Re: [PATCH] tests: skip broken automake wrapper on MirBSD

On 09/13/2010 12:26 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On Monday 13 September 2010, Eric Blake wrote: Hmm, yeah. The current version is harmless, but a patch to use the shorter regex won't hurt, either. Do you want to write it? Done in attached patch. The most difficult part has been writing a dec

Re: docs: document zsh specialty with empty here-documents.

Hi Gary and Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:40:06PM CEST: > On 09/12/2010 09:55 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > >On 12 Sep 2010, at 23:41, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>docs: document zsh specialty with empty here-documents. > >> > >>* doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): zsh

Re: [PATCH] tests: skip broken automake wrapper on MirBSD

On Monday 13 September 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > Hmm, yeah. The current version is harmless, but a patch to use the > shorter regex won't hurt, either. Do you want to write it? Done in attached patch. The most difficult part has been writing a decent ChangeLog entry (not sure I've suceeded in d

[PATCH] autotest: work around zsh bug

* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_DATA): Special case an empty data file, since zsh botches empty here-docs. * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing Testsuites) : Document that empty contents is allowed. * tests/autotest.at (AT_DATA): New test. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake --- Indepen

[PATCH] docs: mention gnulib portability docs

* doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability, Header Portability): Add external links to gnulib. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake --- > > Hmm - autoconf already has a node Header Portability, where this > > could be added. But right now, gnulib's documentation is already > > much more extensive than auto

Re: [PATCH] tests: skip broken automake wrapper on MirBSD

On Monday 13 September 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/13/2010 10:20 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > Hi Eric. Just a little nitpicking... > > > > On Monday 13 September 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > >> diff --git a/tests/tools.at b/tests/tools.at > >> index 167d68a..e4e119b 100644 > >> --- a/tests/t

Re: [PATCH] tests: skip broken automake wrapper on MirBSD

On 09/13/2010 10:20 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Eric. Just a little nitpicking... On Monday 13 September 2010, Eric Blake wrote: diff --git a/tests/tools.at b/tests/tools.at index 167d68a..e4e119b 100644 --- a/tests/tools.at +++ b/tests/tools.at @@ -1164,8 +1164,9 @@ AT_SETUP([autom4te pre

Re: [PATCH] tests: skip broken automake wrapper on MirBSD

Hi Eric. Just a little nitpicking... On Monday 13 September 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > diff --git a/tests/tools.at b/tests/tools.at > index 167d68a..e4e119b 100644 > --- a/tests/tools.at > +++ b/tests/tools.at > @@ -1164,8 +1164,9 @@ AT_SETUP([autom4te preselections]) > # If this test should run

Re: [PATCH] docs: fix minor typo

On 09/12/2010 04:22 AM, Fernando Carrijo wrote: Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo --- This is my first email to autoconf-patches list, so things may not be formatted exactly as you guys are used to. If that's the case, please let me know and I'll respin this fix. Thanks; this was perfect as-is.

Re: [PATCH] docs: Fix "See See foo" generated by "See @xref{foo}"

On 09/12/2010 09:30 AM, Fernando Carrijo wrote: Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo --- Spotted the present typos right after sending the previous patch. The release manager, to whom I have not been introduced yet, might prefer to squash both of them in order to reduce the pollution in ChangeLog. S

[PATCH] tests: skip broken automake wrapper on MirBSD

On a fresh default install, MirBSD ships with an automake wrapper script that has bad behavior: $ automake --version; echo $? Provide an AUTOMAKE_VERSION environment variable, please 0 * tests/tools.at (autom4te preselections): Skip, rather than fail, if 'automake --version' succeeds without prin

Re: docs: document zsh specialty with empty here-documents.

On 09/12/2010 09:55 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 12 Sep 2010, at 23:41, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: docs: document zsh specialty with empty here-documents. * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): zsh 4.3.10 adds a newline to empty here-docs. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.

[PATCH] docs: fix minor typo

Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo --- This is my first email to autoconf-patches list, so things may not be formatted exactly as you guys are used to. If that's the case, please let me know and I'll respin this fix. Thanks. ChangeLog |7 +++ doc/autoconf.texi |2 +- 2 files c

[PATCH] docs: Fix "See See foo" generated by "See @xref{foo}"

Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo --- Spotted the present typos right after sending the previous patch. The release manager, to whom I have not been introduced yet, might prefer to squash both of them in order to reduce the pollution in ChangeLog. Thank you. ChangeLog |6 ++ doc/a

Re: docs: document zsh special array $options.

On 09/12/2010 09:05 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Quoting zshall(1): THE ZSH/PARAMETER MODULE The zsh/parameter module gives access to some of the internal hash tables used by the shell by defining some special par

Re: doc: minor updates.

On 09/12/2010 01:47 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: OK? This makes all @uref's look nice in PDF output. Thanks, Ralf doc: minor updates. * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Use second argument of @uref consistently, for nicer OpenMP link. (Polymorphic Variab

Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc: index entries for non-environment, non-output variables.

On 09/12/2010 01:44 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Why @vrindex instead of @ovindex? We already document: @c Define an output variable index. @defcodeindex ov for all variables that are set during configure/autotest for use by the remainder of the script. [...] Oh, I see - you're trying to make