Hello,
* YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:13:51PM CEST:
When I run the configure script I get this warning :
---
[...]
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/bin/sh: /home/yugiohjcj/missing: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is
Hello,
* YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 05:04:54PM CEST:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:19:30 +0200 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 02:41:50PM CEST:
In my configure.ac file, I don't use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR or
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 07:10:47PM CEST:
On 08/27/2010 10:30 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
(Just for the record, I found this bug while running the automake
testsuite with CONFIG_SHELL=dash).
Out of curiosity, which version of dash? dash 0.5.6 has $LINENO
support,
Hello,
please don't top-post on this mailing list, thak you.
* YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:43:44AM CEST:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:37:04 +0200 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:14:15AM CEST:
But we can use a old
Hi Ben,
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:22:58PM CEST:
Current Automake appears to reorder the Makefile.am so that all
variable assignments precede all rules, so in a Makefile.am the
relative order of variable and rule definitions does not matter.
Right.
Is this behavior
Hello,
* YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:14:15AM CEST:
I know that pattern rules are not portable. When we use one pattern
rule, then we call autoreconf, we can see this warning :
man/Makefile.am:8: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
So if we want a
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:47:51PM CEST:
On 08/24/2010 10:42 AM, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
*** Since this library must not contain undefined symbols,
*** because either the platform does not support them or
*** it was explicitly requested with -no-undefined,
***
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:10:54PM CEST:
This patch shouldn't cause problems, as the modified tests do not use
shell functions nor complex shell constructs, loops or conditionals
(with the exception of `info.test', but see the FIXME comment added
to
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 09:36:34AM CEST:
On 08/22/10 06:11, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST:
I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation,
keep allocating stack space until they segfault
Hi Stefano,
you don't make it easy to catch up with you! :-O
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:54:52PM CEST:
* tests/remake0.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
OK with ...
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/remake0.test
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# Make sure the
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:05:20PM CEST:
--- a/m4/init.m4
+++ b/m4/init.m4
@@ -70,10 +70,22 @@ _AM_IF_OPTION([no-define],,
# Some tools Automake needs.
AC_REQUIRE([AM_SANITY_CHECK])dnl
AC_REQUIRE([AC_ARG_PROGRAM])dnl
+dnl We pass the the $AUTOCONF and $AUTOM4TE
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:14:03PM CEST:
Applied to maint, merged in master and branch-1.11, and pushed.
FWIW, somehow you managed to apply these two patches separately to each
of these branches, instead of merging them all from maint.
I'm fixing the merges with the
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:00:46PM CEST:
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
What is the actual problem by the way?
Basically, `missing --run /abs/path/to/autoconf' does not recognize
the program being run as an autoconf:
Why not adjust `missing
Apologies for the slightly off-topic message, but the German wikipedia
entry for autotools contains a number of inaccuracies and bias against
it. I consider myself biased so I won't edit it, but would be delighted
to see someone setting things straight, trying to avoid bias.
If you have
So long ago already ...
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:26:14PM CEST:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Is there a way to make this quite a lot faster?
The LTLIBRARIES bits: yes, noted. The PROGRAMS bits should be
reasonably fast already, only forking
Hello Roberto,
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST:
I am using Automake's simple test driver.
Are you using parallel-tests or not? Any setting for the variables
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, LOG_COMPILER?
I have three programs
that, due to a buggy program transformation,
I managed to get SHELL=.../zsh in some weird configuration of some
unrelated package (m4 on AIX in this case, but I've seen this issue
elsewhere and in other packages before), and it caused mdate-sh to loop
endlessly, trying to shift nonexistent positional parameters in the hope
of finding a date
Hello Jesús,
* Jesús wrote on Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:37:58PM CEST:
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `libA.la', needed by `libB.la'. Stop.
* Makefile for libB (simplified):
INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir)/dirA
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libB.la
libB_la_SOURCES = srcB.c srcB.h
Hello Jay,
* Jay K wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:34:50PM CEST:
= http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/testlogs.tar.gz
Thanks. You have GNU coreutils in your $HOME/bin I bet, but it looks
like it's a fairly old version; no non-GNU cp uses `quoting' in its
error reporting, and
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:23:47PM CEST:
On Thursday 19 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Are you aware that merging fix-foo in maint, branch-1.11, and
master is equivalent to merging fix-foo in maint, then merging
maint in branch-1.11 and master (under
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:39:29PM CEST:
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
I suppose automake could be enhanced to also define $(OBJECTS) as
the set of all objects.
