Hello Dan,
* Dan Kegel wrote on Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:06:39AM CEST:
Reviving
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-11/msg7.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-11/msg8.html
There is an argument for fixing AC_C_CONST: the way it breaks
caused
Hello Paul,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:35:37AM CEST:
On 06/19/11 12:01, Andy Wingo wrote:
No, this program also exhibits the same incorrect behavior, for purposes
of stack growth checking.
Thanks, I guess we'll have to turn it up a notch. How about the
following test
Hello Philipp,
* Philipp Thomas wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:20:31PM CEST:
Environment:
openSUSE 11.4
autoconf 2.68
automake 1.11.1
The part below in configure.ac of gcal 3.6 is failing
Please describe and show how it is failing, also by copy-n-pasting
the
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* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:24:28AM CET:
So, can we just quote the argument so it's not detected by m4?
me_quoted=`echo $me | sed 's,..,@\t@,g'`
echo AC_INIT([$me_quoted], [1.0])
Hmm, this avoids an error, but also sets several things wrong
that the user has
explicitly set by setting the M4 environment variable.
It seems like a bug in AC_MSG_ERROR that I cannot use a comma in
the message, with the current amount of quoting.
Thanks,
Ralf
2011-02-26 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com
Hello,
* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:50:32AM CET:
Unless I did it wrong (entirely possible) -
76d1c49b8056aaf3f1046ba19c6dea6eb6aecb78 is the first bad commit -
I can confirm the issue, but my bisect ended at
5e763da323f3927159b6c151f186569a9929ddbe instead.
(You need to
Hello,
* Hans Aberg wrote on Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:13:45PM CET:
aclocal doesn't understand -B, so autoreconf doesn't pass it on to
aclocal (although getting aclocal to learn -B needs to be resolved on
the automake list first before we worry about teaching autoreconf in the
autoconf
that it
doesn't fail with this compiler.
Cheers,
Ralf
2011-02-12 Giulio Paci giuliop...@interfree.it (tiny change)
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de
Fix detection of link flags for fort77 on GNU/Linux.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Properly
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* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:16:22PM CET:
bash 2.05 doesn't dump core on unset, but
suffered from the same problem still in NetBSD /bin/sh in setting $?
incorrectly (which in turn affects set -e). The core dump was bash
2.01, and affected
* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 02:41:39PM CET:
On 01/22/2011 01:30 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
@prindex @command{unset}
-In some nonconforming shells (e.g., Bash 2.05a), @code{unset FOO} fails
-when @code{FOO} is not set. You can use
+In some nonconforming shells (e.g
[ replacing automake-patches with autoconf-patches ]
tying up another loose end:
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 07:22:24AM CET:
Hmpf. Nowadays AM_CYGWIN just expands to AC_CYGWIN, which causes
$CYGWIN to be set. The latter is probably a bad idea for other reasons
(Cygwin
Hello Donn,
* Donn Washburn wrote on Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:01:06AM CET:
There appears to be a problem with 2.68 and maybe others. It 100%
misses ${exec-prefix} (fails).
Try ${exec_prefix}.
Cheers,
Ralf
As part of addressing Automake bug#7766 and bug#7773, I'm pushing the
following in Karl's name, to the maint branch.
Cheers,
Ralf
2011-01-08 Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com
docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
*
[ adding autoconf-patches, dropping the Automake bug ]
* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:33:42AM CET:
I also agree that the autoconf manual should mention the gnulib
'configmake' module (it doesn't, yet).
Proposed patch. OK to push?
I didn't find a place in the gnulib manual
Hi Matthias,
long time no see!
* Matthias Andree wrote on Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:28:35PM CET:
I've recently added LT_INIT([disable-static]) to openvpn, and figured
that autoreconf will run aclocal -I m4 first, and only then libtoolize.
I find this is the wrong order, because libtoolize may
Hi Ben,
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:47:21PM CET:
../../tests/add-files.at:108: pspp -O format=csv save-a.sps
That is, it makes it look as though add-files.at is directly
inside tests/. Instead, it would be better if it would write the
full correct path:
Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:58:23AM CET:
And, does anyone mind if I remove the @acronym commands from
install.texi, per our too-long prior discussion?
