Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 02:41:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [Ux2bs_Archive] No. 137 ************************************************** Thursday 17 April 2003 Number 137 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Proposed patch for m4 : Andreas Buening 2 Re: Proposed patch for m4 : John Poltorak 3 ASH : John Poltorak 4 Re: Proposed patch for m4 : John Poltorak 5 COMPRESS : John Poltorak 6 Re: Proposed patch for m4 : Andreas Buening 7 Learning Autoconf and Automake : John Poltorak 8 Re: Learning Autoconf and Automake : Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc" 9 Re: COMPRESS : Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:10:06 +0200 From: Andreas Buening Subject: Re: Proposed patch for m4 John Poltorak wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:32:17PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote: > > John Poltorak wrote: > > > > > > I'm propsing to add this patch to m4:- [snip] > > > Does this seem OK? > > > > Yes. And the same for bindir and maybe other dirs. The only clean > > way to do this would be to switch to automake. > > I thought Makefile.am was required for using automake. > > m4 does not include Makefile.am... I know. The clean way would be to write Makefile.am files for m4 although this might be overkill. The original m4 from ftp.gnu.org hasn't changed since 1995 so there is little hope they will include a patch for OS/2. Bye, Andreas -- One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:13:33 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Proposed patch for m4 On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:10:06PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote: > John Poltorak wrote: > > > > Does this seem OK? > > > > > > Yes. And the same for bindir and maybe other dirs. The only clean > > > way to do this would be to switch to automake. > > > > I thought Makefile.am was required for using automake. > > > > m4 does not include Makefile.am... > > I know. The clean way would be to write Makefile.am files for m4 > although this might be overkill. What I've seen of Makefile.am files is that they don't seem to contain very much at all. Automake seems to do all the magic, so maybe there isn't that much work involved... At least for someone who understands automake. That discounts me,of course :-)... > The original m4 from ftp.gnu.org > hasn't changed since 1995 so there is little hope they will include > a patch for OS/2. I wouldn't expect GNU to update m4 for OS/2, but we could have our own little patch > > > Bye, > Andreas > > -- > One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, > One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them > In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 21:54:21 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: ASH I've recently found what appears to be the home of ASH - a lightweight shell developed by Kenneth Almquist here:- http://sources.isc.org/utils/shell/ash.tar.gz If anyone is familiar with ASH, do you know whether there has ever been any further development of the product? I know there was an OS/2 port at one time, but am not sure if it was of this version. In any case it would be nice to be able to build this one using UX2BS. Can someone give it a try? There is an ASHOS2.ZIP at Hobbes, but it doesn't contain any patches and it's not altogether clear whether it is a port of a different version, although I can't even find anything which alludes to anything like a version number... -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:01:30 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Proposed patch for m4 On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:28:33PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote: > John Poltorak wrote: > m4 doesn't contain any complicated stuff so I think it wouldn't be > very difficult to create Makefile.am files for it. Currently, I have > absolutely no time for things that aren't absolutely necessary. Can you suggest where I look to see what is involved in putting together a Makefile.am? > Bye, > Andreas > > -- > One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, > One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them > In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:13:38 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: COMPRESS Does anyone know where to find the source for COMPRESS ? -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:28:33 +0200 From: Andreas Buening Subject: Re: Proposed patch for m4 John Poltorak wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:10:06PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote: > > John Poltorak wrote: [snip] > > > m4 does not include Makefile.am... > > > > I know. The clean way would be to write Makefile.am files for m4 > > although this might be overkill. > > What I've seen of Makefile.am files is that they don't seem to contain > very much at all. Automake seems to do all the magic, so maybe there isn't > that much work involved... At least for someone who understands automake. > That discounts me,of course :-)... m4 doesn't contain any complicated stuff so I think it wouldn't be very difficult to create Makefile.am files for it. Currently, I have absolutely no time for things that aren't absolutely necessary. I also worked on a few rexx scripts for the installpkg stuff, e.g. a script that creates pkginfo files. But everything will have to wait until I have more time, at least till June. [snip] Bye, Andreas -- One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:59:15 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Learning Autoconf and Automake I just found a useful website for getting to grips with autoconf and automake. See:- http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf Not sure how uptodate it is... -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:34:07 -0700 (MST) From: "Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc" Subject: Re: Learning Autoconf and Automake -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:59:15 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: > >I just found a useful website for getting to grips with autoconf and >automake. See:- > >http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf > Someone on this list (Andreas?) pointed to this site which is a *very* good introduction to automake/autoconf/configure: http://www.airs.com/ian/configure/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0 OS/2 for non-commercial use Comment: PGP 5.0 for OS/2 Charset: cp850 wj8DBQE+oO3f5z5shEq8TYMRAugOAKCIJ+aFlYUPTU1fhF/0A0x7b5ySFQCg89oV HVnUR6v26VnLfqRIzdp1bzc= =kwo3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:46:24 -0700 (MST) From: "Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc" Subject: Re: COMPRESS -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:13:38 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: > >Does anyone know where to find the source for COMPRESS ? > I believe compress is so part of *nix it does not exist as a separate entity. I do not ever recall seeing it in the wild. Also, why bother? gzip groks compress. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0 OS/2 for non-commercial use Comment: PGP 5.0 for OS/2 Charset: cp850 wj8DBQE+oPDA5z5shEq8TYMRAuvTAJ0Qfe0xRhsqYxRjhrM39YdlNXFwngCghVEC vsda3NrfvW6Ke74vpLDYurs= =ZEg3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs