Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

2024-04-02 Thread Eric Blake
at least let us automate that each of the tarballs has the same contents, although it won't make it any more obvious whether those contents match what was in git (which was how the xz backdoor got past so many people in the first place). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Vi

Re: Relative path without realpath

2020-10-09 Thread Eric Blake
while appendix="${target#"$current"/}" [ "$current" != '/' ] && [ "$appendix" = "$target" ]; do if [ "$current" = "$appendix" ]; then relative="${relative:-.}" echo "${rela

bug#35886: Built-in variable dependency issue with bindir/exec_prefix/prefix

2019-05-24 Thread Eric Blake
x, then in turn prefix). Proof: $ make -f - <<\EOF > a=${b} > c=${d} > d=hi > all: > echo ${a} > b=${c} > EOF echo hi hi I see no bug here, so I'm closing this, but feel free to add more details if there is something else we're missing from your report and

bug#35762: (No Subject)

2019-05-16 Thread Eric Blake
"" >"$log_file" 'echo -n' is non-portable, but since all you are doing is using it to create an empty file, it's simpler to just: : >"$log_file" > +"$@" >>"$log_file" 2>&1 > estatus=$? > > if test $enable_hard_error

Re: A new, novel, and faster Binary Search algorithm

2019-03-15 Thread Eric Blake
he sort(1) utility, which would be the most likely program to pick up the use of this code? Or to glibc, to see if it is worth improving qsort() by using the ideas in your algorithm? -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | li

Re: AC_ARG_ENABLE and checking for unrecognized switches

2019-03-14 Thread Eric Blake
ch that behavior to warn or fail instead. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: autoreconf doesn't follow includes.

2019-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
happy to accept a patch to autoreconf to do similar chasing when building the command line to pass to automake, but I'm not sure how easy it would be for me to write the patch myself. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: autoreconf and depcomp

2019-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
omake. Updating mail distribution accordingly. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH] build: Install ocaml files relative to --prefix

2018-12-07 Thread Eric Blake
[adding the automake list, in case someone has advice] On 12/7/18 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 03:09:43PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Rather than always trying to install ocaml files into $(OCAMLLIBS), which is likely to be root-owned and therefore fail during

Re: if-else if condition in Makefile.am

2018-11-28 Thread Eric Blake
they make it a lot easier to reason about things when dealing with nested conditionals. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

bug#32868: Check if make supports nested variables is done twice when using silent rules

2018-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
(Debian version syntax): autoconf 2.69-10 automake 1:1.15-6 Regards Jacob -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: automatically showing test-suite.log on failure?

2018-09-21 Thread Eric Blake
='per-test log files' else at_msg="\`${at_testdir+${at_testdir}/}$as_me.log'" fi AS_ECHO(["Please send $at_msg and all information you think might help: in lib/autotest/general.m4, to mention the recommendation for compression. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engine

Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite

2018-09-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2018 10:35 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 09:13:13AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: ... Note that the most recent version of 'install-sh' as installed by Automake states: # Copyright (C) 1994 X Consortium looking at my collection of untarred X sources, there's an issue

Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite

2018-09-04 Thread Eric Blake
t shipping mkinstalldirs, and merely rely on $(MKDIR_P) and/or 'install-sh -d', for one less helper script installed by automake. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite

2018-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
hese, just make sure not to ignore # Now rename the file to the real destination. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

bug#32269: Expanding variables

2018-07-25 Thread Eric Blake
Makefile.am doesn't add non-portable code to be passed through to Makefile. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: automake compile problems

2018-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
instead of from tarballs. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: automake compile problems

2018-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
the tarball over? Once you've done that, './configure && make' should work without requiring either automake or autoconf installed on the mainframe. After all, the point of the autotools is to build self-contained tarballs that no longer require the presence of the autotools. -- Er

Re: automake compile problems

2018-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
ext is that might have caused it. Is there an earlier version of automake that built on your platform? Does using GNU make instead of your vendor's default make let you get further? -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.

bug#31465: Automake 1.16 breaks custom dependency handling

2018-05-15 Thread Eric Blake
und this by overriding am--depfiles to: am--depfiles: $(am__depfiles_remade) $(local_depfiles) No, that's still mucking around with automake's internals, and a bad idea. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

bug#31262: makefile = 1.14, when I have 1.15

2018-04-25 Thread Eric Blake
Makefile.am changed. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#30616: automake-1.16: aclocal is unable to process AM_PATH_PYTHON with variable as value

2018-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
ist + [m4_bmatch(py_ver, [2.[89]], [], [python]py_ver)])]) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: Which files to distribute?

2018-01-29 Thread Eric Blake
n you do 'make dist' (and you can run 'make distcheck' to make sure your tarball is self-contained). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#28967: How can I resolve this

2018-01-18 Thread Eric Blake
make::Channels::msg("automake", "", "global options already processed") that confuse automake itself. But we'd have to see the contents of log4c.m4 to know for sure. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#29638: Same five tests fail with 1.15 on RHEL 7.4

2018-01-05 Thread Eric Blake
an ease-of-use and consistency issue. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#29638: Same five tests fail with 1.15 on RHEL 7.4

2018-01-04 Thread Eric Blake
manually specifying all abbreviations as explicit options ourselves, rather than relying on Getopt::Long to do it for us). At the same time, once we do ascertain which version of Getopt::Long you are using, it may be worth reporting the flaw in that version to your distro vendor, as Automak

bug#28317: Non-portable sh script - $RANDOM

2017-09-01 Thread Eric Blake
> Maybe this would work instead: > > random=`dd 'if=/dev/urandom' 'count=1' 'bs=256' 2>/dev/null | cksum | sed > "$r"`\ > `date -u | cksum | sed "$r"` No, there's no need to furrther complicate something that is already correct even when $RANDOM is empty. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Warning - non-POSIX variable name

2017-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
lchain-ship/3.8/bin/clang) Why not just: ./configure CC="$PWD/../../llvm-arm-toolchain-ship/3.8/bin/clang" which turns your relative name into an absolute one? Do you HAVE to have the canonical name? -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-3

bug#25740: [PATCH] Swallow m4traces that have no file/line number

2017-03-07 Thread Eric Blake
XFile ($tcache . $req->id, "<"); >while ($_ = $traces->getline) > { > + # Traces without file/line > + next if (m{^m4trace: -(\d+)- ([^(]+)\((.*)$}); Would it be better to keep the error message, but set the file and line to placeholders, instead of comp

Re: Defining data files to install

2017-01-26 Thread Eric Blake
make/manual/automake.html#Alternative But I'm not as good at automake as I am at autoconf, so I'm cc'ing that list in, in case someone else has more ideas. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#25290: configure bug

2016-12-29 Thread Eric Blake
ing the EXACT error message may be helpful. But perhaps this will work: ./configure AUTOCONF=/dir/of/bin/autoconf where you are pointing to your just-installed newer version. Or you can try: PATH=/dir/of/bin/autoconf:$PATH ./configure to ensure that the first 'autoconf' on the PATH lookup is t

Re: Words in configure.ac that look like macros forbidden or merely discouraged?

2016-12-22 Thread Eric Blake
this here: > http://buildsystem-manual.sourceforge.net/Macro-name-quoting.html#Macro-name-quoting > , which I've adapted from the test in the automake manual. > > Contents of files: > > $ cat configure.ac > AC_INIT([helloprog], [1.0]) > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE > > echo AM_DC

bug#23839: automake git repository not cloneable with fsckobjects=true

2016-10-25 Thread Eric Blake
ll not automatically replace them with the fixed ones; you'll have to first delete the broken tags locally and then refresh from upstream. I'm attaching the names of the tags that got fixed; you can fix your local side by: $ git tag -d $(cat broken) $ git fetch origin --tags then, optionally use git

bug#23839: automake git repository not cloneable with fsckobjects=true

2016-10-21 Thread Eric Blake
agger Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> 818636335 + > data 0 It looks like that is all information scraped from each broken tag and the commit it points to, but automating it is easier than hunting down each broken tag by hand. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt vi

Re: More control over 'make dist'

2016-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
t coded up the tar -h rule, years ago, there really were Unixy systems where either the file system or the tar program didn't handle symlinks as gracefully as desired, which is a different beast than today's mingw situation). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: aclocal using automake Automake::XFile

