Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 02:41:10 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [Ux2bs_Archive] No. 138 ************************************************** Friday 18 April 2003 Number 138 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Proposed patch for m4 : Andreas Buening 2 Re: COMPRESS : John Poltorak 3 Re: Proposed patch for m4 : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:52:54 +0200 From: Andreas Buening Subject: Re: Proposed patch for m4 John Poltorak wrote: > > 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? Take the automake and autoconf .info files (the link http://www.airs.com/ian/configure seems to be a good starting point though it's slightly outdated) and take a simple example package (e.g. sed). Good luck! 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: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:55:17 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: COMPRESS On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 11:46:24PM -0700, Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc wrote: > -----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. I've been directed here:- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume2/compress4.0 But don't really have a clue about what do next after the grabbing the three files... I think they may be SHAR files, but I don't have much of an idea about how to process them, although ISTR some sort of SHARUTILS suite at one time. > Also, why bother? gzip groks compress. Well it's part of the Single UNIX Specification, so if we can build it without too much bother I think we should, if only for the sake of completeness. -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 22:34:03 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Proposed patch for m4 On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 03:52:54PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote: > John Poltorak wrote: > Take the automake and autoconf .info files (the link > http://www.airs.com/ian/configure seems to be a good starting > point though it's slightly outdated) and take a simple example > package (e.g. sed). Good luck! Sed doesn't look to bad - this is all it consists of:- ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in SUBDIRS = djgpp doc lib sed testsuite EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE BUGS THANKS README.boot bootstrap.sh dc.sed I've managed the first two lines:- ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in SUBDIRS = checks doc examples lib src :-)... but don't have a clue if I need anything like EXTRA_DIST. Anyway, I guess I'll try a few things and see what happens... > > 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