[ this thread starts at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-06/msg00169.html ]
Hi Sven, others,
* Sven Verdoolaege wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:11:36AM CEST:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:31:48AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
It's this version that fails on solaris.
Let's
[ taking libtool-patches back out ]
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:31:30PM CEST:
According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/9/2005 1:31 AM:
If not, then the patch below should work as
well, I believe (untested with newlib), and is less work than providing
argz_add as well
-12 Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tiny change)
* lib/base64.c: Typo.
(base64_encode): Put b64str in initialized data section.
Index: lib/base64.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/lib/base64.c,v
retrieving
disagree, please hold back this trivial patch rather than the
nontrivial (more important) ones which fix actual bugs. :)
Cheers,
Ralf
2005-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tiny change)
* gnulib-tool (dry_run): Remove use in favor of `dry'.
(func_cp_if_changed
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:55:33PM CEST:
Right now, roughly 230 files in gnulib/lib include config.h.
210 of those #include config.h, the rest config.h.
10 of all of them are not guarded by HAVE_CONFIG_H, about half of the
others by `#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H', and half
Hi Bruno, bug-gnulib readers,
In general, $LIBS needs to be prepended to, not appended, to allow for
static linking to succeed in the presence of deplibs already in $LIBS.
With specific libraries, the issue _may_ be different, but only very
rarely so[1]. This is why the patch below handles only
Hi Paul,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:21:18AM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would you accept a patch to change all of these to use
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include config.h
#endif
uniformly?
That makes sense to me, yes. We should be consistent
[ replacing bug-libtool with libtool-patches ]
Hi Eric, others,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:36:54PM CEST:
According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/9/2005 6:46 AM:
I hate runtime checks. This one will mean hopeless complication of
things, and worse results for any kind
Hi Paul, Noah,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:56:04PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I learned about this issue while actually trying to make use of a module
with one of the unguarded files; I did not use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.
Ok, sorry, I didn't know
, and
Noah's comment has been addressed.
Cheers, and thanks for applying these,
Ralf
2005-09-21 Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tiny change)
* mkdtemp.c, setenv.c, unsetenv.c: Standardize inclusion of
config.h.
Index: lib/mkdtemp.c
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:39:20PM CEST:
I'm sure there are plenty of other problems too, but this passes self
tests in GNU SASL so it is fairly complete... Once this is installed,
I can continue to add the modules that GnuTLS needs, which include
encryption modules
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:17:19PM CEST:
Ok to install?
Tiny nit.. ;)
*snip*
+/* Table of CRCs of all 8-bit messages. Generated by running code
+ from RFC 1952 modified to print out the table. */
+static unsigned long crc32_table[256] = {
Please make
Hi Martin,
If I may, a couple of comments on the code:
* Martin Lambers wrote on Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:13:25PM CEST:
*snip*
diff -uNr gnulib/lib/gettimeofday.h gnulib-gettimeofday/lib/gettimeofday.h
--- gnulib/lib/gettimeofday.h 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100
+++
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:28PM CEST:
I have installed this. Comments most welcome, as always!
Here you go.
*snip header with nice documentation*
By the way, has anyone suggested to use one of these documentation-
from-source-comments generators for
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:12:59AM CEST:
How about this?
Some style comments, if I may..
Index: lib/arcfour.c
===
RCS file: lib/arcfour.c
diff -N lib/arcfour.c
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:23:25PM CEST:
Comments welcome, of course.
Typo nits:
Index: lib/des.c
===
RCS file: lib/des.c
diff -N lib/des.c
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -
+++
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:55:32PM CEST:
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:23:25PM CEST:
+/*
+ * Table with weak DES keys sorted in ascending order.
+ * In DES their are 64 known keys wich are weak. They are weak
s/their/there/
and of course s
Hi Simon,
Keep in mind, this is all just IMHO. No need to heed my advice. :)
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:14:09PM CEST:
I thought about this more. There are only two defines that I believe
should be present in arcfour.h:
#define ARCFOUR_BLOCK_SIZE 8
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:02:58PM CEST:
I have installed this.
A quick glance showed up the nit below.
Cheers,
Ralf
*snip*
Index: lib/arctwo.h
===
RCS file: lib/arctwo.h
diff -N lib/arctwo.h
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:17:29PM CEST:
*snip*
Index: tests/test-gc-md5.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/tests/test-gc-md5.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 test-gc-md5.c
Ping! :)
* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:18:13PM CEST:
Stepan Kasal wrote:
sorry, this was a mistake, I meant:
m4_ifndef([AC_C_RESTRICT],
AC_DEFUN([AC_C_RESTRICT],
That should be OK. autoconf = 2.57 has no AC_C_RESTRICT, and
autoconf = 2.58 has one equivalent to
[ This is http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/5080
Please remove bug-gnulib from followups. Thank you. ]
* Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:06:59AM CET:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
Is it a problem in practice, ie, what are these non-Unix linkers?