2015-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
ly since the aclocal usage is trying to use perl's open("command |") notation, not open("file") notation. Could it also be a problem with your particular build of perl, or maybe a newer version of perl has introduced some backwards incompatible change that autoconf/automake now need to work with? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: method for altering installation location

2015-11-13 Thread Eric Blake
ady elegant/"smiled upon" methods for doing this in > configure (i.e. configure.ac). There's nothing for you to do in configure.ac (that doesn't scale - you'd have to modify every packages' configure.ac to get them to all act the same). Rather, the work should be done by whoever want

Re: What is minimum set of Automake work files needed for distribution on github?

2015-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
ks it, and runs './configure; make; make install' without needing any autotools installed. Ordinary users therefore do NOT use direct git checkouts. Working with git is reserved for power users. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: [PATCH] missing: add autoreconf, autogen and perl as supported programs

2015-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
, and not a problem with your original submission. Anyone that is subscribed to the list got the real contents, not the list-archived-munged contents. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

bug#20714: tap-driver.sh outputs incorrect .trs tag

2015-06-02 Thread Eric Blake
. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#20714: tap-driver.sh outputs incorrect .trs tag

2015-06-02 Thread Eric Blake
of a sigma, but I suspect even that can be done. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How can I pass $@ to Makefile?

2015-05-28 Thread Eric Blake
to get a feel for using nested layers of quoting when generating files. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
name for someone using the 'autotest' setup from autoconf (which is yet another testing framework, different from automake, where automake runs a single test called 'testsuite', but 'testsuite' itself can run multiple tests in series or parallel). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-08 Thread Eric Blake
are not very noisy. Running make captured all of the output of your tests, but if your tests didn't output anything, then the log has very little to show. Again, without knowing what your test scripts are doing, it's hard to reproduce your setup. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-08 Thread Eric Blake
the error messages I'd really appreciate it. Which error messages are you trying to remove? The only error message I say in the output you posted is expected, given that you have a failing test. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
15.2.3 Parallel Test Harness) says: The output from failed tests is collected in the test-suite.log file. If the variable 'VERBOSE' is set, this file is output after the summary. It works for me when I do: make check VERBOSE=1 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt

bug#20132: [PROPOSED PATCH] autoconf: port better to future gzip

2015-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
deletions(-) The title says autoconf:, but the mail was sent to automake, and the patch applies to the automake tree. Is the title intentional? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How do you echo a shell variable reference

2015-04-13 Thread Eric Blake
} at make time: foo: echo 'exit $$status' file -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: Question on AM_TAP_AWK

2015-04-07 Thread Eric Blake
of the present and the success of the future. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: how should package config files be installed

2015-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
for generating these files. What should be done in order to make this work? .pc files are created by the pkg-config tool. More details on their web site: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http

Re: how should package config files be installed

2015-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
to their FAQ: http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html#faq which goes into more details. I have not personally converted a project over to using pkg-config, so I can't provide any better details than read the manual. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt

bug#20082: new warning from ar on rawhide systems

2015-03-27 Thread Eric Blake
' (rather amusing, that 'cruD' is the spelling that warns). Next step - how to patch automake. I'm not familiar enough with the internals to quickly find the location to patch, if someone else is able to do it quickly. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization

bug#19614: make dist exits succesfully even when tar exits with error

2015-01-16 Thread Eric Blake
operations to shuffle fds around. It may be simpler to break things into two steps, with an intermediate file instead of a pipeline, although I'm not sure it would be efficient. But you definitely make a point that we should fix things to detect tar failure. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1

Re: Using 'make dist' with a 32 UID

2015-01-05 Thread Eric Blake
packages are rebuilt with newer automake. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [FYI] {micro} sync: update third-part files from upstream

2015-01-05 Thread Eric Blake
-2002, 2004-2014 Free Software Foundation, Hmm, is it worth getting autoconf up to 2015, and propagate that into gnulib, before you commit this? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

bug#13928: [PATCH] compile: don't place built object files in $(srcdir), ever ...

