config.status while

Re: cxx + cpp

2002-11-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Your question is better asked on [EMAIL PROTECTED] You've doubly defined your target, once at line 35275 and once at line 61202 in your Makefile. Remove one and the warnings will go away. Earnie. Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: Hi, I have a project that have cxx and cpp files in it. Then I have

Re: Library creation command

2002-10-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
Kevin Ryde wrote: Olaf Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't that be ARFLAGS, just as we have CFLAGS not C_FLAGS. That seems to be the canonical name. Libtool uses AR_FLAGS currently. Whichever is adopted it'd be nice for them to be the same. Then libtool is wrong. Based on the GNU

Re: Bootstrap script for CVS Automake

2002-09-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bruce Korb wrote: Pavel Roskin wrote: I won't object if this script is renamed to autogen.sh I will, tho. :-) I will too, unless you've used autogen to create it. Earnie.

Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files

2002-07-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Tom Tromey wrote: Ralf == Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf This works perfectly well unless the structure of the configured Ralf source-tree changes (adding/removing Makefile.ams) or if the Ralf source-tree contains conditionally configured sub-directories Ralf (eg.

Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files

2002-07-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Schleicher Ralph (LLI) wrote: Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Mit, 2002-07-03 um 09.44 schrieb Ionutz Borcoman: Or is there a simple command to do this (but keeping all the options I've give to configure) ? make Wrong answer. Read the question more carefully. To

Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case

2002-02-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Ralf Corsepius wrote: BTW, I would appreciate the other autoconf and automake maintainers to speak up, because apparently a reasonable discussion between Akim and me doesn't seem to be possible anymore. First let me say that IANAAM (I Am Not An Autoconf Maintainer) but I'm going to give my

Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case

2002-02-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bruce Korb wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: ... But let's stand back and look at what we have: 1) ... 2) ... 3) ... 4) ... 5) ... What we *really* have are more very good reasons to coordinate auto* tool releases. Even, perhaps, to the point of having coordinated tags in the CVS

Re: Portability of find(1)

2001-09-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Akim Demaille wrote: Hi People! I'm looking for information on the portability of find(1). Please, send me everything you know. In particular, I think I'm understanding that `{}' is portably replaced by the argument only when alone, i.e., exactly find ... {} ... and not

Re: Automake needs --localdir?

2000-09-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:18:59AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/. : : PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be

Re: Automake needs --localdir?

2000-09-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
directory/file gets created it's almost impossible to get rid of and is unusable. Cheers, = --- http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com --- Earnie Boyd: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: http://gw32.freeyellow.com/ __Mini

Re: [patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
g? There's more to cygwin than I though... We've just been building from C:/source to C:/build on NT... Lars, you need to join the Cygwin mailing list and look at the documentation both of which you can find at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. I can't believe your developing with Cygwin

Re: [patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:04:55AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- "Thomas E. Dickey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: : The following patch made the configure script work, but one should : p