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:56:51PM CET:
The base64 module has a warning on Linux/glibc:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/packages/megatestdir/base64/lib -I.. -g -O2 -c
/packages/megatestdir/base64/lib/base64.c
/packages/megatestdir/base64/lib/base64.c: In function
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:20:48PM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
It would be nice if you could make the $AUTO* variables overridable on a
case by case basis. Tools are named differently at places, e.g.,
autoconf25.
Will this work for the situation that you have
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:04:45PM CET:
To use the 'ldd' module is simple:
- add an AC_REQUIRE([gl_LDD]),
- use
$LDDPROG conftest$ac_exeext $LDDPOSTPROC
I assume you mean
$(LDDPROG) program$(EXEEXT) $(LDDPOSTPROC)
for Makefiles?
Because
[ removing the bug-coreutils list, adding libtool-patches ]
* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:07:50AM CET:
And perhaps the ldd module itself isn't necessary any more, at least
for now.
Given that it works on enough relevant systems, it would be useful in
Libtool's hardcode.test,
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:01:27PM CET:
While testing mingw32 portability (GNU SASL now builds cleanly
cross-compiled to mingw32!) I encountered the following. It seems
$(EXEXT) is required for automake TESTS variables, otherwise
'make' misses out all
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:36:35PM CET:
One more question about this macro: What is the difference between
-Xlinker and -Wl (apart from the slightly different syntax)? libtool and
config.rpath sometimes use -Wl to pass an option to the linker and never
[ Cc:ing bug-automake; this is
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/5240 ]
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:50:43AM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:42:17AM CET:
It doesn't seem
[ Pleas see this thread for the rationale of the patch:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/7018 ]
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:09:23AM CET:
And will send a similar patch for config.guess and gettext to its
respective mailing lists.
Please
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:51:57PM CET:
...
noinst_PROGRAMS =
check_PROGRAMS = test-lock$(EXEEXT)
TESTS = test-lock
check-am: all-am
$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_PROGRAMS)
$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS
check-TESTS: $(TESTS)
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:40:56AM CET:
I wonder what the best idiom for gnulib should be. We probably do not
want to require automake CVS just yet. Should it be the one I'm using:
TESTS += test-gc$(EXEEXT)
check_PROGRAMS += test-gc
or should we do
1) readline.m4 gives different results with cached reruns: for example,
on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu:
./configure -C
- LIBREADLINE=-lreadline -lncurses
./config.status --recheck
- LIBREADLINE=-lreadline
This is because the commands to set the cache variable
`gl_cv_lib_readline'
The mkdir-p module currently
- lists m4/chdir-safer.m4 but the file does not exist in CVS,
- defines macros gl_FUNC_LCHMOD and gl_CHDIR_SAFER but does not use
them (they are needed though).
Cheers,
Ralf
* mkdir-p.m4 (gl_MKDIR_PARENTS): Require gl_FUNC_LCHMOD and
gl_CHDIR_SAFER.
The following patch changes the last files over to the agreed-to style
for inclusion of `config.h'.
Cheers,
Ralf
* lib/mkdtemp.c, lib/setenv.c, lib/unsetenv.c: Normalize
inclusion of `config.h'.
Index: lib/mkdtemp.c
Two small changes:
- pacify Automake erroring out on:
| automatically discovered file `xstrtod.h' should not be explicitly mentioned
| automatically discovered file `xstrtod.c' should not be explicitly mentioned
- use $(EXEEXT) uniformly in TESTS (conforming to a recent agreement),
and use
FYI, a few of the gnulib tests currently fail:
On x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (omitting passed tests):
cu got b9a9a617
FAIL: test-crc
md4 1 mismatch. expected:
a4 48 01 7a af 21 d8 52 5f c1 0a e8 7a a6 72 9d
computed:
29 e6 63 dd dc 61 52 69 91 85 da 92 ed 96 c8 b1
FAIL: test-gc-md4
expected:
a4
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:42:18PM CET:
2) Similar with getaddrinfo.m4, except there is no need to store
additional information here. Beware, the getaddrinfo part of the
patch is completely untested.
The following patch to getaddrinfo HAS been tested:
If a project uses both modules argp and argz, error_t may be both
#define'd, and set as typedef in argp.h. The #define from config.h
(which comes ultimatively from argz.m4) kills the typedef of course.
