Re: please confirm / bitte bestaetigen

2003-07-04 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Peter Simons' Anti-Spam-Tool wrote: - English - Because I receive several dozen spam messages each day, I installed a small tool that will defer incoming mail message if it comes from an address it sees for the first time. This is the case

Re: automake flex's -P option

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Akim Demaille wrote: I don't think this is the right track, since flex and bison now generate more that just one file. Relying on something like -o is saner, but stdout is a dead end. yacc clones generate two files, lex one - unless you're referring to some nonstandard

Re: automake flex's -P option

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Richard Dawe wrote: Hello. Akim Demaille wrote: [snip] I think a lot could be done to improve the interface provided that we require Bison and Flex. The problem here stems on the willingness to be yacc/lex portable. [snip] Out of interest: Is it a hard

Re: automake flex's -P option

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Earnie Boyd wrote: 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? ;) no - I maintain a stable patch

Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-19 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, John W. Eaton wrote: But now? Do we really have to worry about these old systems? If people enjoy the vintage hardware, then is it that bad if they can only use vintage software on it as well? To install modern software

Re: Autoconf 2.54c is relased

2002-11-04 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 4 Nov 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: - Why should I upgrade from 2.13? more topical: why should one upgrade from 2.50-2.53? those versions are no longer maintained; they are incompatible with this week's latest design creep. -- T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems executing ./configure on Solaris

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Lars Hecking wrote: Hi Lorrie, You are not talking to the right list. If you still think its a portability issue in ./configure, please trace this script with `sh -x ./configure --your-flags...' and send the output to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't believe there

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-15 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Tom Lord wrote: A de facto set of bootstrap packages already exist. autoconf was first built for those packages, and it was used to make them extraordinarilly portable (to all unixen, VMS, and several systems you've all but forgetten about). I've never seen the port to

Re: Autoconf 2.54 is released

2002-09-13 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 13 Sep 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: - Why should I upgrade from 2.53? Several bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with 2.53, forthcoming Automake 1.7 requires 2.54. you just added one yesterday. - Why should I upgrade from 2.13? This version is no longer

Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?

2002-07-25 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: mcmahill == mcmahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mcmahill Is there a way to turn off the inclusion of lex and mcmahill yacc generated output in the distfile? I've seen mcmahill some problems where yacc on one box generates code mcmahill

Re: turn off putting flex/bison output in distfile?

2002-07-25 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 25 Jul 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: Thomas == Thomas E Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas byacc is portable, and has the advantage (in contrast to Thomas bison) of being written in ANSI C. ... which is written in? bison relies on alloca, which is not standard. There are a few

Re: Two issues with automake

2002-04-22 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 22 Apr 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: | 1) I had a line like this in my configure.in: | test -f somefile.in AC_OUTPUT(somefile) Err, I suppose you mean AC_CONFIG_FILES. Two AC_OUTPUT is not supported by Autoconf. You ought to learn to phrase your sentences using accurate

Re: Auto-tools Win32 Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Axel Thimm wrote: [...] may be there are some hints whether people have already tried with borland compilers. Let's hope they are reading this list and will step forward to discuss it ;) sure - Borland C is much faster, and checks for errors that gcc doesn't bother to

Re: [PATCH] etags support

2000-12-22 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 21 Dec 2000, Tom Tromey wrote: "Derek" == Derek R Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: creche. etags --version etags (GNU Emacs 20.5) Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. and Ken Arnold This program is distributed under the same terms as Emacs It is pretty

Re: Help-regd. error while compiling automake1.4 on hpux11.00

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 17 Oct 2000, Akim Demaille wrote: | I am getting the foll. error message when I am trying to build | automake 1.4 on 11.00 hpux machine: You said it all: HPUX. Their Make is incredibly broken and is often responsible of build failures. I would *strongly* encourage you to install

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

2000-06-07 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: We had some problems with getting our Coin project compiled on Cygwin, which we traced back to some "^M"-characters that weren't removed from directory- and file-names when the dependeny tracking files were about to be created at the end of the