FWIW, I don't mind, but please do it in upstream Autoconf.
I don't currently have write
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Hi Karl, and a happy new year everyone!
* Karl Berry wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:17:21AM CET:
Thanks. Those are probably worth excluding manually.
Let's hear what Karl has to say.
Excluding INSTALL* and install.texi
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:21:48AM CET:
The automake manual states that the cygwin mode requires the macro
AM_CYGWIN32,
but this is not true anymore since at least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064
merged changes from Cygnus of 1997-08-25 (yep!); also, the
* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51:32PM CET:
Why does autoconf not support --lispdir automatically? That is the one
case in make-stds.texi that has to call out that the user has to do an
AC_SUBST; should we patch autoconf to automatically support lispdir
alongside all the
Hello Giulio,
* Giulio Paci wrote on Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 03:02:05PM CET:
Here is a patch to fix the issue in fortran.m4.
I hope you'll find it useful.
Thanks for the patch. I have a nit, see the inline comment below.
Can you run the Autoconf test suite with and without this patch applied?
Hello Paul,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:07:52PM CET:
I pushed the following patch; could you please give it a try?
I don't have an OSX host to test it on. Thanks.
From 531b8a416b6ae40f89808e1db8976eb25972e661 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:11:46PM CET:
On 11/14/2010 10:24 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
* tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
pattern, to avoid skipping tests
Hello Reuben,
* Reuben Thomas wrote on Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:24:01PM CET:
The I author of the manual, I presume David MacKenzie, is not
actually mentioned (any more?) in the manual.
Perhaps the best solution would be to add his name to the history
section, and then remove the use of the
Hello Jay,
* Jay K wrote on Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 06:02:54PM CET:
jkr...@current9s :~ echo int main(){} 1.c
jkr...@current9s :~ /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/g++ 1.c
jkr...@current9s :~ ./a.out
ld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libstdc++.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed
now, this is some
Hello Jan,
* Jan Hubicka wrote on Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:39:07PM CEST:
AC_CHECK_FUNC produce test like the following:
char pstat_getstatic ();
char (*f) () = pstat_getstatic;
int
main ()
{
return f != pstat_getstatic;
}
Not since Autoconf 2.60 or newer, see
Hello Daniel,
* daniel.ja...@diehl-bgt-defence.de wrote on Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:22:23AM
CEST:
please find in the attachment the file you asked for.
(See attached file: testsuite.log)
Quoting from that file:
configure:2007: g++ -o conftestconftest.cpp 5
configure:2011: $? = 0
Hello Ralf,
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:30:54PM CEST:
Several, but I don't have any real testsuites results, yet, because
the testsuite still hasn't completed, yet.
Typing the failed ons off from the terminal:
38
40
81
101
147
166
183
195
202
No further
Hi Eric, and thanks for dealing with this,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:31:56PM CEST:
As for the failures on 199 and 205, those are most likely related to
known shortcomings in the testsuite when it comes to trying to test
parallel autotest, rather than actual flaws in
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:33:01PM CEST:
On 09/23/2010 03:52 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 09/23/2010 06:56 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I am facing a new issue/regression with autoconf-2.68:
That is not a regression, but a feature.
Your feature is my regression - It broke
Hi Scott,
* scott mc wrote on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:41:30PM CEST:
This was on Haiku, gcc2 build, r38734,IIRC this is similar to the
results for autoconf 2.67 on Haiku.
Thanks for the bug report. Can you try this patch to see whether it
fixes the failures of 261 and 262 for you?
It should
Hello Ralf,
thanks for the bug report.
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:31:47AM CEST:
autoconf-2.68's testsuite deterministically fails for me in test 205
for a variety of OSes:
...
205: parallel autotest and signal handling FAILED
(autotest.at:1617)
Yeah, it's
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:36:00PM CEST:
On 09/20/2010 02:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Hmm, reading lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm is proving to be enlightening:
Maybe the solution is just to teach autom4te that warning outputs
consist of partial messages.
Does this
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:10:14PM CEST:
On 09/20/2010 02:59 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Since my perl is weak, are there any
suggestions on more robust ways to express this action?
Searching for newlines in the first regex? You want it to be partial
exactly if you print
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:37:01PM CEST:
+ * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V): Ignore leading and
+ trailing single and double quotes, as a last ditch effort.
