Re: useful bug reports

[Harald Dunkel]

PS: Sorry, I pasted the wrong Makefile.am into the EMail, see below.

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
>>Harald, please consider *providing more and useful information* if you
>>want help.  I for one can't read your mind, and almost every first post
>>of yours leaves me wanting for a crystal ball as to what has gone wrong.
>>This makes me for one be less and less enthusiastic about replying.
>>With newbies, or people where I do not know whether they are newbies or
>>not, one cannot expect more, at least the first couple of times they
>>post.  But you bee given hints before.  This is no service hotline.
>>I heartily recommend reading this (available in several languages):
>>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
>>
>>We have now again wasted 5 messages without getting to the point of the
>>problem you encounter: I still have no clue what's going wrong on your
>>side, and I bet you aren't happy about the situation either.
>>
> 
> 
> Sorry for not being more precise.
> 
> Here is a sample.
> 
>       #configure.ac:
>       AC_INIT(package,version)
>       AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
>       AC_CANONICAL_HOST
>       AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects no-define])
> 
>       AC_PROG_CC
>       AC_PROG_CPP
>       AC_AIX
>       AC_ISC_POSIX
>       AC_MINIX
>       AC_PROG_INSTALL
>       AC_PROG_CXX
>       AC_PROG_CXXCPP
>       AC_PROG_RANLIB
>       AC_HEADER_STDC
>       AM_PROG_CC_C_O
>       AM_PROG_LEX
>       AC_PROG_YACC
> 
>       AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
>       AC_OUTPUT
> 
> 
> 
>       #Makefile.am:
>       noinst_PROGRAMS = hello
>       hello_SOURCES = hello.cxx
> 
Should be
        #Makefile.am
        noinst_PROGRAMS = hello
        hello_CPPFLAGS = -I/somedir
        hello_SOURCES = hello.cxx
> 
> Autoconf is 2.59, plus Stepan's patch for c.m4, see attachment
> Automake is 1.9.6
> platform is Linux
> build platform is Windows, using MSVC 7.1.
> 
> The patch provided by Stepan some months ago fixes
> AM_PROG_CC_C_O for Windows and MSVC, i.e. configure recognizes
> that -c -o doesn't work as expected for Bill Gates' compiler.
> Looking into the generated Makefile I see
> 
>       CC = /somedir/compile cl.exe
> 
> The compile script is necessary for both C and C++ code. But
> it is not copied by Automake. Nor does it set CXX accordingly.
> in the Makefile.
> 
> The patch I had sent was an attempt to workaround the problem,
> but it is not sufficient. Any help would be highly appreciated.
> 

Regards

Harri