> It would make sense to install this Perl error handling at a single
> space somewhere in the configure place.
>
> Has anyone an idea how this could be made or where one can learn how
> to do this.
The current configure test for perl should be extended to abort if
perl isn't found.
Werner
>> Please don't change this friendly current situation.
>>
>> It is really a terrible thing that many projects do no longer / not
>> ship a self-contained repository, but one that requires an immense
>> amount of utilities just to create a runnable configure script.
>
> configure would *always* be
> have_perl:
> @command -v perl || ( echo "need perl" >&2; exit 1 )
>
> Add that to the Makefile and make have_perl a prerequisite for some
> early target.
Nice, but...
> Would that do what you want?
no. The test for perl should be at configure time, not runtime.
Werner
On 13/04/13 22:12, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote:
Keith Marshall wrote:
|On 13/04/13 14:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
|>> Any comments?
|
|Some projects do commit configure, others don't. IMO, it is better if
|it is*not* committed, but IIRC it has been there, in groff's CVS, for
|as lon
> Thanks for your expansion of `.cvsignore'. But the `autom4te.cache'
> subdirectory is still created for me, though without data files. It just
> has an usual CVS subdirectory.
>
> I'm not sure if that's only for me. Then it should be possible to kill
> it with `~/.autom4te'.
>
> But if it is
Hi Bernd,
Bernd Warken wrote on Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 05:55:43PM +0200:
> Werner Lemberg wrote:
>> Bernd Warken wrote:
>>> I ran `autoconf'. There was a subdirectory `autom4te.cache/'
>>> created. First I just deleted it.
>> This directory and its contents is *always* intermediate! It just
>>
> Von: "James K. Lowden"
>
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:48:49 +0200 (CEST)
> "Bernd Warken" wrote:
>
> > It would make sense to install this Perl error handling at a single
> > space somewhere in the configure place.
> >
> > Has anyone an idea how this could be made or where one can learn how
> > t
Keith Marshall wrote:
|On 13/04/13 14:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
|>> Any comments?
|
|Some projects do commit configure, others don't. IMO, it is better if
|it is *not* committed, but IIRC it has been there, in groff's CVS, for
|as long as I've been associated with the project. I would be
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:48:49 +0200 (CEST)
"Bernd Warken" wrote:
> It would make sense to install this Perl error handling at a single
> space somewhere in the configure place.
>
> Has anyone an idea how this could be made or where one can learn how
> to do this.
have_perl:
@command -v p
> Von: "Keith Marshall"
>
> Sure, you may keep your autom4te.cache around, for you own future use,
> but please don't "queer the pitch" for others, by polluting CVS with
> this local host specific data.
Thanks for your expansion of `.cvsignore'. But the `autom4te.cache'
subdirectory is still
Hi maouinin,
> Here is the entirety of the macro supplied by Tadziu Hoffmann in the
> original thread.
Did Tadziu intend you to write
.Q movies .
with any needed punctuation supplied as a second parameter, as is common
in some macro sets? I see .Y refers to $2.
Cheers, Ralph.
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
>
> I didn't notice anything from a quick look. I think I'd need a small,
> self-contained, complete, example of the fault that I could runoff.
>
>> \h'\\n[w]u'\v'1m'\\*[n]\v'-1m'\h'\\n[w]u'\\$2\x'1m'\x'-1m'
>
>
>
Sorry. The thread is over a year old. Here is the
On 13/04/13 18:38, Bernd Warken wrote:
So it seems to be not as bad as it seemed to be. It can be kept for
further runs of `autotools', for example if someone will do
`automake'.
1) We don't use automake; the only autotool we do use is autoconf.
2) Whatever content you accumulate in *your* lo
> Von: "Bernd Warken"
> > Von: "Werner LEMBERG"
> >
> > > I ran `autoconf'. There was a subdirectory `autom4te.cache/'
> > > created. First I just deleted it.
> >
> > This directory and its contents is *always* intermediate! It just
> > speeds up the execution of the autoconf tools. Actually,
> Von: "Werner LEMBERG"
>
> > I ran `autoconf'. There was a subdirectory `autom4te.cache/'
> > created. First I just deleted it.
>
> This directory and its contents is *always* intermediate! It just
> speeds up the execution of the autoconf tools. Actually, the
> `configure' script itself sh
On 13/04/13 14:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
I ran `autoconf'. There was a subdirectory `autom4te.cache/'
created. First I just deleted it.
This is correct.
Then I learned that `autoreconf' is the better `autoconf' because it
automatically calls all necessary `autotools'. But `autoreconf' al
> I ran `autoconf'. There was a subdirectory `autom4te.cache/'
> created. First I just deleted it.
This is correct.
> Then I learned that `autoreconf' is the better `autoconf' because it
> automatically calls all necessary `autotools'. But `autoreconf' also
> creates the subdirectory `autom4t
I ran `autoconf'. There was a subdirectory `autom4te.cache/' created.
First I just deleted it.
Then I learned that `autoreconf' is the better `autoconf' because it
automatically calls all necessary `autotools'. But `autoreconf' also
creates the subdirectory `autom4te.cache/'. I learned that thi
Hi maouinin,
> In mode 1, the blanks, etc. are printed and followed by whatever
> punctuation is present. However in modes 2 and 3, I am unable to get
> the punctuation to print. Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.
I didn't notice anything from a quick look. I think I'd need a small
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