2015-01-02 Thread Eric Blake
), and 'baz.o' in $(top_builddir) rather than in +$(top_srcdir). + +This was the second part of automake bug#13928. + And thanks for tackling this! -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt

Re: [PATCH] compile: don't place built object files in $(srcdir), ever ...

2015-01-02 Thread Eric Blake
), and 'baz.o' in $(top_builddir) rather than in +$(top_srcdir). + +This was the second part of automake bug#13928. + And thanks for tackling this! -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt

Re: Portable Use of Variables

2014-11-11 Thread Eric Blake
to be on the leading edge of the curve, you aren't excluding that many users. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
the GNU Coding Standards represent, and deviating from them deserves a mention in configure.ac to make it apparent that you thought about it. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Portable Use of Variables

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Blake
is not portable. That said, POSIX is hoping to standardize it in the next few years: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=519 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#18715: mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering rebuilds

2014-10-14 Thread Eric Blake
, but mdate-sh has to run on systems that lack GNU date). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH] PATH: use double quote

2014-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
) are now handled differently. You need a lot more justification for WHY this patch is necessary. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH] PATH: use double quote

2014-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
for the shortest line. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: AM_CONDITIONAL fails with line break at the end of $2

2014-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/17/2014 12:44 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: Hi Erik, thank you for forwarding to the appropriate list! On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Eric Blake wrote: I don't know if automake should work around your bad syntax, or if you should just fix your configure.ac to use correct syntax to begin

Re: AM_CONDITIONAL fails with line break at the end of $2

2014-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
dropping autoconf On 07/17/2014 10:24 AM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding automake] On 07/17/2014 10:00 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: --- cond.m4 2014-07-17 17:46:37.741723897 +0200 +++ cond.2.m42014-07-17 17:50:43.456076469 +0200 @@ -13,17 +13,18 @@ [AC_PREREQ([2.52])dnl m4_if

Re: What would the correct way be to handle a program with a PID file being built to a prefix directory?

2014-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
of /var/run. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Produce symlink into builddir on VPATH?

2014-06-11 Thread Eric Blake
: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/modules/gnumakefile -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: please confirm license for Automake

2014-04-08 Thread Eric Blake
to GPLv3+ plus exception (the exception ensuring that you can use automake on a non-GPL project or on a GPLv2[+] project without being forced to use GPLv3), similar to what autoconf has already done. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#16843: Error caused due to regression in git

2014-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
(both for automake and for gnulib). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#16843: Error caused due to regression in git

2014-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/24/2014 12:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote: Yay - you confirmed that the solution that works for both versions of git is to ensure that we provide exactly one argument to the foreach command, where that argument gets passed through the shell with identical results. I'll patch maint.mk shortly

bug#16843: Error caused due to regression in git

2014-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
in the automake tracker, as the fix is for wget to upgrade to a newer version of gnulib, and automake has no bearing on it. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#16057: Non-parallel test suite API changes in 1.13

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Blake
-witness], [ serial-tests]) -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: bug#14991: distcheck passes --prefix to configure before *DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS

2013-10-30 Thread Eric Blake
the options passed to the original ./configure invocation through to the configure invocations in make distcheck. This was causing problems, because it also passed through the original --srcdir and --prefix options. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library

Re: [FYI] {micro} NEWS: update with the changes since v1.14

2013-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
that this bug O(N) perhaps? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#15639: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 3 4 23 25 130 132 133 134 135 failed

2013-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/17/2013 02:08 PM, Simone ETFerraz wrote: | Version 2.60. | Thanks for the report. However, this version is extremely old; more interesting would be tests against 2.69 or against autoconf.git (which reminds me, I need to set aside to release 2.70 soon). -- Eric Blake eblake

bug#15593: unnecessarily created autom4ate.cache directory

2013-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
feel free to continue asking questions in this thread. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: autotest, automake non-recursive makes

2013-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
have better solutions? And when you do come to consensus on the best solution, please also send a patch to the autoconf list so that they can update their manual to include it as an example. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: autotest, automake non-recursive makes

2013-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/26/2013 12:13 PM, Diab Jerius wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/26/2013 10:16 AM, Diab Jerius wrote: I embarked on a journey yesterday involving automake, autotest, and non-recursive makes. I started with the example Makefile.am snippet

bug#15113: the name for this page is incorrect.

