Re: m4 1.4.4 on OS/2

[Eric Blake]

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Hi Andreas,

According to Andreas Büning on 5/4/2006 2:39 PM:
> Hello!
> 
> I've just compiled m4 1.4.4 on OS/2, and I had to modify some Makefile.in
> files (see patches below).
> 
> I've made the following changes:
> - Used $(OBJEXT) and $(EXEEXT) when necessary. @OBJEXT@ and @EXEEXT@
>   represent the object file and executable file extensions, and both
>   are supported by all current autoconf versions.
> - Added a .c.obj rule like automake does.
> - Added $(CFLAGS) to $(LINK) because a) automake does it, too, and
>   b) many users might expect this.
> - If I might suggest to insert m4.info into the PREFIX/info/dir file
>   so that m4.info can be found by the info reader. I added some code
>   from an automake-generated Makefile to doc/Makefile.in to call
>   install-info for the 'install' and 'uninstall' targets.

Thanks for the report.  Your changes amount to quite a few lines of code,
would you be willing to sign a copyright disclaimer and mail it to the FSF
so that I can apply your patch as-is?  If not, I will try to reverse
engineer what you are attempting based on your description above, and
apply a similar patch by comparing the branch-1_4 Makefile.in with ones
created by automake on CVS head, without referencing your patch, so that
we are not violating copyright assignment limitations.

> 
> Please, update mkinstalldirs to a current version because the included
> one is rather outdated.

Will do.

> 
> I hope the patches appended below are convenient for you.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Andreas Büning
> 

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