What about libtool objects? Should we care about them? I'm writing a
couple
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:50:50PM CEST:
The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of tests,
introduced my recent patch Minor improvements and fixes in tests
`depcomp*.test'.
OK to push to maint ASAP?
Ideally, you'd commit this to a
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:09:15AM CEST:
HACKING: improve description of git bugfix branches.
HACKING: acknowledge Perl 4 as utterly obsolete.
Nits below.
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] HACKING: improve description of git bugfix branches.
* HACKING (Working with git):
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:42:01PM CEST:
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
On 08/18/10 13:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
At Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
#$(TESTS:=...@objext@): ../../bin/compiler
The above is rejected
Hi Bruno,
thanks for the report!
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:52:55PM CEST:
In the Automake documentation, the sections Emacs Lisp, Java, Python
are in a chapter Other GNU Tools, two chapters away from the sections
C++ support, Objective C Support, Assembly Support, Java
[ dropped automake@ ]
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:29:51PM CEST:
From ef90f67c33297b361ac9630fd5fa8be5d2e463d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:23:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix typo in manual
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:05:25PM CEST:
So is:
* doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
acceptable?
Sure.
OK for maint if you agree.
I agree, and I think I should add your name to the ChangeLog entry.
OK?
No need, but do however pleases
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:26:13PM CEST:
At Tuesday 17 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
On 08/17/10 13:26, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
$(TESTS): your-special-purpose-compiler
That dependency cases relinking whenever the compiler
changes, whereas I need
[ automake-patches@ added; followups can drop automake@ ]
Hello Thien-Thi,
* Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:22:31AM CEST:
() Ralf Wildenhues
() Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:32:44 +0200
Yes, with a general example, please.
I am unsure what general example means, precisely, so
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:06:40PM CEST:
If depending on GNU make was considered ok, then Automake would have
been developed quite differently than it is. Given current Automake
objectives, it is wise that individual projects also try to avoid
GNU make syntax in
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:37:22PM CEST:
At this point I can think only of two ways out:
I'd go with the previous solution or use the *_OBJECTS variables.
It's not likely that they change.
As an aside: Ralf, do you think this variables are stable enough to be
Hi Tom,
* Tom Tromey wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:21:19AM CEST:
The make part of the build parallelizes well, but the configure part
does not.
Yet.
I think that is the big problem today. It is particularly
noticeable in big trees like gcc or gdb.
Both of whose build systems could use
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:40:36PM CEST:
Don't hide the table of contents.
* doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
Good one! Thanks, also for the explanations.
Since the patch doesn't cause HTML node names to change nor
argument 'lazy' which
takes an optional list of conversion types where the requested
conversion isn't needed.
(func_cl_wrapper): Take advantage of the above for cases where
MSYS is doing the conversion for us.
Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
OK, thanks!
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:40:36PM CEST:
Don't hide the table of contents.
* doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
Good one! Thanks, also for the explanations.
Since the patch doesn't cause HTML node names to change nor
Hello,
* Paul Smith wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 04:33:46AM CEST:
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 23:32 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
# old fashioned suffix rule, portable
.xcf.bmp:
$(GIMP) -i -b '(xcf-bmp $ $@)' -b '(gimp-quit 0)'
Hey, maybe Automake hackers can riff off
Hello unnamed user[1],
* autom...@raphael.poss.name wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:47:07PM CEST:
is it possible to add additional recursive targets? I'd like to get
`recheck', `check-html' and `recheck-html' to work recursively.
right now, that is only possible by manually coding the
* Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:02:21PM CEST:
Probably Automake manual (and its readers)
could benefit from changing the mysterious:
We do not discuss pattern rules here because they are not
portable, but they can be convenient in packages that assume GNU
`make'.