--- i/lib/autoconf/fortran.m4
+++ w/lib/autoconf/fortran.m4
@@ -566,6 +566,11 @@ for
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:15:13PM CEST:
On 09/15/2010 04:37 AM, langdead wrote:
Whether does ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS= -I @path only work for Makefile.am?
In the context of autoreconf (the only part of the equation
belonging to autoconf), we merely call aclocal without
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:11:17PM CEST:
At any rate, it seems like maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in
Makefile.am is redundant
For simple setups, yes. How common are non-simple setups? I don't know
for sure, but I would guess any package with more than a couple of
configure
Runtime checks without cache guard are suspicious, in that they may not
allow an override from the user. I'm not sure if they are suspicious
enough to warrant a warning from autoconf, which I guess could be
implemented similarly to the recent AC_LANG_CONFTEST warning. Such a
warning would
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* Mats Erik Andersson wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:19:08AM CEST:
The quick punch lines first:
* utmp.h is __NOT__ self-contained, neither for OpenBSD, nor FreeBSD.
* libutil.h is __NOT__ self-contained for FreeBSD.
In contrast,
* util.h __is__
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:12:48AM CEST:
$ /bin/sh -c 'alias 2/dev/null'
alias: Not found
$ /bin/sh -c '(alias) 2/dev/null'
$ /bin/sh -c 'exec 32; exec 2/dev/null; unalias echo; exec 23;
exec 3-'
$
the indirect redirection of stderr prior to attempting the unfound
* Yavor Doganov wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:10:49PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Let's use a specific example:
AC_INIT([Pkg], [1.0], [bug], [pkg], [website])
Do you think that 'autoconf-2.63 -Wall -Werror' should have errored out
for the website argument?
Of course
* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:20:31PM CEST:
This bug was reported against AIX 5.3, and IBM will continue to support
5.3 until next year (see
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/ibm_aix_7_1/),
so perhaps someone who has access to an old 5.3 box can tell us whether
the bug
* Rainer Tammer wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:02:55PM CEST:
On 14.08.2010 09:34, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 09:55:13AM CEST:
The least radical step would be to just modify the test group to accept
any kind of exit status and if wrongly zero
Hello George,
* George Spencer wrote on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:10:38AM CEST:
I ran make check for autoconf-2.67 and received a message requesting
that I send the testsuite.log to you. This is enclosed. The machine the
testsuite was being compiled on was using AIX 5.3 TL 9. Some details
from
tags + upstream
thanks
[ http://bugs.debian.org/593838 ]
Hi Jerome,
* Jerome BENOIT wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:58:28PM CEST:
Version: 2.67-2
AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION(-std=c99)
produces a boggus configure script.
Confirmed with upstream git Autoconf:
cat configure.ac \END
AC_INIT
clone 592892 -1
reassign -1 autoconf
retitle -1 AS_VAR_GET regression
tags -1 + upstream
thanks
[ http://bugs.debian.org/592892 ]
If I got above right, then I'm cloning this bug for Autoconf and
marking it as upstream bug; adding bug-autoconf in Cc:.
* Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote on Wed,
* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:28:33PM CEST:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 21:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Whatever we do, NEWS needs a big warning note.
Why? It's just namespace pollution, which has always been there.
* Libtool configure macros do not use nor set the variables
I'm seeing a couple of testsuite failures on MSYS: 'Input from stdin'
and 'AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS, and COMMANDS'. Both fail due to
issues with redirection of stdin.
It's interesting to note that running
echo hello | ./micro-suite
on the command line in the former test causes
Hello,
* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:05:40PM CEST:
In order to avoid rewriting your makefiles, just do
AC_SUBST([ECHO], [echo])
for the time being.
I don't think that works currently. Libtool sets $ECHO early in
configure and uses that when writing config.status. When
Hello Randall,
* Randall Cotton wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:16:57PM CEST:
[AS_IF([test x$$1 = x$2], [$3], [$4])],
...here
AS_IF([test x$as_val = x$2], [$3], [$4])])])
...AND here
It seems likely that x$2 was meant to be x$2.
