AIX status

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:02:37PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	I did not receive a direct reply from you, which would have
> helped. 

How's this one?  :-)  I assume that anyone sending mail to the list on a
regular basis is already subscribed and doesn't need 2+ copies showing up.
But I guess I'm in the minority on that one.


> 	Defining _POSIX_SOURCE and _XOPEN_SOURCE in os_defines.h is a
> particularly bad approach for AIX because that means os_defines.h needs to
> continuously track the AIX headers instead of allowing the AIX headers to
> set the correct value.  The ifndef definition of _POSIX_SOURCE in libio
> needs to go and targets should include the ifndef definition in
> os_defines.h. 

Guess I'm missing something... why can't os_defines simply include the AIX
system header which defines _POSIX_SOURCE?  That system header would be the
absolutely first one to be fully processed, so its definition would hold.
And the AIX headers would thus be continuously and automatically tracked.


> 	@MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ *is* referenced in the Makefiles, e.g.,
> 
> $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ Makefile.am $(top_srcdir)/configure.in $(ACLOCAL_M4) 
>         cd $(top_srcdir) && $(AUTOMAKE) --cygnus libio/Makefile
> 
> which produces errors.  I manually need to edit the Makesfiles
> substituting "#M#".

Hmmm.  That sounds like something else is going wrong.  My generated
Makefiles show nothing:

    % find . -name Makefile
    ./Makefile
    ./src/Makefile
    ./libmath/Makefile
    ./libio/Makefile
    ./libsupc++/Makefile
    % grep MAINTAINER `!!`
    % grep "@.*@" `!-2`
    ./Makefile:DLLTOOL = @DLLTOOL@
    ./Makefile:GCC_OBJDIR = @GCC_OBJDIR@
    ./Makefile:GCJ = @GCJ@
    ./Makefile:GCJFLAGS = @GCJFLAGS@
    ./Makefile:LIBSTRINGOBJS = @LIBSTRINGOBJS@
    ./Makefile:OBJDUMP = @OBJDUMP@
    ./Makefile:     @if test ! -f $@; then \
    ./Makefile:     @if test ! -f $@; then \
    ./src/Makefile:DLLTOOL = @DLLTOOL@
    ./src/Makefile:GCC_OBJDIR = @GCC_OBJDIR@
    ./src/Makefile:GCJ = @GCJ@
    ./src/Makefile:GCJFLAGS = @GCJFLAGS@
    ./src/Makefile:LIBSTRINGOBJS = @LIBSTRINGOBJS@
[... more of the same ]

since they were not generated with maint-mode on either.  Are you using
the maintainer-tools snapshot tarball thingy that Benjamin tossed out on
the ftp site?  The last full release of Autoconf&Co. has some problems
with what we're doing.


Phil

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