Re: some clean rules don't work when some file starts with '-'

2008-03-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:01:30AM CET: > On 2008-03-21 00:24:20 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:26:21PM CET: > > > > > rm -f *.o > > > rm: invalid option -- . > > > Try `rm ./-.o' to remove the file `-.o'. > > > > Why w

Re: some clean rules don't work when some file starts with '-'

2008-03-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-03-21 08:24:34 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > But you still can't pass such a file to the linker without additional > hassles. So why not use 'gcc -xc -c -o ... -'? Of course I can use it. But before seeing the error with "make clean", I didn't know this could be a problem. And such prob

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Pickett on 3/21/2008 10:58 AM: | Hi, Hi Chris, and adding bug-automake, | | I had AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac and a macro from the | archive in m4/ that wasn't getting m4_include'd at the end of aclocal.m4 | after I

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Pickett
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Pickett on 3/21/2008 10:58 AM: | Hi, Hi Chris, and adding bug-automake, | | I had AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac and a macro from the | archive in m4/ that wasn't getting m4_include'd at the end of ac