Hello again,
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:11:59PM CEST:
* Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:08:39AM CEST:
FYI the Automake test suite currently fails on Hydra. The build at
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/502179 has 5 failures; the one at
http
Hello again,
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:11:59PM CEST:
* Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:08:39AM CEST:
FYI the Automake test suite currently fails on Hydra. The build at
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/502179 has 5 failures; the one at
http
Hello,
* samson.pierre wrote on Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:01:15AM CEST:
GIMP=gimp
RM=rm -rfv
BMP=bat.bmp beaver.bmp brown_bear.bmp cow.bmp coypu.bmp dromedary.bmp eel.bmp
elephant.bmp giraffe.bmp golden_eagle.bmp great_white_shark.bmp
hammerhead_shark.bmp human.bmp hyena.bmp jackal.bmp
Hello automakers,
Luca suggested Automake could be more helpful with profiling,
profile-guided optimization, coverage measurement.
So let's start evaluating the current situation, to get a bit better
overview. For the packages using C or C++ which I work on, it suffices
to
./configure
Hi Peter,
* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:37:59PM CEST:
This is one of the last bits of functionality from the (dwindling)
pr-msvc-support branch in Libtool (the remaining bit is triggering
the ar-lib script with a new macro and some things related to that).
Cool.
MSVC only
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:00:08PM CEST:
Note that I have not yet run the whole testsuite on this change; I will if
you tell me you're interested in the patch.
I'm intrigued by the fact that there appears to be a bug in the current
implementation. I agree
* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:55:54PM CEST:
Den 2010-08-07 17:56 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
install bla.exe .../inst/bin/foo.exe
install script.sh .../inst/bin/foo
and the second one fails (to overwrite the foo.exe). Does anybody
happen to know if this is due
* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:38:43AM CEST:
Den 2010-08-12 19:55 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
Same with 'compile' by the way. If -O3 is spelt differently for cl,
then I think translating that is a good idea.
I think we should keep such translation to a bare minimum. The chance
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:38:13PM CEST:
Hi Ralf. Sorry you missed my last drop this message...
I didn't. I just hoped the post might be helpful anyway. Just ignore
it if it distracts you.
At Friday 13 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Why are you
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 01:18:14AM CEST:
At Friday 13 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:38:13PM CEST:
At Friday 13 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Why are you not suggesting AM_MISSING_PROG([AUTOM4TE
I would like to thank everyone who provided input on this topic.
It certainly helps when considering where to go. One conclusion
from this is that we should get Peter's MSVC support finished
and completed for Automake 1.12 and the next Libtool release.
I wasn't aware that there are more
* Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 01:05:09PM CEST:
Den 2010-08-12 05:29 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
* Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:12:10PM CEST:
Oh... oh! That means that AM_PROG_CC_WRAPPER and AM_PROG_CC_C_O should
trigger 'compile' for completely different reasons
Hi Peter,
* Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:03:03PM CEST:
From 8c406f64b66aedee8359ddf1383e087faa2ba233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:01:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Enable the use of link -lib as the wrapped archiver.
*
* Jason Kraftcheck wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 05:25:10PM CEST:
I would like to enable some of the options new to version 1.11 of automake
(color-tests, silent-rules, parallel-tests.) However, many of the people
I work with are still using version 1.10. I had hoped that 1.10 would just
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:47:01PM CEST:
At Friday 06 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
From 92020702ac9b8cde2ecfa248b5d34795d7209e44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
2001 From: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:40:55 +0200
Subject
* Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:12:10PM CEST:
One thing to consider is that the compile script is triggered by chance
for MSVC. It is just a lucky coincidence that MSVC doesn't support -c -o,
so that the compile script can add that support and then tag on the other
needed crap.
* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:01:29AM CEST:
'wrappar' did cross my mind, but that just looks like a funny accent :-)
Yes, that one is funny indeed, and another almost-palindrome.
Den 2010-08-09 21:39 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
Further I'm fixing the archive and the compile script
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:28:44AM CEST:
Being forced to rescan this patch some time after having written it,
I must admit that the noise-to-improvement ratio is way too high.
So OK, let's drop most of this patch. However, I'd like to retain
a couple of changes more
Hi Jeff,
* Daily, Jeff A wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:54:53PM CEST:
I am using subdir-objects and I have a single, top-level Makefile.am:
#*snip*
BUILT_SOURCES =
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la
libfoo_la_SOURCES =
#*snip*
If HAVE_PYTHON
BUILT_SOURCES += foo/bar/wapi.c
foo/bar/wapi.c:
* Daily, Jeff A wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:45:43PM CEST:
Which make version and implementation,
Please answer this one as well.
