Re: document m4_foreach*/AC_FOREACH

). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

AC_LIBOBJ minor optimization

Are minor optimizations such as this worthwhile? It leads to smaller generated configures, and allows the shell to perform fewer pattern matches during operation. 2006-02-20 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Minor optimization. Index: lib/autoconf

Re: AC_LIBOBJ minor optimization

with my webmail. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD

Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf

get annoying warning messages from CVS head coreutils that a header is present but cannot be compiled. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: autoconf documentation slight modernization for C, other fixups

for instances of BSD. -- Eric Blake

Re: Tru64 expr limitation

they can be avoided, having seen how slow it is on cygwin). at_group_normalized=`expr 0$at_group/ : .*\($at_format/\)` cat $at_suite_dir/$at_group_normalized$as_me.log - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: more M4sh documentation

}, @var{version-2}, @ovar{action-if-less}, @ovar{action-if-greater}, @ovar{action-if-greater}) action-if-greater appears twice. -- Eric Blake

document AS_BASENAME

but not AS_BASENAME. Also, do we want to remove this line about m4sh, that was picked up in the context of my first hunk? For the time being, it is not mature enough to be widely used. 2006-03-22 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document

autotest fails when pwd is testgroup directory

to do). 2006-03-31 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Allow use in shell lists. * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be tolerant of existing directory when rm failed to remove it. Index: lib/autotest/general.m4

clean up m4sh.m4, then optimize AS_PATH_WALK

typos. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: document AS_BASENAME

are no longer calling 'basename /'. If we decide to take the approach of your patch, then _AS_BASENAME_PREPARE becomes extraneous, and you should delete it (since we would be removing the one reason we avoid a platform basename). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: maintainer checks

, it must be quoted to be protected to the shell. Therefore, we should always be able to break the quoting into two pieces, so that there is no longer a space-tab in the .m4 file. -- Eric Blake

Re: _AC_CACHE_DUMP simplified

to something in the environment such as 'ac_spac=${as_nl}ac_space= ', but the probability of configuring in an environment that polluted is too small to be worried about (since we already have a tough time handling newlines in the environment). -- Eric Blake

Re: autotest fails when pwd is testgroup directory

is not supported, is that a problem? How about this followup patch for the redundancy in autotest: 2006-04-05 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that AS_MKDIR_P exits the script on failure. * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE

empty test suite

Low hanging fruit (I was actually surprised it was this easy). 2006-04-05 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Prep AT_*_all, so that an empty test suite works. * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): Remove xfail. Index: tests/autotest.at

Re: autotest fails when pwd is testgroup directory

, # invoke ACTION-IF-FAIL, which defaults to printing an # error message and terminating the shell if not specified. Either way, it should be easy to change the m4 implementation to add the optional $2 argument which would let code avoid the AS_ERROR in AS_MKDIR_P. -- Eric Blake

Re: autotest fails when pwd is testgroup directory

and expanded its diff by a factor of nine through unrelated comment updates and white space cleanups. Please avoid that. Sorry about that. 2006-04-06 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that AS_MKDIR_P exits the script on failure

Re: autotest fails when pwd is testgroup directory

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/6/2006 9:57 PM: Ralf mentioned AC_MSG_ERROR, but that has different semantics (exit autoconf, not configure). So, (in a separate patch), here is a first cut at documenting another portion of m4sh. It must have been

const/volatile vs. -Werror

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This patch allows: ./testsuite -d -k 'C keywords' CFLAGS='-Wall -Werror' to succeed with gcc 3.4.4. There were so many tests in AC_C_CONST, some with duplicate names but different scopes, that I relettered the local variables. 2006-04-07 Eric Blake

Re: const/volatile vs. -Werror

of the two issues. 2006-04-07 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE): Avoid warnings from gcc. Index: lib/autoconf/c.m4 === RCS file: /sources/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/c.m4

Re: const/volatile vs. -Werror

, then it is indeterminate. But if the compiler doesn't warn about the reference to an indeterminate y, then I don't mind simplifying this patch by not changing that line (the warning I was attempting to fix was that y was not being referenced). -- Eric Blake

Re: autotest annoyances

idea better. I will resubmit with that paradigm. More comments coming to your other reply. -- Eric Blake

Re: autotest annoyances

. (It's not safe against all kinds of uses of backslashes; that would require searching for an echo replacement like Libtool does.) I'll start looking into this, but for now I will leave it as an xfail and focus instead on the issues raised by the first bug. -- Eric Blake

Re: autotest annoyances

(in order to preserve the full log). At the testgroup level, since the entire testgroup directory is blown away, the testgroup log is regenerated even when -d is specified. 2006-04-08 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Add new argument, to allow top-level

testsuite buglet

I think this patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-03/msg00067.html was inadvertantly applied wrong (it put the test for $() on the `` tests, then calls out the $() tests in the changelog). 2006-04-08 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests/autotest.at (Backquote

empty test

An empty test is somewhat different than an empty testsuite (although a user should not create one, we might as well avoid the syntax error of ( ) if they do). 2006-04-08 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK): Avoid syntax error on empty check

