Re: [PATCH] {maint} distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS

2011-06-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:33:39PM CEST: > > On Thursday 02 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > Continuing with the good trend of avoiding to impinge on the user > > namespace, we should start supporting AM_DISTCHECK

Re: name of new pt-driver script

2011-06-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding the -patches list; sorry for appearing from the blue, the rest of the discussion really was not really ontopic ... ] [ about the TAP/subunit proposal ] * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 06:09:25PM CEST: > On Monday 13 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > So far the

Re: [REQUEST] Public temporary & rewindable branches for GSoC features

2011-06-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:55:02PM CEST: > Would be ok with you if in the future I create some temporary branches > *in the automake official repository* that I can rebase, edit, and delete > at will? I don't mind, as long as they are marked/documented as suc

[REQUEST] Public temporary & rewindable branches for GSoC features

2011-06-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Ralf. Would be ok with you if in the future I create some temporary branches *in the automake official repository* that I can rebase, edit, and delete at will? I think that keeping future unfinished or experimental work open and public could help speeding up the project advancement, and IMH

[PATCH] {testsuite-work} test defs: fix ksh-related portability bug in warning messages (was: Re: bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed)

2011-06-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[adding automake-patches, dropping bug-coreutils and bug-autoconf] On Tuesday 14 June 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > > From 67811abfda04dafdde114a50556f0e1d2e9b6270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:59:14 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] tests: accommodate HP-UX and

[PATCH] {maint} Deprecate de-ansification support, it should go away in automake 1.12

2011-06-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. I recall that we agreed, in an older thread I can't find anymore, that the support for the automatic de-ANSI-fication features should be removed in the next major Automake release (1.12). The attached patch, for maint, makes the first step in that direction, by deprecating the f

Re: bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed

2011-06-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[adding automake-patches on CC:] Reference to original thread(s), mostly duplicated: Reference to last relevant message there: