Re: replace autom4te output file atomically

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:47:27AM CEST: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] comments: That's true of any program that uses temporary files; it seems like documentation is the right solution (since you obviously can't hook SIGKILL to do cleanup). This could be as simple as

Re: AS_IF failure

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:46:15PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: Yep. It's a timing problem: the `script' from the first test has the same time stamp as the `script.as' from the second test, tricking autom4te to think that its output is

Re: INSTALL should tell about particular systems, HP-UX cc

2008-08-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: +On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible. If GNU CC is s/GNU CC/GCC/? Wondering because GCC is used elsewhere in the document. In my understanding, GCC designates the GNU compiler collection (= all of gcc, g++, gcj, g77), whereas here I mean the GNU

Re: INSTALL should tell about particular systems, HP-UX cc

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:26:41AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: +On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible. If GNU CC is s/GNU CC/GCC/? Wondering because GCC is used elsewhere in the document. In my understanding, GCC designates the GNU compiler

Re: [SCM] GNU Autoconf source repository branch, master, updated. v2.62-79-g96e601a

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/21/2008 12:05 AM: - Log - commit 96e601a1596f116c52e5d13529850f0d6c61f943 Author: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 20 21:10:17 2008

Re: stronger docs on @SHELL@ usage in Makefile

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: The SHELL wording tweaking is fine with me, please apply. Done. In testing it, I found another make SHELL bug, fixed in GNU make 3.81 but broken in many other implementations. I added this commit to the series: From: Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: [SCM] GNU Autoconf source repository branch, master, updated. v2.62-79-g96e601a

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: The log says one thing, but the ChangeLog another, Sure enough I forgot to 'git add' again after the change, still lying around in my git-ssh tree. Thanks for catching that! Don't feel too bad. I did the exact same thing myself this

Re: [SCM] GNU Autoconf source repository branch, master, updated. v2.62-79-g96e601a

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:58:39PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: Is there such a thing as a pre-push hook? This just came up on the git list[1]. Thanks. One of the suggestions was adding this to your .git/config: Yeah. If I have to remember

Re: [SCM] GNU Autoconf source repository branch, master, updated. v2.62-79-g96e601a

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/21/2008 11:14 AM: One of the suggestions was adding this to your .git/config: Yeah. If I have to remember to use 'alias' for one repo but not another, then I may just as well remember to check for clean tree

O(n) patches and side effects

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, I'm looking through a bunch of the O(n) patches, and asking myself: The fact that rescanning is avoided (by one means for m4-1.4.x and another in m4-1.6.x), does that add a slight backward incompatibility if the macro arguments contains side-effects? I'm thinking of stuff like m4_syscmd

Re: O(n) patches and side effects

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/21/2008 5:12 PM: Hi Eric, I'm looking through a bunch of the O(n) patches, and asking myself: The fact that rescanning is avoided (by one means for m4-1.4.x and another in m4-1.6.x), does that add a slight

Message fixes

2008-08-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Please consider the included patch. It fixes the warning and error messages' capitalization and punctuation as per the GNU Coding Standards. diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7fdd897..20a2e01 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2008-08-21 Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL

Re: O(n) patches and side effects

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Hmm, I guess that means I should beef up the testsuite, as well as patching these misfits to guarantee exactly one expansion of side effects. Then the manual should indeed call this out as a design rule of thumb when working with quoted lists - all side

configure.ac, Makefile.am question

2008-08-21 Thread js_bach
Hello all, As I couldn't find anything on this specific issue, better ask... After being able to compile my code with help of autotools, now i want to deliver it as a package. In this case I dont want to give out my configure.ac and Makefile.ams in order to avoid some extra fiddling from others.

Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/21/2008 5:34 AM: Hello all, As I couldn't find anything on this specific issue, better ask... After being able to compile my code with help of autotools, now i want to deliver it as a package. In this case I

Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question

2008-08-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/21/2008 5:34 AM: Hello all, As I couldn't find anything on this specific issue, better ask... After being able to compile my code with help of autotools, now i want to

Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/21/2008 6:51 AM: If it's _his_ source code (and assuming that _he_ licensed it GPL), he can distribute whatever set of files he chooses. The restriction applies for files that he gets from someone else. yes

Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question

2008-08-21 Thread John Calcote
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote: If it's _his_ source code (and assuming that _he_ licensed it GPL), he can distribute whatever set of files he chooses. The restriction applies for files that he gets from someone

Re: Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question

2008-08-21 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 18:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well till i get things running, i dont want to get anyone fiddle around with the build system, that's all. After that, i'd appreciate if anyone comes up with a patch, change whatever it is. Help is always welcomed to give and take.

Re: how to adjust default CFLAGS=-g -O2?

2008-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:20:53AM CEST: According to Bruno Haible on 8/6/2008 4:41 PM: | Could this be made customizable somehow? Either through a variable that the | developer could set in his configure.ac before the invocation of AC_PROG_CC, | or through a macro

Problem with AC_CONFIG_FILES targets that contain variables

2008-08-21 Thread Sander Niemeijer
Hi, I found the following problem with autoconf version 2.62. When taking the minimal example with a configure.ac: AC_INIT(foo, 1.0) AC_CONFIG_FILES([foo-$PACKAGE_VERSION:foo.in]) AC_OUTPUT and a file foo.in containing e.g.: @PACKAGE_VERSION@ When running configure it