* Andrew W. Nosenko wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:02:09PM CEST:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 09:03, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Darn, we need another name: 'archive' is likely too common when automake
is going to put all files with that name in the distribution of each
package using Automake
FWIW, I've synced config.guess, config.sub, and texinfo.tex from
upstream, and fixed a maintainer-check failure as below, both patches
for maint.
Cheers,
Ralf
Fix maintainer-check failure.
* tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
time stamp differences.
diff
Hello Karl,
* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:43:03PM CEST:
Add new auxiliary 'ar-lib' script, wrapping Microsoft lib.
* lib/ar-lib: New auxiliary script.
[...]
could you please adjust your scripts to also autoupdate the 'ar-lib'
script from Automake to Gnulib, just like
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:06:04PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
No. You save a fork with
foo ()
{
...
foo_result=bar
}
foo ARG...
test $foo_result = ...
Yes, but how do you get foo_result in our case
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:29:19PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Except this would have been caught by make check already, so it
doesn't count as an argument in favor of that patch, right? ;-)
But make check is slooow on my machine, so when
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:48:00PM CEST:
Yet another testsuite-tweaking patch.
* tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
Add a trailing `:' command.
* tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
it's not in in the
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:53:21PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Also, regenerating the tree with Autoconf 2.67 and committing that
separately is preapproved for maint.
Couldn't this cause problems when later merging to master? If yes
Hello Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 03:26:04PM CEST:
* tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
comment. Prefer fgrep over grep.
* tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
not called by `make install', but that data files are
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:54:20PM CEST:
Ping on this? It seems to me that most issues with this patch had
already been solved, so it's probably a pity to let it bitrotting
here...
Well, I'd prefer the extract_dependencies script approach which
would be more correct
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 04:48:03PM CEST:
Another testsuite-tweaking patch. This time, the changes should be
small and simple.
Minor improvements for tests `acloca*.test'.
This is not ok. Let's just drop everything from it except for the
changes I've copied below.
I'm seeing a presumably new failure on Cygwin that I don't remember
seeing before. The gist is the following: transform2.test tries
something like
install bla.exe .../inst/bin/foo.exe
install script.sh .../inst/bin/foo
and the second one fails (to overwrite the foo.exe). Does anybody
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:36:57PM CEST:
* tests/all.test: Run aclocal only once. Minor cosmetic changes.
Move checks that several *-local's in a single rule work ...
This sentence does not make sense to me. Maybe a missing word?
* tests/manylocal.test: ... in this
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 03:41:14PM CEST:
* tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
* tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
* tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
unportable
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:16:28PM CEST:
Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
* tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
* tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
OK for maint, but only if you also update tests/Makefile.{am,in}
to avoid subsequent testsuite failure. ;-)
Cheers,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:44:32PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
-$FGREP 'generic/a.$(OBJEXT)' Makefile.in
+grep '^generic/a\.\$(OBJEXT):' Makefile.in
Some day I'll add initial and trailing space to the target names of
all generated
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 07:17:49PM CEST:
I just want state explicitly that I'll wait until tomorrow
(or even the day after) to merge and push the patches we have
reviewed this afternoon, since the time for today is almost out,
and I don't want to do a push without
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 04:38:08PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:54:20PM CEST:
Ping on this? It seems to me that most issues with this patch
had already been solved, so it's probably
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 04:06:32PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
ok with it if you also add more meaningful descriptions to the
tests, say, the PR descriptions.
I'd love to do that (maybe as a separate patch to be applied *before
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 05:48:58PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 05:35:57PM CEST:
foo=`extract_makefile_deps tgt2 Makefile`; echo x$foox
More or less, yes. I'd avoid the command
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 05:35:57PM CEST:
I'm just saying that when we'll write the `extract_makefile_deps'
function, it shouldn't bother with preserving tabs and backslashes;
Well, it should deal with them correctly, yes.
on the other hand, it should actively
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:19:20PM CEST:
* tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:04:14PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:16:28PM CEST:
Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
* tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
* tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:53:21PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Fine with me. If you have all your patches in branches
Yes, a branch for every patch (series).
or otherwise ordered, you can also just wait until I'm done
reviewing
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 06:14:41PM CEST:
More testsuite tweakings. But this patch also contains some real
improvements and useful extensions IMO.