No, this
Hello Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:49:29PM CEST:
On 08/05/2010 02:08 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote:
Seen while bootstrapping GNOME with 2.67:
autoconf
configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-foo
Thanks
Hi Luke,
thanks for the bug report.
* Luke Dalessandro wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:51:25PM CEST:
Not sure if it's my environment causing this trouble.
Only in the sense that the Autoconf testsuite isn't sufficiently
prepared to deal with it:
| autom4te: $LOCAL/m4-1.4.6/bin/m4-1.4.6
* Rainer Tammer wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:34:42AM CEST:
On 01.08.2010 18:58, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Rainer Tammer wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 05:09:01PM CEST:
this are the failures of autoconf 2.67 make check on AIX V7BETA:
213: AC_CACHE_CHECK FAILED (base.at:478)
This one
Adding Scott in Cc:, he reported the same issue for Haiku:
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:54:27PM CEST:
[...]
after running this test:
AT_CHECK([($CONFIG_SHELL ./micro-suite -d -3 5-; echo $? status) | sed 5q],
trying (and failing) to solicit a SIGPIPE.
1: test number
[ adding bug-gnulib ]
* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:11:47AM CEST:
So gnulib could have --enable-c++.
I guess I missed some discussion on bug-gnulib. Overall, cplusplus
seems like it would have been simpler/more customary. (That ++ causes
endless hassle everywhere.)
Hi Bob,
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:36:02PM CEST:
Several tests unexpectedly failed under Solaris 10. The
tests/testsuite.log is attached.
thanks for the report. Here's the first failure:
| 246. torture.at:1708: testing Non-literal AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS ...
|
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:44:09PM CEST:
On 08/04/2010 01:08 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
-# We cannot assume aclocal won't warn (aclocal-1.9 does not understand -W*
-# options), so check autoconf only.
-AT_CHECK([autoconf --force -Wno-syntax], 0, [ignore
Update of sr #107444 (project autoconf):
Status:None = Need Info
___
Follow-up Comment #2:
Please report this to the dash maintainer, as Posix requires parameter
expansion to occur for
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #107447 (project autoconf):
See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/13133/focus=13153
___
Reply to this item at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?107447
Hi Scott,
thanks for the test feedback.
* scott mc wrote on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:22:55PM CEST:
[Moderator Note: The original message was very large at 203803 bytes.
I gzip'd the log files down to 16K and 18K, re-attached the files and
re-mailed the message. --Bob Proulx]
thanks Bob!
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 06:31:54PM CEST:
Quick question: we document
-- Macro: AT_BANNER (TEST-CATEGORY-NAME)
This macro identifies the start of a category of related test
groups. When the resulting `testsuite' is invoked with more than
one test
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:07:41PM CEST:
On 08/02/2010 01:18 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
group to run, its output will include a banner containing
@var{test-category-name} prior to any tests run from that category. The
banner should be no more than about 40
Hi Rainer,
* Rainer Tammer wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 05:09:01PM CEST:
this are the failures of autoconf 2.67 make check on AIX V7BETA:
213: AC_CACHE_CHECK FAILED (base.at:478)
240: Signal handling FAILED (torture.at:1263)
I have included the testsuite.log for a
* Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:00:21AM CEST:
Autoconf 2.66 added '+' to the set of allowed characters in --enable-*
Why?
So gnulib could have --enable-c++.
So, my question is: could standards.texi document the set of allowed
characters?
Can you make a
* Rainer Tammer wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:08:55PM CEST:
I have checked 2.67 and the problem is still present:
213: AC_CACHE_CHECK FAILED (base.at:478)
This is
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/7328,
I am no further there yet,
Quick question: we document
-- Macro: AT_BANNER (TEST-CATEGORY-NAME)
This macro identifies the start of a category of related test
groups. When the resulting `testsuite' is invoked with more than
one test group to run, its output will include a banner containing
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 06:57:27PM CEST:
Ralf thinks [2] that one should not warn about this, and instead
only provide good documentation.
Thanks for sticking up!
