Re: trying to install docs that are distributed with my package...

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ed Hartnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want is to build the documentation on the developer's machine, include it in the distribution, and then install it. The documents are all texinfo documents, and we cannot require that every user machine have texinfo and tex installed. It

Re: Noobie question about doing src dirs

2006-05-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas Phillipson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have: Makefile.am: SUBDIRS = srcbin_PROGRAMS = hello Those two should not be on the same line :-) It's creating the Makefile.in in the src dir, but not the top level dir. What Am I doing wrong? Everything else looks good! -

Re: How do I make a -config script?

2006-05-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Christopher Sean Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks. Just a fleeting thought, such scripts are becoming a more and more common convention and their entire purpose is to interface with autoconf-substituted variables... maybe the time is coming where this should be standardized?

How do I make a -config script?

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
A lot of packages (libxml2, APR, gnome, etc) come with these -config scripts that give you information like includes, libraries, etc... is there some autoconf/automake/other magic i can use to automatically generate one of these for my distribution? Thanks, Tyler

Re: Noobie question about doing src dirs

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas Phillipson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SUBDIRS = src My top level configure.in: AC_INIT(src/hello.c) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello,1.1) AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/Makefile) What else needs to go in src? and What should it contain? You do need a

Re: How do I make a -config script?

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scripts that give you information like includes, libraries, etc... is there some autoconf/automake/other magic i can use to automatically generate one of these for my distribution? Nope. Such *-config scripts are ordinary, manually written

Re: dynamic dist?

2006-04-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this portable (enough)? I'm thinking of turning it into a general automake macro so you can just do something like: dist_MANIFESTS = foo/MANIFEST bar/MANIFEST Hmm. First, I think you can just drop the -e s,\s.*$$,, part; it serves no

Invoking Build.PL/Makefile.PL from automake?

2006-04-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm working on moving a project over to automake/libtool right now. There's perl modules in some subdirectories with their own Makefile.PL's. Is there already some m4 macros around that will let me build perl modules from automake? Or any other projects doing the same thing I

Re: Invoking Build.PL/Makefile.PL from automake?

2006-04-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interfacing between Automake and ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a bloody disaster. They do not support the same paradigm or targets. MakeMaker does weird things like having 'make clean' remove the Makefile. MakeMaker is inconsistent between Perl releases.

Re: Invoking Build.PL/Makefile.PL from automake?

2006-04-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a problem since MakeMaker makes no provision for using uninstalled libraries. The only way it works reliably is if the libraries are installed. Regardless, I have found ways to use uninstalled libraries if the Perl extension is built as