OK with nits below addressed. If I'm appearing too grumpy, then I'm
sorry about that, so let me tell you
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:22:00PM CEST:
Exactly! So:
foo() { foo_result=`sed ...`; }
foo; bar=$foo_result;
instead of:
foo() { sed ...; }
bar=`foo`
Where is the significant improvement?
Two forks vs. one: the latter still forks right before exec'ing sed.
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 03:35:11PM CEST:
Modernize, improve and extend tests `pr*.test'.
* tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
* tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
* tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
* tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
* tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
*
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:45:34PM CEST:
* tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
* tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
Makefile.in stricter.
OK for maint, thanks!
Ralf
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Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:07:20AM CEST:
At Wednesday 28 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
But even then, when developing Automake you will need to be extra
careful to never let autoconf be invoked
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 03:11:13PM CEST:
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
and I'm sorry there is such a high review delay.
Well, I assume this is not done on purpose (right? ;-), so don't worry.
That depends on how you interpret it, I guess
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:03:56AM CEST:
Darn, we need another name: 'archive' is likely too common when automake
is going to put all files with that name in the distribution of each
package using Automake. No need to send another patch, but any other
good suggestions
Here's the deal: At least two patch sets have been posted to Automake
mailing lists during the last year in order to improve Vala support in
Automake. We cannot take either because the authors couldn't complete
copyright assignments for reasons not further relevant to this message.
So here's a
Darn, we need another name: 'archive' is likely too common when automake
is going to put all files with that name in the distribution of each
package using Automake. No need to send another patch, but any other
good suggestions that fit in with the existing scripts?
I don't find arlib so bad,
* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:11:20PM CEST:
Please apply this on top of maint:
Thanks, done. You can make us even happier if you submit patches with
git format-patch $ref
where $ref is the starting point you're basing on. I don't care whether
you attach the files or send
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:50:46AM CEST:
Subject: [PATCH] Fixlets and minor improvements for HACKING.
* HACKING: Add some missing fullstops in sentences. Remove
some extra empty lines, for consistency.
(Test suite): Add pointer to `tests/README'.
Hello Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:40:15PM CEST:
The test `parallel-tests9.test' fails on Solaris 10 when using
/usr/xpg4/bin/make as $MAKE, due to a submake invocation returning
an exit status `139' (i.e. a Segmantation fault).
Thanks for the report. A
* Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:10:38AM CEST:
Den 2010-08-04 22:18 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
Now if you insist, then maybe we can just find another compromise name.
Please set $me to the name and use that throughout, so at least a change
is easily done. ;-)
I'm perfectly fine
* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 12:00:53AM CEST:
Den 2010-08-01 20:06 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
For actual applicability, it is sufficient if you provide a working
script, post testsuite results with it in place (you might want to
MAKE='make AR=...'
When I do
MAKE='make AR
Hi Peter,
thanks for your work on this!
* Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:14:28PM CEST:
Den 2010-08-01 20:06 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
Yes, in principle: when them bugs are fixed. Would you be willing to
rewrite the script so it
- has the blurb header similar to 'compile
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:04:29PM CEST:
On 08/04/2010 02:18 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
# strip leading dash in $action
case $action in
-*) action=${action#-} ;;
esac
The case statement is unnecessary, you can use just
action=${action#-}
Either way
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:10:10PM CEST:
At Sunday 01 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
So, here's the deal: currently, Automake has
RECURSIVE_TARGETS
RECURSIVE_CLEAN_TARGETS
AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS
Is there any good reason (apart from naybe
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:25:46PM CEST:
At Monday 02 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Also, I'd like to have a way to specify a recursive targers which
should recurse in a limited set of a projects' subdirectories,
and not in all of $(SUBDIRS). Do you
Hi Rainer,
* Rainer Tammer wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 02:34:45PM CEST:
I just tested automake-1.11.1 on AIX V7BETA.
All make check tests succeed but two. Here are the two failures.
I have also attached the complete test-suit.log.
thanks for the bug report. Both failures are new to me,
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