bug#8945: tar-ustar as a default for automake

2011-06-27 Thread Javier Jardón
Hello, as discussed in this thread [1], i'd like to proposse switch to tar-ustar (seems that tar-pax support is broken in openbsd) as a default tar format. Currently we have some problem in GNOME project with some modules because the limitations of the current tar format. Best regards. [1]

Re: [FYI] New public temporary branch, about documentation for custom test drivers

2011-06-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 02:20:48PM CEST: I've pushed the documentation work I've done so far to the temporary public branch GSoC/experimental/docs-custom-test-drivers, in case anyone wants to take a look at it (I had hoped to finish it this morning, but I

Re: [PATCH] docs: avoid a footnote, some related rewordings and improvements (was: Re: [Automake-commit] [SCM] GNU Automake branch, maint, updated. v1.11-393-gc1040a7)

2011-06-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:33:41PM CEST: On Thursday 23 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Footnotes are hard to read and distract the flow, esp. in an info file. Sorry, I never use info(1) directly (never bothered to learn it actually); Actually, I had been

Re: [FYI] {parallel-tests-maint} docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore

2011-06-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:32:53AM CEST: Subject: [PATCH] Revert docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore This reverts commit a9eef973b5ea47cc3495f1a8307d4f7b85aea46f. It turned out that the current work to introduce TAP and SubUnit support in

Re: [FYI] New public temporary branch, about documentation for custom test drivers

2011-06-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Monday 27 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Stefano, Hi Ralf, thanks for the review. * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 02:20:48PM CEST: I've pushed the documentation work I've done so far to the temporary public branch GSoC/experimental/docs-custom-test-drivers, in

Re: [FYI] {parallel-tests-maint} docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore

2011-06-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Monday 27 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:32:53AM CEST: Subject: [PATCH] Revert docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore This reverts commit a9eef973b5ea47cc3495f1a8307d4f7b85aea46f. It turned out that the current work

Re: [FYI] New public temporary branch, about documentation for custom test drivers

2011-06-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Monday 27 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On Monday 27 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Attached is the squash-in with the fixes you suggested. I hope to be soon able to finish up this part of the documentation; I'll post and additional squash-in when I'm done. OK the

Re: [FYI] New public temporary branch, about documentation for custom test drivers

2011-06-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Monday 27 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Attached is the squash-in with the fixes you suggested. I hope to be soon able to finish up this part of the documentation; I'll post and additional squash-in when I'm done. OK the documentation is basically complete now (it still lacks a

Re: [PATCH] docs: avoid a footnote, some related rewordings and improvements (was: Re: [Automake-commit] [SCM] GNU Automake branch, maint, updated. v1.11-393-gc1040a7)

2011-06-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:35:23PM CEST: On Monday 27 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: +@c The following example should be covered by the test case +@c 'autodist-config-headers.test'. @c The following example is covered by autodist-config-headers.test.

Re: [FYI] New public temporary branch, about documentation for custom test drivers

2011-06-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 01:11:51PM CEST: On Monday 27 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 02:20:48PM CEST: +The @code{AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT} and @code{TESTS_ENVIRONMENT} variables can +be used to run

Re: [FYI] {parallel-tests-maint} docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore

2011-06-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:48:58PM CEST: On Monday 27 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:32:53AM CEST: Subject: [PATCH] Revert docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore This reverts commit

Re: Source files in different directory?

2011-06-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Paul, * Paul Elliott wrote on Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:05:54PM CEST: I need to keep my source files (i.e. .c and .h ) in a different directory tree from the one that contains the autotools control files and the build directory. That's supported by default: see info Automake VPATH