Re: autotest vs. in-use directories

2009-04-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:24:29PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: it's really sad that, while Cygwin adds POSIX-like functionality, it seems it always only gets it half-right, and that then requires other hacks in other tools to work

Re: aclocal problems

2009-04-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/10429/focus=10431 Hi Eric, John, * John Calcote wrote on Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 06:55:46AM CEST: On 4/3/2009 5:31 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * John Calcote wrote on Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 09:33:40PM CEST: On page 158, paragraph 3

Re: testsuite failure: multiple languages

2009-04-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:28:45PM CEST: * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:37:26PM CEST: 'make -C tests maintainer-check-c++' fails the 'Multiple languages' test, since you can't use C++ to compile a C-only program. Generally, autoconf tries to allow the

Re: AS_IF optimization

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/9/2009 11:56 PM: Which pre-dates shell functions. Therefore, since AS_IF is part of m4sh, which guarantees a shell with functions, can elide empty else statements with impunity. Thanks for the research. I'm

Re: aclocal problems

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/10/2009 12:32 AM: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/10429/focus=10431 I'd call it a documentation bug at this point. (Eric - comments?) Sorry for missing this thread; I tend not to

Re: autotest vs. in-use directories

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/10/2009 12:02 AM: No, the point of the above change is that I'm NOT deleting the current directory. Rather, I'm using ALL THREE globs to collectively name every possible file within the directory (think 'a',

Re: testsuite failure: multiple languages

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/10/2009 12:41 AM: In a separate configure.ac script compiled and run before the main part of the test, have something like this (without any CXX stuff in there)? Tested now. OK? Looks good. Thanks for beating

Re: AS_IF optimization

2009-04-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
This would be a good time to eliminate the term hairy constructs which is surely confusing to people for whom english is a second language. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,

Re: AC_TRY_COMPILE() annoyances with 2.63b

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 10 April 2009 00:27:24 Eric Blake wrote: According to Eric Blake on 4/6/2009 8:25 PM: According to Mike Frysinger on 4/6/2009 3:43 PM: I'm also leaning towards omitting the else if $1 is provably blank, otherwise providing the : in case non-blank $1 ultimately expands to a blank

Re: AS_IF optimization

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us writes: This would be a good time to eliminate the term hairy constructs which is surely confusing to people for whom english is a second language. Sure; I'll use 'lengthy' instead of 'hairy'. According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/9/2009 11:56

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/6/2009 12:03 PM: Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:14:36PM CEST: Ralf, do you think we should also add a 'parallel syntax check' test? Yes, definitely. And thanks for this patch and the

Re: autoconf 2.63b: wrong macro expansion order

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding autoconf-patches] According to Eric Blake on 4/6/2009 6:46 AM: According to Andreas Schwab on 4/5/2009 9:22 AM: From the POV of the macro writer the 2.63 behaviour does not look like a bug. Basically the following two snippets:

Re: aclocal problems

2009-04-10 Thread John Calcote
By the way, you may be interested in seeing how I was able to use m4_define and still get aclocal to use my file for gnulib's AC_DEFUN_ONCE replacement (coupled with an AC_REQUIRE([gl_00GNULIB]) in gnulib-common.m4): http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/m4/00gnulib.m4