Re: combined report for make check?

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/22/2013 12:09 AM, Karl Berry wrote: This would require to change the 'check-recursive' targets not to share the same code with the other '*-recursive' targets. I really don't want to go there. Totally reasonable :). The best solution is on the user-side IMHO: fix

Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[+cc bug-automake, so that we won't forget about the issue] [future replies should drop the automake list] On 01/22/2013 02:22 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: The best solution is on the user-side IMHO: fix the build system to use less (ideally

Re: combined report for make check?

2013-01-22 Thread Karl Berry
With a non-recursive, top level Makefile. Quick example: So, replace a nicely separated source setup with munging together the information about everything in one place? Thanks for the suggestion, but that seems like a major step backwards in maintainability to me, so I'll decline. Life

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-01-22 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-01-22 10:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote: [+cc bug-automake, so that we won't forget about the issue] [future replies should drop the automake list] On 01/22/2013 02:22 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: The best solution is on the user-side

bug#13436: 3 fails in make check

2013-01-22 Thread Johannes . Bieser
Finally I solved the problem: I had flex 2.5.37 installed locally (I have no admin rights) but the command 'lex' was still linked to the old flex 2.5.31 version. So I was using way too old versions of flex and bison and there is no bug in automake. Although it would be helpful if configure

bug#13520: Some documentation improvements for 'dist' targets opts (was Re: bug#13520: incomplete type of distribution in List of Automake options chapter)

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/21/2013 11:11 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: Hi automake developers, Current (2013-01-21) automake 1.13 manual http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html list quite short distribution types in chapter 17.2 List of Automake options. Actually, only 'dist-xz' wasn't mentioned.

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-01-22 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: E.g., if I have a directory foo that has sources etc, and builds some specific targets, then I can isolate the automake stuff for foo by using an include file foo/Makefile.am.inc or something, and then putting an appropriate include in the

Re: bug#13519: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (1.13), suggest non-existing URL for in two- and three-arguments deprecation message

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/21/2013 10:40 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: Hi automake developers, 1) defect Bootstrap of quite recent release of one project automake 1.13 produce following warning: ... #configure.ac:27: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated. For more info, see:

Some documentation improvements for 'dist' targets opts (was Re: bug#13520: incomplete type of distribution in List of Automake options chapter)

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/21/2013 11:11 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: Hi automake developers, Current (2013-01-21) automake 1.13 manual http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html list quite short distribution types in chapter 17.2 List of Automake options. Actually, only 'dist-xz' wasn't mentioned.

Re: [FYI] {branch-1.13.2} docs: '.txi' and '.texinfo' extensions are discouraged

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/22/2013 01:29 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: And future Automake versions will start warning about them (see commit 'v1.13.1-6-ge1ed314'). * doc/automake.texi (Txinfo): Adjust. * NEWS: Update. Scrap this, automake 1.13.2 will already give runtime warnings about uses of the '.txi' and