bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-01-29 Thread Daniel Herring
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Feedback, opinions, objections? There was a lot to read, and I confess to not giving it full justice. Others have already extolled the virtues of backwards compatibility. Regarding some "why" questions, here's the manual entry on how versioning

bug#8694: Configure on mips

2011-05-18 Thread Daniel Herring
On Wed, 18 May 2011, James William Cronin wrote: When running automake generated configure scripts on an embeded mips based moded box (the Humax HD T2) - see www.hummypkg.org the generated make files contain a two letter addition to all variables followed by an @. (e.g. LL@, KK@ ir@ etc) The t

Re: Doesn't work: blah_PROGRAMS = $(EXTRA_PROGRAMS)

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Herring
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Daniel Richard G. wrote: I have a Makefile.am with programs that are conditionally compiled, e.g. EXTRA_PROGRAMS = foo bar if ENABLE_STUFF bin_PROGRAMS = foo bar endif I don't think you need to use EXTRA_PROGRAMS if you use the idiom