Re: Trial plotutils packages again

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

James R. Phillips wrote:
> --- Charles Wilson wrote:
> >  Your patch to the two configure.in's is much simpler: are you using an 
> > older, less stringent autoconf, or are you just ignoring the warnings? 
> > (NOT a showstopper)
>
>
> I am attaching a text file of the warnings I receive now when I autoreconf the
> patched source directory.  I didn't think the warnings sounded serious, but I
> am not certain.

No, they are not serious.  But they are annoying (to me, but I'm not the 
maintainer).  It is possible (PURE speculation) that support for 
acconfig.h and friends could go away in a future autoconf release -- 
since they are deprecated in this one.  In that case, you'd have to use 
something like my major surgery on configure.in...

(I didn't bother trying to fix the YYFLAGS warning).

I think I know why you had problems with my patch...If you look at the 
prep2 step of my shell script, you'll see that the autotools are called 
explicitly -- and in different orders for libxmi and <toplevel>.  That's 
the order in which they worked for me; any other order and I got errors; 
go figure.

Now, *autoreconf* doesn't give you that flexibility.  So, if you applied 
my small patch by hand and then just invoked autoreconf, I'm not 
surprised that you had errors.

Also, remember that the automake wrappers aren't "smart" anymore.  You 
have to either call them directly (automake1.9) or ensure that 
'alternatives' is configured so that the one you want is linked via 
/usr/bin/automake.  e.g.

   /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --config automake

and select the one you want to be the "default".

> Also, I didn't intentionally omit any of your "small" patch - I
> thought I had it all.

No, you got the important bits (although in slightly different form: 
C-style casts instead of C++-style, etc).  The only real differences are 
in the configure.in's -- and if it is current working for you (which it 
is) I'd leave well enough alone.  You've been thru enough with this ITP. :-)

>  But as I said, I added some sid patches to it.

Yeah, I saw the doc updates and stuff.  Cool.

--
Chuck