Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-02-04 Thread John Ling
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: John> Thank you Alexandre for providing that documentation. I found the John> last section on "proxy" makefiles helpful in incorporating the other John> projects makefile. I did get it working with this method. For John> example, I did: John> lib_LIBRARIES += libloa

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-02-01 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "John" == John Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Thank you Alexandre for providing that documentation. I found the John> last section on "proxy" makefiles helpful in incorporating the other John> projects makefile. I did get it working with this method. For John> example, I did:

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-27 Thread John Ling
Thank you Alexandre for providing that documentation. I found the last section on "proxy" makefiles helpful in incorporating the other projects makefile. I did get it working with this method. For example, I did: lib_LIBRARIES += libloader.a libloader.a : cd cpp/db/loader; \ $(M

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Ahh, thanks. Well that surely destroys this idea. > > But begs for another, config.guess related question: > Its output being this unstable means: If you want to > make good use of config.guess, you better be tracking it > constantly. Ok, I knew th

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:03:56AM CET: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > Oh, yes, you're right. braino, sorry. This one is not about > > not changing the subpackage, but about saving space in the combined > > package. After all, auxiliary scripts with

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > I don't understand this. If a third-party package uses an > > auxiliary script, say install-sh, then that third-party package > > already contains install-sh and does not care about the parent's > > auxdir. Am I missing something? What kind of

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:56:41PM CET: > >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> A few issues that come to my mind possibly worth > Ralf> improving (not the documentation, but Auto{make,conf} > Ralf> with this respect) are > > Ralf> -

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-26 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Ralf> A few issues that come to my mind possibly worth Ralf> improving (not the documentation, but Auto{make,conf} Ralf> with this respect) are Ralf> - provide a way to communicate the value of AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR Ralf> to sub-pa

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:55:46AM CET: > > Here is proposed section about this for the manual. Please let > me know if this answers your question, or if it can be improved > in any way (including English mistakes). I'm not John, but I'll answer anyway. I like the s

Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-25 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "John" == John Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> My project, for which I use Automake, needs to build libraries from John> projects outside of itself. I tried incorporating this outside John> project's Makefiles into my own but without success. This is because John> they define thin

Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

2004-01-19 Thread John Ling
My project, for which I use Automake, needs to build libraries from projects outside of itself. I tried incorporating this outside project's Makefiles into my own but without success. This is because they define things like CPPFLAGS and top_srcdir in their own Makefiles. If I try to include