Re: unix mailboxes and automake and AC

[Alain Magloire]

Bonjour

> Ok, I've got a patch for understanding what I call a unix-mbox.
> 
> It'll build an address node with a local-part, and nothing else, no
> _email, not _domain, etc.
> 
> But, I updated address.texi, too, and there's a problem with the
> Makefile.am I don't know how to fix. mailutils.texi doesn't depend
> on all the texi, I don't see how to make it. I added a rule to build
> the example code in address.texi directly from the c code in
> ./examples/addr.c, but it won't be run automatically since there
> is no rule saying mailutils.info depends on it. I noticed this before
> when I was editing address.texi, I made a little script to rm
> mailutils.info to force it to be remade so that I could work, but
> that was not exactly the Right Way.

You are the only programmer that I know that actually update docs,
documenting the changes, as they occur, etc ...  Bravo!
I should learn this too.  To my defence my english writing skills
are inadequate even with my friend Webster.

> Anyhow, attached is the patch. You'll have to manually do a
> make ex-address.texi
> 
> or else do it once, and add the output to cvs. The .am in Makefile.am
> stands for "auto-magic", doesn't it?

I'll take a look at this, later, modified your patch a bit :

ex-address.texi: ${top_srdir}/examples/addr.c
        sed -es/{/@{/g -e s/}/@}/g < $< > $@

> ChangeLog:
> 
>       mailbox/parse822.c,parse822.h: Now allow a unix mailbox in an address,
>       include/mailutils/parse822.h: declare the function to parse them,
>       doc/address.texi: document the fact,
>       doc/Makefile.am: automatically build the example code from addr.c,
>       examples/addr.c,Addrs.good: and update the parser test.

A ChangeLog!!!!!  Wow!!!
Remind me to buy you that beer (a real one, none of that Candian Molson
stuff 8).  But I'll have to drive you to Quebec/Montreal for it 8-).

> 
> Still, when it's cold you can dress up, when it's too hot you
> can't do nothing, so I guess I'm better off than you all up at QNX!

Of course you can.  But since we work in IT shops where the dominant
figures are males .... hmm .... you are right can't do nothing  about it.


Thanks for the patch.  Applied.

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alain