Re: bugs in autotools wrapper scripts

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Charles Wilson wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool > > 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every > > option known to either -stable or -devel, but fail in > > several respects. > >

Re: bugs in autotools wrapper scripts

2004-11-21 Thread Reini Urban
Charles Wilson schrieb: Eric Blake wrote: The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every option known to either -stable or -devel, but fail in several respects. I've been thinking for a long time of dit

Re: bugs in autotools wrapper scripts

2004-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every option known to either -stable or -devel, but fail in several respects. True. First, the wrappers are not robust to new options being adde

bugs in autotools wrapper scripts

2004-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every option known to either -stable or -devel, but fail in several respects. First, the wrappers are not robust to new options being added. For example, libtool