Re: makeinfo build failure on 5c55fb1f

2008-03-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: A minor problem caused in commit 5c55fb1f. Oops! Wrong list. Sorry about the noise. Ignore this here. You will see it there! Bob

Re: failure in colorful tests

2007-11-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Agreed. Thanks. I've applied the patch below. Thanks! HP-UX 10.20 - - + HP-UX 11.23 - - + This really confused me because I was getting color. So I went back and looked at things closely and I realized why. Quite some years ago I

Re: signal handling

2007-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Ahh. More head scratching. I'd appreciate if somebody could look over these two proposed patches to see if what I think how signals ought to work makes sense. This one I think is the opposite of what it needs to be. +trap '' $signal I think that should be trap -

Re: failure in colorful tests

2007-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: +case $TERM in +dumb) exit 77;; +esac ... Thanks! Do we need to guard against other TERM settings, too? Hmm... I was thinking more along the lines of this patch instead. I don't think the test should be skipped. I think it should be made independent of the invoking

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: - with TERM=vt100, on my GNU/Linux system there are still colors generated by tput, so I did not use that TERM setting, That is discouraging. The vt100 does not support color and tput should not produce escape sequences for it. I believe that would indicate a bug in

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Please CC me since I don't normally read automake-patches. Thanks. Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Does anybody know how to test that colorful output actually happens? Since the colorful output of check.mk now uses 'tput' and 'tput' uses TERM, it should be sufficient to force TERM and then test the