Re: The Configure script of pari doesn't support Tab key completion of the supported options.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:34 AM Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 06:53:28PM +0000, Remigiusz Suwalski wrote:
> > Hi Zhao,
> > please provide remotes of repositories that you work with. (git remote -v).
> > Inside http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/gp2c.git there are no files names
> > Configure.

$ git remote -v
origin    https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git (fetch)
origin    https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git (push)
$ git log -1
commit 0ef87a4a505ec6d3dd41842557ae504f9009f16a (HEAD -> master,
origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>
Date:   Mon Jan 16 18:32:43 2023 +0100

    makecycgen: use precomputed value if SNF generator is the same as HNF one

$ git clean -xdf
$ ls -l Configure
-rwxrwxr-x 1 werner werner 6200 Jan 14 21:02 Configure

> If you run autoconf, you obtain a file configure.

I made the following attempts, but failed to generate this file:

$ autoconf Configure
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/trailer.m4:4: warning: AC_INIT was never used
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/trailer.m4:4: warning: AC_OUTPUT was never used

$ autoreconf -vfi
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: error: 'configure.ac' is required


> > Regards,
> > Remigiusz
> >
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Sunday, January 15th, 2023 at 02:51, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi here,
> > >
> > > I noticed the following strange thing: The Configure script of pari
> > > doesn't support Tab key completion of the supported options, as shown
> > > below:
> > >
> > > werner@X10DAi:~/Public/repo/pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git$
> > > ./Configure --<Tab><Tab>
> > >
> > >
> > > Any tips for this strange behavior?
>
> Yes, your shell completion system does not understand Configure.
> This has nothing to do with PARI/GP.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>