For example on sparc-sun-solaris2.8:
| cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DEXEEXT=\\ -DEXEEXT=\\
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 06:28:35PM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would you install the remaining part of my patch as well, please?
Have you signed copyright papers for gnulib? I can't find them.
This process is not finished yet
Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:20:52PM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| * md5.c: Use `#error' rather than a string literal to provoke
failure.
| * sha1.c: Likewise.
I could not find corresponding discussion or bug reports
Another thing struck me:
* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:48:54AM CET:
(AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Don't assume #error works.
*snip*
Index: lib/autoconf/headers.m4
===
RCS file:
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:36:28AM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Better, thanks. But
--disable-random-device (--enable-random-devide=no)
could IMVHO still be given a useful meaning, which it currently does not
have. Since I don't
On powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0, poll is not deemed acceptable: the test in
m4/poll.m4 fails because polling on /dev/null does not work. It does
work to poll on regular files, though. Polling on /dev/tty does not
work either.
This documentation may be helpful:
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:06:31PM CET:
FYI: The update of RFC 3548 will include lib/base64.?, so additional
review of these two files would be appreciated.
If CHAR_BIT 8, then an unsanitized array `in' as argument to
base64_encode could read past the bounds
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:36:26AM CET:
[ this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/5424 ]
Sorry for the delay, here's a patch. Cc:ing libtool-patches as the
owner of the argz module. If you agree, I'll check this into Libtool
as well.
I have
The Makefile.maint (that is more or less) shared between coreutils,
CPPI, Bison, and Autoconf, has a check to prefer the spelling of
`file system' over `filesystem'. Automake ships `make-stds.texi'.
I assume some consensus over this rule has been established?
OK to commit this trivial patch to
Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:46:29PM CEST:
one overlong line in the DVI output of standards.texi?
Hmm. I'd rather not hardwire a line break, in principle.
Yes, I can see the reason behind this.
The patch avoids `@/' for the benefit of older texinfo
* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:50:48AM CEST:
Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+ But about AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE: note that in
+ autoconf = 2.60 the symbol separator is a comma, whereas here it is
+ whitespace.
I hadn't noticed this incompatibility. It is a real
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:33:28PM CEST:
I propose to add the attached doc to the 'verify' module. It captures the
interesting details of the verify macro. Objections?
A rough syntax check only:
*snip*
@item
Next this expression @samp{W} is wrapped in a type
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:39:06PM CEST:
Paul Eggert wrote:
I don't know of any hosts that have multithreading and localtime but
lack a working localtime_r.
HP-UX 11.00 with HP/PA.
HP-UX 11.23 with IA64.
In both cases:
checking whether localtime_r is
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:39:50PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FYI, a few of the gnulib tests currently fail:
On x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (omitting passed tests):
FAIL: test-gc-md4
FAIL: test-md4
Someone reported
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, May 11, 2006 at 06:14:19PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's still the test-crc failure remaining.
| cu got b9a9a617
| FAIL: test-crc
Hi Ralf! Paul's fixes to the crc module are installed now, did they
solve your
Hi Jim, Bruno,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:08:46AM CEST:
Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The module description of module 'getloadavg' appears to be missing the
lib/getloadavg.c source file.
configure: error: ././getloadavg.c is missing
That is because it's
an issue with this notation, and I don't want to see
this in the Autoconf tarball.
Cheers,
Ralf
2006-05-19 Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD
variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'.
Index: doc/standards.texi
Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:19:41PM CEST:
* doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD
variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'.
Before I bother rms with this, can you please explain to me the
objection to *BSD?
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:13:52PM CEST:
2) Who should maintain this section in the future?
Why does the section currently have only 20 entries, when an up-to-date
list of portability problems has more than 200 entries? I think the answer
is that the
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 12:22:35PM CEST:
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 12:12:59PM CEST:
+ int save_errno = errno;
You are using errno but not including errno.h.
...and realloc but not including stdlib.h.
Please compile your code with lots
:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You pass NULL to realloc and possibly to free but are not
depending on the realloc and free modules.
The free case was fixed in the last e-mail, but isn't realloc supposed
to handle NULL?
$ sed 2q modules/free
Description:
Work around
Tru64 UNIX 4.0D doesn't provide strtold (in the standard library at
least), but /usr/include.dtk/stdlib.h provides a declaration. Thus the
compile test in c-strtod.m4 fails. This causes a link failure for
coreutils-5.96 printf. The patch below seems to fix this (but I don't
know whether it
* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:20:58AM CEST:
Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about realloc (NULL, ...)?