If we can add a warning without significant false positives, that would
be good. It's just that it
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:51:34PM CEST:
On 07/20/2010 10:21 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) Fifo job dispatcher: Remove
commented closing of job output fd. In serial test group driver,
ensure $at_jobs is set to 1, so other parts
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:22:15PM CEST:
On 07/21/2010 12:06 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
But maybe we want to do a global:
for i in 3 4 5 6 7; do
eval exec $i-
done
(why not just exec 5- 6- 7-?)
Easier to extend if we wanted to clear out to fd 63 or some
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:14:42PM CEST:
It turns out that this line (in both tests):
gcc -E -dD -o - conftest.c || AS_EXIT([77])
is not portable to cygwin, where gcc currently compiles ./-.exe rather
than outputting to stdout. Do we really need the '-o -' in
Hi Russ,
* Russ Allbery wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:41:41PM CEST:
So, in short, it would be very nice if there were some way to force
Autoconf to use absolute paths when substituting paths to scripts in the
aux directory into generated files. Is there any chance that Autoconf
could add
2010-07-20 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de
autotest: use one-byte tokens for more reliable job control.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_JOB_FIFO_FD): Pass a single
newline.
Suggested by Paul Eggert, bug report by Eric Blake.
diff --git a/lib/autotest
I don't get it, esp. I don't get why I haven't seen this anywhere
before. This is with bash 3.2.39 on Debian GNU/Linux x86. Can anyone
confirm this failure? Otherwise I guess I should go looking for weird
stuff in my setup.
Anyway, rerunning
./micro-suite -x 1 FROB=default FROB_ARG=
in the
Hi Scott,
thanks for the bug report.
* scott mc wrote on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:42:24PM CEST:
I added autoconf-2.66 to Haiku (http://dev.haiku-os.org/changeset/37438) but
we then found that it wasn't able to build pkgconfig due to a suspected
regression in AC_CHECK_SIZEOF:
Hi Bruno, Eric,
thanks for the bug reports.
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 02:51:21AM CEST:
But there's another, similar regression in AC_INIT:
= configure.ac
AC_INIT([GNU CLISP], [2.48++ (2010-07-03)],
Hi Pascal,
* Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:42:07AM CEST:
Several conftests hang (AFAICT, they're mostly related to signals).
Here are two of them with their strace.
On:
Linux kuiper 2.6.34-gentoo-c2 #5 SMP Sat Jun 26 05:12:46 CEST 2010 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7
Tru64/OSF 5.1D fails the AC_C_RESTRICT and C++ test, when using the
vendor C and C++ compiler:
265. c.at:266: testing AC_C_RESTRICT and C++ ...
../../autoconf/tests/c.at:316: autoconf
../../autoconf/tests/c.at:317: autoheader
../../autoconf/tests/c.at:318: ./configure $configure_options
stderr:
Hello bug-texinfo readers,
with makeinfo 4.13, the following texinfo code snippet from Autoconf:
@macro dvar{varname, default}
@r...@var{\varname\} = @samp{\defaul...@r{]}@c
@end macro
@defmac m4_split (@var{string}, @dvar{regexp, [\t ]+})
...
@end defmac
is missing the backslash
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:30:46PM CEST:
Any other ideas for a workaround that works for both info and pdf?
Not using macros here?
Cheers,
Ralf
Avoid texinfo bug with backslashes in macro arguments.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros)
(Common Shell
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* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 04:03:47PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues writes:
* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:42:13PM CEST:
My question about a basename declaration in the system header was a
genuine question. My concern
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:26:49AM CEST:
I'm not the automake maintainer.
But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest
gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about you,
the user, or you, the developer.
By the way, if one person states
gettext-tools/libgettextpo/ChangeLog:
2010-05-26 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de
* Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add subdir-objects.
(libgettextpo_la_CPPFLAGS): New variable, to force renamed objects.
diff --git a/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am
b/gettext-tools
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:11:45AM CEST:
I see a few possible alternative ways out:
- Automake requires subdir-objects if you put slashes into $LIBOBJS,
There are cases where the developer does not want 'subdir-objects'.
I'm having the problem with AC_LIBOBJ in the
Hello Jimmy,
* Jimmy Kyriannis wrote on Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:52:59PM CEST:
Attached please find a bug report for autoconf v2.65 on FreeBSD v6.2, with
some additional information below.
wa1% uname -a
FreeBSD wa1 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007
tags +upstream
thanks
Hello Jens,
this is clearly an upstream bug. Adding bug-autoconf.
