Re: __USE_UNIX98 to enable late pthread features

2010-08-24 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:01:14 -0700, Paul Eggert написа: On 08/23/10 10:28, John Calcote wrote: What is the correct approach for this situation? Should I simply define __USE_UNIX98 in my source code No, because that symbol is private to glibc. I wouldn't mess with it. Instead, use Autoconf's

Re: Warnings for excessive macro arguments

2010-08-24 Thread Yavor Doganov
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Let's use a specific example: AC_INIT([Pkg], [1.0], [bug], [pkg], [website]) Do you think that 'autoconf-2.63 -Wall -Werror' should have errored out for the website argument? Of course it should not and it would not error out. 2.63 is history, so there's no way a

Re: Warnings for excessive macro arguments

2010-08-23 Thread Yavor Doganov
Eric Blake wrote: I have to wonder if there are cases where rejecting extra arguments might not be advisable, No, the behavior should remain the same (silently ignoring them); any change smells like a dangerous path to follow. The only difference would be the warnings (well, errors with

Re: pkglibdir vs. lib64

2009-12-03 Thread Yavor Doganov
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: A diligent distro package maintainer certainly reads the Makefile.am, and also reviews the full diff between upstream releases. Very few packages do this, I don't think that anyone can state with reasonable certainty how many do or do not do this. I do it

Re: pkglibdir vs. lib64

2009-12-01 Thread Yavor Doganov
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Such a comment is also more suitable in the README, since a packager will not read the Makefile.am. A diligent distro package maintainer certainly reads the Makefile.am, and also reviews the full diff between upstream releases.

Re: Bug#557632: broken test for mmap

2009-11-24 Thread Yavor Doganov
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix AC_FUNC_MMAP regression from 2009-11-09. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Add

Re: AM_CONDITIONAL seems failure, help

2009-10-09 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:34:38 +0800, 张亚霏 написа: AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_PCRECPP],[test $build_pcrecpp=true]) Put spaces around `=' (also for the BUILD_LIBICONV conditional). The test for pcrecpp has to be performed with a C++ compiler, otherwise the conditional will always be false. (You can

Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question

2008-08-22 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:21:04 +0800, Tim Post написа: The GPL requires only that you make the source code available with all files needed to complete the build. So, in essence, you could exclude the things needed to rebuild the build system, but you would alienate anyone who is willing to help

Re: FYI webpage update

2007-09-07 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:55:16 -0600, Bob Proulx написа: I changed the headers so that replies remain in the autoconf list and not over at the non-public www-discuss list. That looks to have been an unintentional artifact of the way that message was forwarded. OK. I replied to Eric privately

Re: FYI webpage update

2007-09-06 Thread Yavor Doganov
At Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:51:40 -0600, Eric Blake wrote at [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know how the pig latin and sweedish chef translation pages were generated, or should we delete those now that they are out of date? As a general rule, please don't remove translations only because they're