In practice that is as portable as free (NULL). They were
standardized at the same time.
Well, with the difference being here that realloc, similar to
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:20:18PM CEST:
The only downside is that it bloats up 'configure' - but autoconf 3
should annihilate that growth, I'm told.
You should be able to rewrite this to use shell loops for the most part;
similar to how I started in this thread:
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:00:45PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
You should be able to rewrite this to use shell loops for the most part;
Actually, that's how I started doing it:
But this way, autoheader didn't recognise the AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
invocations, i.e
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:08:11PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Yes, but that's basically the only part that breaks this way. And only
one part of the AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, namely the part that needs to be
traceable for autoheader: the AH_TEMPLATE call
Hello Paul,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:01:33PM CEST:
[...] in coreutils CVS we're using a new gl_IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES
macro (defined in m4/lib-ignore.m4) that tells the linker to omit
references to libraries that are not actually used (this is the '-z
ignore' option
* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:35:43AM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One problem with generally using this is that libtool will track the
library dependencies regardless of whether the library is actually
needed or not -- it cannot know.
'cannot
* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:47:35AM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BTW, are the bugs wrt. as-needed fixed on all systems now?
Sorry, I don't know. I don't know what the bugs were. Would they
have affected coreutils?
I don't know. One reference
Hi Simon,
A couple of nits:
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:39:42PM CEST:
+ Currently only MinGW is supported. See the gnulib manual regarding
+ Windows sockets. MinGW have the header files winsock2.h and
s/have/has/
+ ws2tcpip.h that declare the sys/socket.h
Since I don't assume I get the chance of saying this very often...
* Larry Jones wrote on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:51:37PM CEST:
The big benefit is that it fixes the immediate problem now as opposed
to waiting for the autoconf change to percolate out into the world.
...this time the percolation
Hello Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:57:36PM CEST:
How about leaving it in for a while longer, but adding some sort of
assertion that will trigger if ever configure detects it's needed.
Here's what I did recently for coreutils:
Note that it does provide a way to
Hello Bruno, Paul,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:59:24PM CEST:
Paul Eggert writes:
The code currently assumes Autoconf 2.60 but could be backported easily
I think it's important to leave people a choice. Autoconf 2.60 will have
different bugs than autoconf-2.59, which
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 06:55:08PM CEST:
Eric Blake wrote:
Meanwhile, is it worth patching autoconf/lib/autoheader.m4 to complain when
$2 of AH_VERBATIM is empty, so this mistake is less likely to occur in the
future?
This would be welcome. Something like this
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:51:10PM CEST:
Paul Eggert wrote:
* m4/getusershell.m4 (gl_PREREQ_GETUSERSHELL): Remove; no longer needed.
All uses removed.
* m4/strtol.m4 (gl_PREREQ_STRTOL): Likewise.
* m4/strtoul.m4 (gl_PREREQ_STRTOUL): Likewise.
I
* quoting myself:
* modules/same-inode: New module, comprising same-inode.h.
* modules/cycle-check: Depend on it, don't list same-inode.h.
* modules/mkdir-p, modules/same: Likewise.
Never mind this patch. It needs either a bunch of m4/ updates to list
same-inode.h in
One of the cheapest (ahem) ways to catch a number of gnulib bugs is to
create one tree with all modules and all tests in it. If it works, that
is. So I started doing this manually, again. Here's some fallout on
the way to make
path/to/gnulib-tool --with-tests $l --dir=foo --megatest
work.
Hi Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:58:00AM CEST:
Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'll see if I can fix the crc module, it is probably the same 64-bit
problem as in the md4 or md5 module a while ago.
Nope, I think the self-test was created with an old
* Paul Eggert wrote on Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:33:47AM CEST:
* gnulib-tool (func_get_filelist): Don't echo m4/onceonly_2_57.m4,
for the benefit of people using Autoconf 2.60. If you want to
support older Autoconf versions you can copy m4/onceonly_2_57.m4
(or
Hello,
here's a patch to fix some typos, en_UK vs en_US differences and
inconsistencies. I could apply it, but I guess it needs approval
from some parties...
Cheers,
Ralf
* doc/functions.texi, doc/gnulib-tool.texi, doc/gnulib.texi:
Fix some typos.
* doc/maintain.texi,
Hello Bruno,
A while ago you applied this go gnulib:
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 03:53:42PM CEST:
Merge from gettext:
2005-02-10 Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* allocsa.h (sa_alignof): Define differently with AIX xlc, to avoid
a bug of this compiler on AIX
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:56:50PM CEST:
The Makefile.am commands for the javaversion module were incomplete.