* Jens Seidel wrote on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:30:55PM CEST:
AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
AC_CHECK_DECL(std::setlocale, [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_SETLOCALE], [], [Define if
setlocale is available in clocale])], , [#include
Hello Frank,
* frank.pie...@bigstring.com wrote on Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:34:38PM CEST:
I did try to make an autoconf-installation from source.
I did fail because of I need autoconf to make autoconf.
this used to be different; the (at the time) CVS tree of Autoconf used
to also have the files
* Daniel Richman wrote on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:36:18PM CET:
On 3/19/10 11:50 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Daniel Richman wrote on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:01:42AM CET:
I just compiled Autoconf 2.65 on Mac OS X 10.5 w/ Apple's gcc-4.2.1.
All tests are fine except #217 (Substitute and define
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:49:54PM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Those semantics already have users out there, though. For example GCC
relies on --disable-libstdc___v3, so this would be an incompatible
change.
OK, the name of the variable is not important to me
Hello,
thanks for the report. See below for questions.
* atw-...@gmx.net wrote on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:03:30PM CET:
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.24.5-smp
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #2 SMP Wed Apr 30 13:41:38 CDT 2008
[...]
74. m4sh.at:250: testing ...
./m4sh.at:287: autom4te
[ adding bug-autoconf ]
Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:22:15AM CET:
It seems wrong to use @acronym{GNU} three times in the @copying text,
when it isn't used in many more places -- including one other place in
@copying.
Yep, it's definitely used inconsistently.
Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:27:10PM CET:
AC_ARG_ENABLE is documented to accept options only consisting of
alphanumeric characters, dashes, and dots. I would like to write
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to use C++])
AC_ARG_ENABLE([c++],
[ --disable-c++
* Gene Spafford wrote on Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:45:11AM CET:
Actually, I had something like that in place, but found an old (very
old) debugging statement that was putting out a single space. Once
fixed, those problems went away.
Good.
I have built or tried to build the following 4
Hello Václav,
thanks for the bug report.
* v.hais...@sh.cvut.cz wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:33:38PM CET:
I am reporting the results of make check run for autoconf-2.65 on my FreeBSD
7.2 box. testsuite.dir tar ball is attached, if it does not make it through,
it is also available as on
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:12:00PM CET:
I can reproduce these two failures on FreeBSD 6.4 (i386):
35. tools.at:1174: testing ...
../../tests/tools.at:1191: : sub/some-file exit 77
stderr:
/home/users/wilx/tmp/autoconf-2.65/objdir/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups
* Gene Spafford wrote on Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 03:37:42AM CET:
I use ksh
As part of the .profile, it runs the terminal reset sequence each login
I don't see this as bad behavior
The ,kshrc file sets the prompt and does no other output.
I don't see either of these as setting up a bad
Hello Gene,
let's keep the mailing list in CC:, thanks.
* Gene Spafford wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:15:07PM CET:
On Feb 25, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Gene Spafford wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:56:24PM CET:
[...]
229. torture.at:1549: testing ...
./torture.at
Hello Niels,
* Niels Lohmann wrote on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 08:19:31AM CET:
The @ inside the address should not cause any problems.
indeed, it's not. When I use m4_define for the bug address, then I get
the same error for AT_PACKAGE_STRING.
Please check
again and provide us with
Hello Albert,
* Albert Li wrote on Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:21:17PM CET:
[...]
Failed tests:
[...]
33: tools.at:1097 autoupdating with aclocal and m4_include
34: tools.at:1127 autom4te preselections
225: torture.at:1225Configuring subdirectories
autoreconf
226:
Hello Niels,
* Niels Lohmann wrote on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:14:22AM CET:
But say, why don't you just use simple shell variables instead?
tests/package.m4.in:
WGET='@WGET@'
That would strike me as a more natural approach.
that is, of course, a much better idea. I used
Hello Niels,
* Niels Lohmann wrote on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:50:10AM CET:
we have a project where we use the configure script to search for some
helper tools and write the paths to the package.m4 for the autotest
test suite. We do this with
configure.ac:
AC_PATH_PROGS(WGET, [wget],
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