2013-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
[re-adding the list, with permission of the sender] On 09/02/2013 12:52 AM, Renewal Computer Services wrote: On 8/17/2013 8:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/17/2013 02:09 AM, Renewal Computer Services wrote: The name for WHICH page is incorrect? You need to give us more details if you expect

bug#15293: odd .deps directories being created

2013-09-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/06/2013 02:22 PM, Eric Blake wrote: I'm playing with latest master branch (reports itself as version 1.99a; based on commit v1.14-120-gd26663f), and am seeing weird behavior regarding depcomps when trying to build libvirt commit 93e5997 (http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary

bug#15293: odd .deps directories being created

2013-09-06 Thread Eric Blake
source files and files shipped in the tarball, where it is desired that the end user need not regenerate the file, but a developer building from git always keeps the file up-to-date without having to check it into git? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization

bug#15113: the name for this page is incorrect.

2013-08-17 Thread Eric Blake
://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Setting python interpreter in scripts

2013-07-31 Thread Eric Blake
to the AC_OUTPUT, so that running config.status (as part of the configure script itself) will automatically replace @PYTHON@ from the script.in template into the output script without you repeating the work in your makefile. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http

Re: [Automake-NG] Specify target in Makefile.am file

2013-06-15 Thread Eric Blake
(which is a different project). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [FYI] {branch-1.13.2} HACKING: miscellaneous fixes, updates and enhancements

2013-05-15 Thread Eric Blake
his name in the commit message - and in the test case you write. Put him into THANKS. + that fixes or exposes the bug, an put him into THANKS. s/an/and/ -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI] tmp: backup-and-move top-level Makefile

2013-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
this as a rename? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [FYI] {maint} news: document new 'subdir-objects' warning

2013-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#35 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#44 + - The next major Automake version (2.0) will unconditionally turn on +the 'subdir-objects' option. I order to smooth out the transition, s/I/In/ -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266

Re: [PATCH] THANKS: update Eric Blake's e-mail address

2013-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de Erez Zadok e...@cs.columbia.edu -Eric Blake e...@byu.net +Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com Eric Dorlande...@debian.org Eric Magnienemagn...@club-internet.fr Eric

bug#14323: [PATCH] Fix detection of powerpc64 on Darwin in lib/config.guess.

2013-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
send patches with a ChangeLog entry to config-patc...@gnu.org. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
of no (which really means: if YOU write the patches and prove that they are worth maintaining, then it could be added in the future, but no one else is interested in this unusual setup): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-04/msg00021.html -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301

Re: $(OBJEXT) equivalent for .lo files?

2013-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
, so it needs no variable wrapper. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Autoreconf stops with non-POSIX variable name

2013-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
enabled and you need to add -Wno-portability to the Automake flags (in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, for example). ...tell automake that you don't care about the non-portability aspect by adding -Wno-portability to your AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, at which point you'd no longer need your @DOLLAR_SIGN@ hack. -- Eric

Re: Autoreconf stops with non-POSIX variable name

2013-03-29 Thread Eric Blake
use $(shell), or upgrade to Automake-NG (which _requires_ GNU make to be installed on the end-user's machine, and therefore should let you use GNU make extensions without question). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Eric Blake
. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
the distros have to carry downstream patches against configure.ac and Makefile.am that require rerunning the autotools as part of the distro process. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
the distros have to carry downstream patches against configure.ac and Makefile.am that require rerunning the autotools as part of the distro process. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
time with Automake-NG. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

2013-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
time with Automake-NG. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Drop support for 'configure.in' as the Autoconf input file

2013-01-28 Thread Eric Blake
of the tool it was originally created with, rather than rebootstrapping with the latest version of the tool and forcing the distro maintainers to heavily patch old packages. In other words, this is not necessarily a good argument. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt

bug#13514: unintentional regression with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR in 1.13.1

2013-01-21 Thread Eric Blake
is preventing bootstrap of the package. It sounds like our sanity check of whether the macro dir exists is too strict, and that there are legitimate reasons why even the primary directory won't exist on the first aclocal run. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization

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