Re: empty test

of a subshell), rather than trying to play m4 games to guess when syntax is valid. Of course, how we handle something like AT_CHECK([;]) is up in the air, since by itself, ; is not valid as a script outside of a subshell, nor would it be valid with either of our proposals. -- Eric Blake

Re: autotest annoyances

raised by the first bug. No need. It was easier than I thought (because all the ingredients are already in place). See below. Nice (I would like to think that I would also have found that, if I had just spent time looking for it, but am glad you didn't mind the work). -- Eric Blake

minor cleanup

Minor annoyances: 2006-04-12 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests/autotest.at (Debugging a failed test): Fix comment. * doc/.cvsignore: Add autoconf and standards, created by make html. Index: doc/.cvsignore

Re: Cygwin and text mode

binary mode mounts are guaranteed (and that includes /tmp being mounted as binary, since /bin/sh (aka bash) uses /tmp for heredocs). [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00423.html [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00414.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

document M4 variable

I have been patching some core dumps in m4 1.4.4, and wanted to test my version with autoconf. To my relief, setting M4=/my/m4 worked to override which m4 was used, even though it wasn't documented. But I propose this to make it obvious: 2006-06-03 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * bin

FYI: testsuite typo

This bugged me, when running the 2.59e testsuite to regression-test CVS m4 (soon to be released as m4 1.4.5). Committed as obvious. 2006-06-06 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests/tools.at (automatically allowed tokens): Fix typo. Index: tests/tools.at

squelch changeword builtin

Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (changeword): Disable this experimental feature of m4 1.4.x. Index: lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 === RCS file: /sources/autoconf/autoconf/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,v

Re: m4_wrap behavior

definition of m4_wrap, with less overhead per use of m4_wrap than my earlier patch (no ChangeLog provided, as this is just an idea for now). -- Eric Blake Index: lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 === RCS file: /sources/autoconf/autoconf/lib

Re: Autoconf - CVS M4 interactions

the underlying cause of why CVS m4 is not defining builtins in the first place. -- Eric Blake

Re: another batch of minor doc patches

haven't tested it everywhere, so we may yet encounter a shell that does not obey that POSIX rule for cd. But since you have already checked it in, we may as well leave it there until proven otherwise. -- Eric Blake

Re: Autoconf release

aren't there yet, it may be possible to get there in the next few months). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: m4_wrap behavior

document that m4_wrap is only safe with one argument. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: new behavior in M4 1.4.5 breaks autoconf make check

on the exact text of the error message of a third-party program, but in this case, it will help ensure that automake users upgrade their m4 installation. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin

Re: Fix make check for outfashioned m4

`\3'\'':/ + s/^autom4te: [^ ]*m4 /autom4te: m4 / + s/^autom4te: [^ ]*m4\.exe /autom4te: m4 / + s/ (E[A-Z]*)$// +' stderr]], [0],[$4])]) ]) # AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE(FLAGS, [EXIT-STATUS = 0], STDOUT, STDERR) - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

m4 2.0 command line change

to tell the user that their version of M4 is outdated (since only 1.4.7 or newer will support the option --debugfile). 2006-09-19 Eric Blake eric.b.blake at l-3com.com * m4/m4.m4 (AC_PROG_GNU_M4): Check for m4 --debugfile support. * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Substitute M4_DEBUGFILE

Re: Fix chdir-long.m4 caching (was: megatest fallout)

renaming this shouldn't be a problem. How about covering our tracks so this won't happen again? 2006-09-25 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Warn if cache-id is not cached. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: Fix chdir-long.m4 caching

argument is literal but does not contain _cv_; otherwise it does not change behavior. I say go for the patch, as you have it written; and after we figure out a test case to add to make sure we are triggering the warning as expected. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: Fix chdir-long.m4 caching

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake-1 on 9/26/2006 1:28 PM: Well, here you go. First, the patch makes the `AC_CACHE_CHECK' test fail, so is incomplete. So here's a patch to fix the test, also test that we warn in the literal case, and add a case with a m4

Re: Fix chdir-long.m4 caching

. AC_CACHE_CHECK([for something else], [ac_var]) But I don't see any evidence of real-life autoconf macros this perverted, where the user cares about the final value of count. As I said before, I hope the problems should be rare. I hope so too. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: Fix AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE and others

, and I updated it last night to require AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS when that is defined. So autoconf no longer needs to worry. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: Fix chdir-long.m4 caching

. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

fix --version output

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GNU Coding Standards recommend listing the copyright as the second line, and delaying the authors to the end. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces OK to apply? 2006-10-15 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fix --version output

Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU writes: 2006-10-15 Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net * bin/autoconf.as (version): Reorder to match GNU Coding Standards. ... Thanks; please apply. Done, along with rewording to match gnulib's version-etc wording style, and accompanied

m4 2.0 maketemp vs. mkstemp

can also login to read the referenced proposed interpretation 117. 2006-10-19 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_maketemp): Avoid warnings generated by M4 1.9a. * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Color m4_mkstemp

m4_quote [was: fix AT_SETUP's sh-escaping]

, you are already in quoting trouble. There is an item on the M4 2.0 todo list to add a new builtin that can handle truly arbitrary text, regardless of unquoted commas or close parentheses, but that has not been implemented yet. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: Autoconf fails tests 24 and 26 with M4 branch-1_4 now

related. Now that the __line__ invoked under the hood by m4_defun in 1.4.7a tracks the location of the m4_defun's open (, rather than the location of the ), the solution is to collapse the testsuite use of m4_defun to a single line. Here's a proposed testsuite patch: 2006-10-26 Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: Autoconf fails tests 24 and 26 with M4 branch-1_4 now

Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:31:23PM CEST: [I guess since this is a patch, I should copy it to the patch list...] 2006-10-26 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require

Re: fix AT_SETUP's sh-escaping

at using ECHO_C/ECHO_N technology to make it possible to support AT_DATA([no newline]). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: patch for problems with echo '-...' and echo '...\...'

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 11/28/2006 1:50 AM: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still trying to further analyze why bash is crashing on this input, and whether it is just limited to cygwin or visible from other platforms. For what

Re: patch for problems with echo '-...' and echo '...\...'

Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: For what it's worth, I can't reproduce the problem on Solaris 8 (sparc), where Bash 3.2.5 was compiled by GCC 4.1.1 with the -m64 option. It seems to be a bug in newlib's asprintf, which would mean only platforms like cygwin are affected, but I'm

Re: cygwin -mno-cygwin AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

change. Any ideas? Patch below. Keep replies on the autoconf-patches list. 2006-12-01 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE): Avoid newline, to aid in cross-compiling from cygwin to mingw. Reported by Bob Rossi. - -- Life is short - so eat

Re: cygwin -mno-cygwin AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

. Yes, I think that reverting the older patch and removing the \n is safe according to POSIX rules. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: patch for problems with echo '-...' and echo '...\...'

- so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

supports FAT, although I doubt anyone is foolhardy enough to develop on FAT when there are so many better filesystems to choose from. But you need at least 'sleep 2' to guarantee distinct timestamps on FAT. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Re: Time for Autoconf 2.61a?

with libtool-like numbering, where ace... (odd letters) are reserved for CVS builds, and bdf... (even letters) denote snapshots uploaded to alpha.gnu.org? Other than the choice of the number, I agree that uploading a snapshot would be worthwhile. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

bump version number

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now that post-2.61a patches have been committed, we need to bump the version. Checking this in (plus regenerating files) as obvious: 2006-12-16 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version, since 2.61a is released

Re: print warning for unrecognized --enable and --with options

to be listed. -- Eric Blake

It's 2007

And so we don't have to remember this next year, I factored the copyright year into a Makefile.am rule. Committing this, since we have already made changes in 2007. 2007-01-04 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * bin/Makefile.am (RELEASE_YEAR): New macro. (edit): Use it to supply

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

, obsoleting my comments; I haven't seen any newer patch, though.) So far, the patch from the 27th is the most recent. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 1/29/2007 10:39 AM: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because I was hoping that M4 2.0 could borrow a leaf from shell parsing, and ALSO implement things like ${1-default} that is more compact than the current

Re: Windows / Interix / WGCC

/autoconf/c.m4. Either wait for 2.62, or use the 2.61a snapshot. -- Eric Blake

Re: Windows / Interix / WGCC

./configure for everyone. Not to mention that your patch hard-codes knowledge of the platform name, which is a no-no in the autoconf philosophy (test features, not platform names). -- Eric Blake

Re: Windows / Interix / WGCC

Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: 2006-12-01 Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE): Avoid newline, to aid in cross-compiling from cygwin to mingw. Reported by Bob Rossi. This resurrects the 2000-11-30 patch to Credit where credit is due. I

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

vocal about plain '${', with the one-by-one approach. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: I tried your warnings now: cat aclocal.m4 \EOF AC_DEFUN([Y], [${1}]) define([Z], [${1}]) EOF cat configure.ac \EOF AC_INIT AC_DEFUN([X], [${1}]) EOF M4=m4\ --warn-syntax autoconf | m4:aclocal.m4:1: Warning: semantics of `${1...}' in `Y

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 1/30/2007 7:23 AM: Let me think on this for a couple more days (as it is, I still haven't completely implemented extended arguments in CVS m4; partly because I want to do it right, so I want this thread to come

