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Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.
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Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules. |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:56:22 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22) |
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:38:13PM CEST:
> Hi Ralf. Sorry you missed my last "drop this" message...
I didn't. I just hoped the post might be helpful anyway. Just ignore
it if it distracts you.
> At Friday 13 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Why are you not suggesting AM_MISSING_PROG([AUTOM4TE], [autom4te])?
> Bacause `missing 'recognizes autom4te as special, and tries to work
> around it if it's broken or not avaiable; but I do not want this
> workaround to kick in when $AUTOM4TE is called by e.g. aclocal,
> since aclocal needs a real autom4te run anyway.
Why? We don't fail either if aclocal is completely absent.
> Better to have
> a flat-out failure in this case. Alas, something similar holds for
> autoconf-called-by-automake too, so the patch is bounded to become
> still messier...
I guess I fail to understand why the 63 rule should apply to one
situation but not the other.
> > I guess I don't really see why searching for autom4te is somehow
> > a better a idea than finding out which autom4te autoconf actually
> > uses: that is, either $AUTOM4TE if set, or the thing that was
> > compiled in, which at least is guaranteed to match the Autoconf
> > version which autoconf comes from.
> Hmm... this is right, and I started to realize it by myself also...
> Probably something likethis would be enough:
> test -z "$AUTOM4TE" && AUTOM4TE=autom4te
> AC_SUBST([AUTOM4TE])
I'm not sure that is right, because configure doesn't know what's stored
as default in automake, autoconf, aclocal etc., so this might not be
what you wanted.
> Let's postpone further discussion until I post the updated patch, ok?
Sure.
Thanks,
Ralf
- [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/12
- Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/13
- Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/13
- Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/13
- Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/13
- Re: [PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/14
- [PATCH v2] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/14
- Re: [PATCH v2.1] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/14
- [PATCH v2.2] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/15
- Closing the thread, Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/18