Re: [PATCH] dist: add new "pure-dist" automake option

2021-07-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 11:09 AM Allison Karlitskaya wrote: > > Since v1.15.1-204-gac47c22e3, "make dist" has been depending on > $(BUILT_SOURCES) to avoid problems when building some GNU packages which > need to compile themselves as part of building their tarballs (for > example, to generate

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-02 Thread Kasper k
Hi Hans, Thanks for taking interest. But I am not sure how would it break the parallelism of tests or anything in the test infra. The ask here is to optionally print an additional extra line before running the test regardless of order or medium in which they will eventually get rendered. AM

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-07-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:27:15PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2021-06-23, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake > > --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I > > don't have texinfo documentation. > > The

bug#49309: Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it

2021-07-02 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 01.07.2021 um 20:59 schrieb Kasper k: Then if some intermittent bad situation happens in unattended/disposable CI environment, as an example, then we won't be needing to opt into any kind of workaround, it'd be just there right in the "regular" make-check logs; without introducing crazy

[PATCH] dist: add new "pure-dist" automake option

2021-07-02 Thread Allison Karlitskaya
Since v1.15.1-204-gac47c22e3, "make dist" has been depending on $(BUILT_SOURCES) to avoid problems when building some GNU packages which need to compile themselves as part of building their tarballs (for example, to generate manpage content from --help output). This default behaviour might be

bug#49317: dist: depends on $(BUILT_SOURCES), but has no reason to

2021-07-02 Thread Allison Karlitskaya
[PATCH] dist: add new "pure-dist" automake option Since v1.15.1-204-gac47c22e3, "make dist" has been depending on $(BUILT_SOURCES) to avoid problems when building some GNU packages which need to compile themselves as part of building their tarballs (for example, to generate manpage content from