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

at the second. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

fix autotest copyright

. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

fix autotest option parsing

is acceptable, I will need to add a test to the testsuite that exercises these features. 2007-02-24 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_help_all): Recognize compressed short options. Obey GNU Coding Standards when presented both --help

Re: GNU M4 1.4.8b released (beta release)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 3/10/2007 4:12 PM: while), I still think that if printf.c is going to *assume* unsigned if long long exists, then config.h really ought to make this safe, say by having something like this in config.h.in: #if defined

Re: GNU M4 1.4.8b released (beta release)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 3/16/2007 12:11 PM: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried finding something in POSIX or C99 that said that an implementation could provide long long without unsigned long long, but did not see anything obvious

Re: Why if test xSTRING1= xSTRING2 (the 'x') ?

string, rather than blaming bash. If you are writing portable shell scripts, get in the habit of setting LC_ALL=C near the beginning. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 10:43 AM: On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 05:12 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 4:46 AM: To me this reads as: MinGW and Cygwin's test

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHnL884KuGfSFAYARAhpbAKDTxCidNQHR

Re: doc: an example fix

in the examples should not use the internal ac_ prefix. Please install. Anything we can do to discourage users from touching reserved namespaces is a good change. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

parallel make bug

? I tested with an in-tree build, so I'm a bit worried that I may have missed a VPATH subtlety. 2007-05-24 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Depend on autom4te. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Prefer AM_CPPFLAGS to @CPPFLAGS@

, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Patch proposal: Add an index in the documentation

to send patches with a text-based MIME type so that mail clients can display the patch inline, rather than sending it as application/octet-stream. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: test in a m4 macro and variable created from pushdef

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Re: Manual handling of arguments

, this macro is expanded by AC_INIT. Fixes 2.60 regression. * tests/base.at (configure arguments): New test. Report by Olaf Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Don't forget to update THANKS. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why does AS_UNSET export the variable?

catch. Sorry for not realizing that. I think we are stuck with the current implementation after all (at least, there are no extra fork()s, and this only affects really broken shells). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

FYI webpage update

, or should we delete those now that they are out of date? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

THANKS and AUTHORS

, and once we get direction on the GPLv3+ exception clause, to release Autoconf 2.62. 2007-08-30 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Housekeeping. * THANKS: Update, and convert to UTF-8 encoding. * AUTHORS: Likewise. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric

Re: THANKS and AUTHORS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/31/2007 12:17 AM: Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:07:17AM CEST: I'm inclined to apply this patch in a couple of days; the attachment is intentionally munged because it includes a large

Re: Bug in gnulib-tools prevents bison from bootstrapping

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [reviving an old thread, replies can probably drop bug-autoconf] According to Noah Misch on 6/23/2007 8:54 PM: On 23 Jun 2007, at 06:25, Eric Blake wrote: My system has a /usr/bison/m4 and a /usr/bin/gm4, but no /usr/local/bin/gm4, because later

Re: THANKS and AUTHORS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 8/30/2007 9:07 PM: I'm inclined to apply this patch in a couple of days ... 2007-08-30 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Housekeeping. * THANKS: Update, and convert to UTF-8 encoding. * AUTHORS

NEWS updates

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anything else we need to mention from what has been done so far since 2.61a? 2007-09-03 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * NEWS: Document fixes that have been applied since 2.61a. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well

texinfo cleanups

' and 'make pdf'. 2007-09-06 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texinfo cleanup. * doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid lines 80 columns when possible. Reword some paragraphs to avoid overfull, underfull hbox warnings. Add index entries to avoid overfull vbox warnings. Index: doc

Re: AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK [was: Bug in gnulib-tools prevents bison from bootstrapping]

of this patch, now that all independent issues that it touched have been resolved. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [replies can drop bug-autoconf] According to Martin Koeppe on 9/4/2007 10:01 AM: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Adding gnulib: this thread started at http://thread.gmane.org

expose m4_PACKAGE_VERSION,m4_version_compare

in functionality, so I think they are robust enough to expose. Any arguments why I should not apply this? 2007-09-12 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publish m4_version_compare, m4_PACKAGE_VERSION. * doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): Document m4_version_compare

Re: expose m4_PACKAGE_VERSION,m4_version_compare

completely from Autoconf (e.g. it could be distributed with M4 2.x) and already now it is used by Bison. Good point. How about this followup? 2007-09-13 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use AC_VERSION, not m4_AUTOCONF_VERSION. * doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): Remove

FYI parallel make improvement

this: 2007-09-13 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avoid parallel 'make check' issue. * tests/Makefile.am (mktests.stamp): New witness. (TESTSUITE_GENERATED_AT): Use it. (CLEANFILES): Clean the witness. * tests/.cvsignore (mktests.stamp): Ignore the witness

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