Re: vfprintf, scanf portability

2011-03-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:16:53PM CET: Paul Eggert wrote: http://buildlogs.pld-linux.org/index.php?dist=tharch=athlonok=1name=gccid=78974776-f08b-4b31-a977-863793c73c22action=text This log is inconsistent: In line 872 it shows checking for strrchr... checking for

[PATCH] maint.mk: allow fine-grained syntax-check exclusion via Make variables

2011-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: make syntax-check is complaining about space-tabs (sc_space_tab) in a sort of file where this is perfectly permissable: a .diff file. Why do I have a diff file in version control? Because I'm patching gnulib. Of course, I can add this to

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: allow fine-grained syntax-check exclusion via Make variables

2011-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: make syntax-check is complaining about space-tabs (sc_space_tab) in a sort of file where this is perfectly permissable: a .diff file. Why do I have a diff file in version control? Because I'm patching gnulib. Of course, I can add

Re: Making releases

2011-03-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 March 2011 16:09, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: I finally cajoled maint.mk into actually making a stable release of GNU Zile. There are a couple of odd things about the final stages: 1. It doesn't upload the release tarball c. itself, it emits commands to

Re: Making releases

2011-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: I finally cajoled maint.mk into actually making a stable release of GNU Zile. There are a couple of odd things about the final stages: 1. It doesn't upload the release tarball c. itself, it emits commands to do so. Why? Uploading is final. Once you do it, you may have

Re: Making releases

2011-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: On 16 March 2011 16:09, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: I finally cajoled maint.mk into actually making a stable release of GNU Zile. There are a couple of odd things about the final stages: 1. It doesn't upload the release tarball c.

Re: Making releases

2011-03-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 March 2011 16:45, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Currently the gnupload command is emitted at the end of a successful make stable.  Just because that succeeded does not always mean I am ready to release. OK, so an extra target is needed. I used to use make release. This would

Re: Making releases

2011-03-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Reuben Thomas wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 05:17:44PM CET: On 16 March 2011 16:09, Jim Meyering wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: 1. It doesn't upload the release tarball c. itself, it emits commands to do so. Why? Uploading is final. Once you do it, you may have trouble undoing it,

Re: Making releases

2011-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: On 16 March 2011 16:45, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Currently the gnupload command is emitted at the end of a successful make stable.  Just because that succeeded does not always mean I am ready to release. OK, so an extra target is needed. I used to use make

Re: Support for options in valgrind-tests

2011-03-16 Thread Bernd Becker
Hi Thomas, Am 12.03.2011 18:41, schrieb Reuben Thomas: Another day, another nice surprise from gnulib: it supports valgrind, so I can remove my own code for that...only, no I can't, because I add options (I add --error-exitcode=1 --leak-check=full). So, two alternative suggestions: 1.

Re: Support for options in valgrind-tests

2011-03-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 March 2011 21:22, Bernd Becker becker.be...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Thomas, Am 12.03.2011 18:41, schrieb Reuben Thomas: Another day, another nice surprise from gnulib: it supports valgrind, so I can remove my own code for that...only, no I can't, because I add options (I add

Re: Support for options in valgrind-tests

2011-03-16 Thread Bernd Becker
Am 16.03.2011 22:52, schrieb Reuben Thomas: On 16 March 2011 21:22, Bernd Becker becker.be...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Thomas, Am 12.03.2011 18:41, schrieb Reuben Thomas: Another day, another nice surprise from gnulib: it supports valgrind, so I can remove my own code for that...only, no I can't,

Re: Support for options in valgrind-tests

2011-03-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 March 2011 23:42, Bernd Becker becker.be...@gmx.net wrote: Am 16.03.2011 22:52, schrieb Reuben Thomas: Sounds like what's needed is a pair of variables that works like CPPFLAGS/AM_CPPFLAGS. how about an approach passing a variable into make like test_a_VALGRIND_OPTIONS=foo make check