Hello,
The mkinstalldirs script which ships with Autoconf and Automake leaves bogus
directories named "-p" and "--" in its wake on platforms (such as NextStep
and OpenStep) for which the `mkdir' command does not recognize any options.
Here is a patch which fixes this bug. The patch is base
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
Thank you. Automake is the master for this file. Given
Andrea's comment and yours about _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE, how about
the following instead?
+ test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p
+ test -d ./-- && rmdir ./--
+ # Clean up after NextStep and OpenStep mkdir.
+
Hello,
Here is a patch for Automake which ensures that generated makefiles also
clean up config.status.lineno at distclean time. (Makefiles already know how
to clean up configure.lineno, but neglect to remove its cousin.)
Eric
2003-01-07 Eric Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:28:29 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> I'm posting it here for comment. (In fact I'm mainly hoping
> that some kind fellow will point out English mistakes...)
It is well written.
> One of the output (here `data.c') is used as a witness of the run of
> `foo'.
Perhaps:
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
This suggests that shell running this code does not split
$list and $subdir get the full list. Zsh would do that.
Could you compare the output of
grep 'SHELL =' Makefile
on the working and non-working tarballs?
CVS Autoconf has a new SHELL selection code. That could
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:02:14 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > This suggests that shell running this code does not split $list
> > and $subdir get the full list. Zsh would do that. Could you
> > compare the output of grep 'SHELL =' Makefile
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:18:05 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] selects the new pax format defined by POSIX
> +1003.1-2001. It supports filenames with up to 65535 characters.
> +However this format is very young and should probably be avoided in
> +all packages that do not targ
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:08:54 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > Can you apply the following manual edit to the configure script
> > (not the configure.ac file) and report if it fixes the problem?
> > In con
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:45:00 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > I can submit a patch to autoconf-patches to make Autoconf's shell
> > selection more backward-compatible with earlier versions of Autoconf,
> > however thi
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:01:58 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> A suggestion was to always use `SHELL = /bin/sh' in Makefiles.
> I simply don't know how correct this is, because that's how it
> was in the past before Chris Provenzano changed it to what it is
> now. The reason for that change see
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