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Re: autoconf problem building
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: autoconf problem building |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:28:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) |
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:
Tim> Unless there are other suggestions, I'll add the /dev/null to the
Tim> lispdir macro in aclocal.m4 and Automake (at least the test can
Tim> then be killed).
Yes, please, fix it in Automake. And add a piece of documentation in
Autoconf emphasizing the importance of putting a </dev/null when the
command is not supposed to read its stdin. I've seen too many checks
(Autoconf) and tests (Autotest) hangs because of this.
Tim> I'll also add an entry to Autmake's docs warning that the lispdir
Tim> macro can fail badly when 'emacs' isn't GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
Why not.
Tim> Is it worth it to have the lispdir macro print a message like 'If
Tim> this test takes a long time, you may have a bad or incompatible
Tim> emacs. Please kill this script and rerun it with the
Tim> --without-lispdir option.'?
Seems overkill.
- Re: autoconf problem building, (continued)
- Re: autoconf problem building, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/05
- Re: autoconf problem building, Eurico de Sousa, 2002/02/05
- Re: autoconf problem building, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/06
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- Re: autoconf problem building, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/07
- Re: autoconf problem building, Eurico de Sousa, 2002/02/08
- Re: autoconf problem building, Tim Van Holder, 2002/02/08
- Re: autoconf problem building, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/11
- Re: autoconf problem building, Tim Van Holder, 2002/02/11
- Re: autoconf problem building, Eurico de Sousa, 2002/02/11
- Re: autoconf problem building, Tim Van Holder, 2002/02/12
- Re: autoconf problem building,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: autoconf problem building, Eurico de Sousa, 2002/02/13
- Re: autoconf problem building, Tim Van Holder, 2002/02/14
- Re: autoconf problem building, Eurico de Sousa, 2002/02/14
- Re: autoconf problem building, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/27
- Re: autoconf problem building, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/27