[ANNOUNCEMENT] Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
This message is VERY important. PLEASE read the whole thing -- it will save everyone a lot of time and a lot of FAQs. Sections: What, Why, How, Who, Where, When, and Installation WHAT: (1) automake has been replaced by three separate packages aut

Re: Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Brett Porter wrote: > > > No. The new path setting is only good for *called* > > processes in the > > same fork/exec chain. The parent shell's PATH is > > not modified, so once > > 'autoconf' finishes and you drop back into your > > interactive shell, your > > old PATH is back in effect. > > >

Re: Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Brett Porter
> No. The new path setting is only good for *called* > processes in the > same fork/exec chain. The parent shell's PATH is > not modified, so once > 'autoconf' finishes and you drop back into your > interactive shell, your > old PATH is back in effect. > Sorry, I must have misunderstood. The

Re: Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Brett Porter wrote: > > I have a couple of questions regarding this (apologies > if already covered - I'm on the digest and only got > this message on announce). > > Let's see if I understand correctly: > 1. you run autoconf > 2. it sets the path based on a wrapper script > 3. next execution goe

Re: Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Brett Porter
I have a couple of questions regarding this (apologies if already covered - I'm on the digest and only got this message on announce). Let's see if I understand correctly: 1. you run autoconf 2. it sets the path based on a wrapper script 3. next execution goes to the desired one directly. Doesn't

Re: Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Corinna> This message is VERY important. PLEASE read the whole Corinna> thing -- it will save everyone a lot of time and a lot of Corinna> FAQs. Thanks so much for taking the time to both implement the wrapper scheme, a

Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
This message is VERY important. PLEASE read the whole thing -- it will save everyone a lot of time and a lot of FAQs. Sections: What, Why, How, Who, Where, When, and Installation WHAT: (1) automake has been replaced by three separate packages aut