2006-07-30 Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* modules/javaversion (Makefile.am): Distribute javaversion.java and
javaversion.class.
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:41:40PM CEST:
The macros of these modules take arguments; therefore no generally valid
invocation can be put into the module description file.
* modules/csharpcomp-script (configure.ac): Use AC_REQUIRE.
***
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:32:33PM CEST:
+ If GNU CC is not installed, it is therefore recommended to try
+
+ env CC=cc ./configure
+
+ and if that doesn't work, try
+
+ env CC=cc -nodtk ./configure
What does it need to persuade you to
Hello Bruno,
Let's move the GCS-related part of this discussion to bug-gnulib.
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:32:55PM CEST:
3) A recommendation to use VAR=value in the configure command line will
not work with some 'configure' scripts that comply to GNU standards
but
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:14:39PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* standards.texi (Configuration): Document that `configure'
should accept arguments of the form `VARIABLE=VALUE' and why
they are preferable over environment variables
Hello Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:08:38PM CEST:
* gnulib-tool (func_import): Check for unexpanded gl_ macros.
This looks like a very good idea to me, in general; minor issues:
- gl_ES is a valid locale name,
- `LC_ALL=C grep gl_[abd-z] gnulib/m4/*' shows many
* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:51:10AM CEST:
1) First, the order of subsections output in GCS is inconsistent between
the DVI and the info output (this does not happen with sections as in
the GNU make manual, but only with the section-lowering as done for the
Hello Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:36:11PM CEST:
In trying to prepare the release of (gasp) GNU Hello, I'm finding that
some gnulib files are being left out of the distribution tar.gz,
specifically the getopt-related ones. It looks like this is because the
gnulib
Hello Mark,
* Mark D. Baushke wrote on Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:37:06AM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Suggested patch below. OK?
I like your change as I think it makes it easier to understand.
Thanks. I'll apply in a day or two if noone objects.
I suggest you add
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:07:05PM CEST:
Since the purpose of is to show best practices, here are a few of them.
- #if HAVE_... instead of #ifdef HAVE_...
Autoconf is currently moving away from this, see this thread:
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:00:57PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
This should only be an error if `missing' cannot guess the output file
name. The fix is to use the flag -o or --output, to help `missing' to
infer.
And what about the cross-compiling case? 'help2man
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:40:31PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
We could ask help2man to have it return a different exit
status if it gets an exit status of 126 from the program, and have it
return 63 then, which `missing' will interpret as version
Hello Simon,
* Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:06:28AM CEST:
Perhaps autoconf should de-couple can i execute this binary from
cross-compilation. Autoconf could test if it is possible to run
programs by compiling a small program and run it, and see if the
output is correct.
Hello Bruno, Mark,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:53:35PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
You should note that object file
names are an internal Automake detail, so the naming of the respective
*_CPPFLAGS variable is not clear, for starters. Above would conflict
[ no need to discuss this on libtool rather than -patches ]
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:55:21PM CEST:
According to Paul Eggert on 8/26/2006 12:43 AM:
The basic idea is that source files should include config.h
unconditionally, so that we needn't clutter make output with
Hello Karl, Paul,
* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:33:14AM CEST:
why does gnulib/config/srclist.txt list these files as GPL, as do
the gnulib file headers, but modules/argz says LGPL, and libltdl is
distributed with LGPL + special exception?
I don't recall any deep
Hello Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:52:02PM CEST:
Here's one more little change I've applied. Without it, rerunning
coreutils' bootstrap and building would not update a stale copy of
configmake.h, containing the now-invalid CONFIGMAKE_ prefixes.
-configmake.h:
Hello Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:55:19PM CEST:
Even if there is a tiny efficiency gain (I don't see it),
such a change would feel like obfuscation.
Never mind, I was hallucinating again.
Sorry 'bout that,
Ralf
Hello Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:31:37PM CEST:
However, on MinGW all three tests fail because the program outputs CRLF
line endings, while the test suite creates files with LF ending.
Um, why? That is, why does catfoo produce LF files while hellofoo
Hello Paul,
Just a couple of quick notes:
* Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:35:09AM CEST:
getloadavg and fnmatch properly belong to Gnulib[...]
One way to fix this is to migrate the relevant test into the Autoconf
code, so that it no longer uses getloadavg.c, but the test is
I've pushed this change (which was part of a bigger patch) to from
Libtool to gnulib.
Cheers,
Ralf
2006-09-05 Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* argz_.h: Sync from Libtool.
2006-09-04 George Bosilca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL
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