Re: minor fixes for make dist

2017-01-19 Thread Jack Kelly
Dimitrios Apostolou writes: > By the way, it seems I'm missing an important piece of the puzzle > regarding how automake operates. Can someone explain the following? > > ?LZIP?DIST_TARGETS += dist-lzip > ?XZ?DIST_TARGETS += dist-xz > ?SHAR?DIST_TARGETS += dist-shar > ?BZIP2?DIST_TARGETS += di

Re: [RFC] improving support for building native tools in cross setups

2014-01-29 Thread Jack Kelly
Yann Dirson writes: > It is not uncommon for software packages to build tools to be executed > at build time, to generate data files or more input files to compile. > > ... > > For the second point, it would seem a good idea at some point to > support a "native_" prefix, so setting eg. "native_PRO

Re: [IMPORTANT] Should I stop flooding the list with patches?

2013-01-02 Thread Jack Kelly
Stefano Lattarini writes: > So I ask: do you think it would be worthwhile to curb the quantity > of patches posted here, by posting only the patches judged worth > of "general interest"? Or, if that sounds overly "harsh", what > should I/we do to ensure important changes have more visibility? I

Re: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration?

2012-12-14 Thread Jack Kelly
Kerrick Staley writes: > Really, I'd just like to get gobject-introspection to compile on Arch Linux. > The problem is that gobject-introspection's configure.ac has the line > > AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5]) > > but gobject-introspection can't actually work with Python 3 or higher (the > default on Arch)

Re: [PATCH] AM_PATH_PYTHON: try "python2" et al. first

2012-12-13 Thread Jack Kelly
Kerrick Staley writes: > Usually, when AM_PATH_PYTHON is invoked with an argument of the form > 2.X, it means that only a Python 2 interpreter should be used, and not > a Python 3 interpreter. However, the "python" command invokes a Python > 3 interpreter on some systems (see [1]), so if we try "p

Re: [PATCH 1/2] AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR: accept more than one argument

2012-09-20 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Another ping. Automake 1.13 will need to know the interface of this > new Autoconf feature in order to integrate with it correctly, and start > deprecating ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS (in documentation only until Autoconf 2.70 > is out; after that,

Re: Refactoring elisp compilation

2012-08-05 Thread Jack Kelly
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 07/23/2012 01:26 PM, Jack Kelly wrote: >> I think the way to do this would be as an improvement to make batch >> mode more palatable in general. I think an environment variable or a >> change to default b

Re: Refactoring elisp compilation

2012-07-23 Thread Jack Kelly
Overall, I think the correct action is to set aside this silent-rules wild-goose-chase. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 07/23/2012 10:29 AM, Jack Kelly wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini >> wrote: >>> Maybe we c

Re: Refactoring elisp compilation

2012-07-23 Thread Jack Kelly
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Maybe we could try to write to the Emacs list for help at this point... I wrote the emacs list, and they pointed me to the NOMESSAGE argument for (load). Unfortunately the rabbit hole goes deeper... Emacs defines a variable, site-run-fi

Re: Refactoring elisp compilation

2012-07-16 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > At least we should find a way to silence all messages that are not > real warnings or errors... Otherwise, adding silent rules support > would just be pointless. I have been asking about this on SO, and there has been a little progress

elisp: --batch implies -q, so remove -q.

2012-07-15 Thread Jack Kelly
Hi automakers, I noticed that the --batch argument to emacs implies -q, so I patched out -q. Patch attached, which passes all lisp tests on my machine. Apply to experimental/elisp-work. -- Jack 0001-elisp-batch-implies-q-remove-q.patch Description: Binary data

Re: Refactoring elisp compilation

2012-07-14 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 07/14/2012 02:18 PM, Jack Kelly wrote: >> I had a crack at refactoring the elisp compilation, getting rid of >> elisp-comp and compiling files via a suffix rule. Patch is attached. >> >> I am not submit

Re: [PATCH 5/7] elisp: no need to "absolutize" $(srcdir) and $(builddir) ...

2012-07-14 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > * lib/am/lisp.am (.el.elc): ... here: we don't chdir around anyway, > nor move or copy around our source '.el' files. Update comments, > and re-wrap them while we are at it. > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini > --- > lib/am/lisp.am |

Refactoring elisp compilation

2012-07-14 Thread Jack Kelly
Hi automakers, I had a crack at refactoring the elisp compilation, getting rid of elisp-comp and compiling files via a suffix rule. Patch is attached. I am not submitting this for inclusion yet, I want to generate some discussion first. I have the following concerns: 1. I would like to add silen

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ylwrap: simplify the list of renamings

2012-07-13 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Akim Demaille wrote: > Le 12 juil. 2012 à 17:51, Stefano Lattarini a écrit : >> Also, taking a step back, we might ask: do we actually need continuing to >> support DOS? We see that doing so might (as in this case) add an extra >> burden on the developers, for no

Re: bug#11806: (setq load-path ..) of elisp-comp

2012-07-05 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Usually I'd agree, and in fact I had done as you're suggesting in a > previous attempt; but that caused the test 'lisp3.sh' to fail :-/ > With the patch I've posted, the testsuite remains clean at least. > > So I say we commit my patch: al

Re: bug#11356: automake 1.12 and (C) 2011

2012-04-27 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/27/2012 03:18 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On 04/27/2012 05:30 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: >> +++ b/aclocal.in >> @@ -840,9 +840,8 @@ $output"; >>    # name in the header. >>    $output = "# generated automatically by aclocal $VERSION -

Re: bug#7944: Should AM_PATH_PYTHON call AC_ARG_VAR?

2011-01-31 Thread Jack Kelly
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2011, Jack Kelly wrote: >> I've noticed that if you put AM_PATH_PYTHON in configure.ac, it >> doesn't add an entry for PYTHON in ./configure --help. Is PYTHON meant >> to be a user

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

2009-09-24 Thread Jack Kelly
Hi Ralf, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Jack, > > * Jack Kelly wrote on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:30:54AM CEST: >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> > Uh, oh, more bikeshed color questions.  Let's try to find

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

2009-09-23 Thread Jack Kelly
it, I'll cook up some tests and we can try to get this committed soonish. From 6ba77498485395acc5b3eb91ef346244dc29b03b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Kelly Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:24:04 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Add silent rules support for texinfo outputs. * automake.in (define_

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

2009-09-22 Thread Jack Kelly
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Jack Kelly wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > Thanks for the review. I agree with most of your remarks. > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues > wrote: >> * Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:33:27AM CEST: >>>

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

2009-09-22 Thread Jack Kelly
Hi Ralf, Thanks for the review. I agree with most of your remarks. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:33:27AM CEST: >> +       tagvars and verbose vars. >> +       * automake.in (define_verbose_tagvar): increas

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

2009-09-21 Thread Jack Kelly
>From ae772ea28436cb0c49a423b541d6b51f3e907cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Kelly Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:24:04 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Add silent rules support for dvips, makeinfo, makeinfo --html, texi2dvi and texi2pdf. --- ChangeLog | 16 automake.in