On 2020-12-20 13:37 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/20/20 12:25 PM, Wookey wrote:
> > We realise that it was/is not the autotools design, but that design
> > only works well when the auto* bits get updated reasonably often.
>
> Yes, the design assumes that Autoconf etc. are maintained well,
On 12/20/20 12:25 PM, Wookey wrote:
We realise that it was/is not the autotools design, but that design
only works well when the auto* bits get updated reasonably often.
Yes, the design assumes that Autoconf etc. are maintained well, which
(except for Zack's efforts) has not been the case for
On 2020-12-20 17:46 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> This patch is already in Gnulib since 2020-12-09. But when people
> run 'autoreconf' on an existing released tarball, they are effectively
> combining an older Gnulib with a newest Autoconf.
>
> Why do people do that? The point of tarballs is that
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:09 PM Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I'm not happy about needing to kludge backward compatibility with the
> older std-gnu11.m4 into autoconf 2.70.1 but I'm going to do it.
It occurs to me that this would be less of a problem in the future if
aclocal/autoreconf could update
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 11:54 AM Ross Burton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 16:46, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> This patch is already in Gnulib since 2020-12-09. But when people
>> run 'autoreconf' on an existing released tarball, they are effectively
>> combining an older Gnulib with a newest
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 11:46 AM Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > $ diff -u m4/std-gnu11.m4{~,}
> > --- m4/std-gnu11.m4~2020-08-30 11:27:01.0 -0400
> > +++ m4/std-gnu11.m42020-12-20 09:43:13.001477099 -0500
> > @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
> > # François Pinard, Karl Berry,
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 16:46, Bruno Haible wrote:
> This patch is already in Gnulib since 2020-12-09. But when people
> run 'autoreconf' on an existing released tarball, they are effectively
> combining an older Gnulib with a newest Autoconf.
>
> Why do people do that? The point of tarballs is
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> $ diff -u m4/std-gnu11.m4{~,}
> --- m4/std-gnu11.m4~2020-08-30 11:27:01.0 -0400
> +++ m4/std-gnu11.m42020-12-20 09:43:13.001477099 -0500
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
> # François Pinard, Karl Berry, Richard Pixley, Ian Lance Taylor,
> # Roland McGrath, Noah
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:55 PM Todd C. Miller wrote:
>
> ./config.status: line 556: syntax error at line 562: `<<' unmatched
Could you please clarify exactly which program's configure script gave
this error?
zw
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:02 PM Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:52 PM Ross Burton wrote:
> > | checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
> > | ../bison-3.7.4/configure: line 6187: syntax error near unexpected
> > token `ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89'
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