Re: improved Automake test for file names with funny characters

2005-07-27 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm reluctant to chop $destdir using sed in a loop, but at least >> that sounds less clumsy than going into an empty subdirectory to >> execute set :) Any other idea ? Paul> Here's

Re: improved Automake test for file names with funny characters

2005-07-27 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] adl> mkinstalldirs also uses IFS the split the directory in case `mkdir -p' adl> does not exist, but its `mkdir -p' check is more restrictive. (I buy adl> your "sleep 1; test -d" instead.) On second though I don't buy it: i

Re: tests/defs should check for libtool.m4 and gettext.m4

2005-07-27 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Stepan> 2005-07-20 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stepan> * tests/defs.in: When required matches both `*libtool*' and Stepan> `*gettext*', check for both m4 files. I've installed this. Thanks! -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Re: Autoconf/automake support for preprocessable Fortran

2005-07-27 Thread Norman Gray
Alexandre, On 2005 Jul 27 , at 07.30, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Norman> (copyright paperwork has been a right pain in the Norman> tender bits). Do you mean it's completed, almost done, or yet to do? (I can't see you in the FSF records right now.) For me, (b) -- the paperwork should be i

Re: Autoconf/automake support for preprocessable Fortran

2005-07-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:11:16AM +0100, Norman Gray wrote: > :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/autoconf > :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/automake right. Stepan Kasal

FYI: improve two diagnostics for newcomers

2005-07-27 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
I'm installing this on HEAD. 2005-07-27 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (require_variables): Mention aclocal's search path when suggesting to add a macro in configure.ac. People are confused when Automake suggests adding a macro (such

Re: making tests dependent on the library that they test...

2005-07-27 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "EH" == Ed Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] EH> # These linker flags will be applied to all test program compiles. EH> LDADD = -lnetcdf -lhdf5 -lhdf5_hl EH> # Test programs (unless they have _h_ in the name) are dependent on EH> # the netcdf library (i.e. should be rebuilt if th