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RE: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59)
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Tim Van Holder |
Subject: |
RE: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59) |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:59:38 +0100 |
> Personally, at least for the time being, we don't care about HOST: as
> said by Pavel, only specific packages will need it, and they certainly
> need it so badly that they already perform their tests. And if they
> don't, the simple fact that Autoconf supports some HOST-path-sep test
> will not make these package HOST-path-sep aware.
>
> So let's drop this.
Okidoki.
> But BUILD-path-sep *does* matter, and will be a significant win.
I agree.
> Could you describe precisely how it works? In fact, may I ask you to
> complete the documentation of PATH in autoconf.texi to explain how it
> works on Cygwin and DJGPP? Maybe Earnie would have good hints to
> give.
No problem.
> Because I seem to have understood we kinda can have ; or : as a PATH
> sep on Cygwin. But then, the test suggested above might not be right,
> since we will have to adjust ourselves to the choice made by the
No, on DJGPP both are possible (in bash only) - cygwin's bash seems to
always use ':' (with special magic to get around using drivespecs).
> user. Autoconf by itself does not care extending PATH, it wants to be
> able *split* it.
Autoconf itself, yes. But the result of this test would also be
AC_SUBST'ed in the build scripts (and the testsuite), where it could be
used to set the path (in fact, the autoconf testsuite unconditionally
prepends the builddir to the path, using a ':').
This is why we probably want to use ';' on DJGPP, as only bash is
(currently) smart enough to understand both ':' and ';'.
> Hm, let them be in AS_, forget Autoconf.
OK.
> PS/ Could you also add some doc about COMSPEC etc. in autoconf.texi?
> You're currently burned for code, but documenting is OK :)
I know. Would be easier if the docs were generated from the sources; I
keep forgetting to add to the docs because they're in a separate file
(heck, they're in a separate directory even :-)).
I'll try to get a patch together soon (including docs); but the last
few days I seem to be spending more time reading the influx of mail
than I do hacking^Wcoding.
- Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59), (continued)
Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59), Pavel Roskin, 2001/01/30
Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59), Akim Demaille, 2001/01/31
Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59), Earnie Boyd, 2001/01/31
RE: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59),
Tim Van Holder <=
Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59), Mark E., 2001/01/30
Re: GNATS needs some work (autoconf/59), Akim Demaille, 2001/01/31