Re: Bug in latest install-sh

2005-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
efault behavior, so if this works, we might as well document it and fix install-sh accordingly. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcas

Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...

2006-03-28 Thread Eric Blake
ing shopt -s xpg_echo), both -e and -n should therefore be literal strings, not options. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~eri

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59c] testsuite: 75 78 89 102 failed

2006-04-18 Thread Eric Blake
TESTSUITEFLAGS. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Autoconf fails test 4 with m4-1.4.7a

2006-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
ference between M4 1.4.7 and the soon-to-be-released 1.4.8. If I get some time, I will look at patching autoconf test 4, but anyone else is welcome to beat me to it. -- Eric Blake

Re: Autoconf fails test 4 with m4-1.4.7a

2006-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
on was when the text was added to the wrap stack. It's just a matter of propagating that to all macro expansions. > > But current m4 goes only half-way, saying: > ONE on line 3 > TWO on line 5 > > I beleive that this is not worth the incompatibility hassle, and I &g

Re: Autoconf fails test 4 with m4-1.4.7a

2006-10-25 Thread Eric Blake
ith my latest patch. And CVS head will soon follow. http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=7000212&framed=y Thanks for the suggestion! -- Eric Blake

Re: Autoconf fails tests 24 and 26 with M4 branch-1_4 now

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
is expanded from... > +script.4s:7: baz is expanded from... Both of these are again line-number related. Now that the __line__ invoked under the hood by m4_defun in 1.4.7a tracks the location of the m4_defun's open (, rather than the location of the ), the solution is to collapse the test

Re: can't use m4-1.4.8 in Mingw in Windows XP

2006-11-22 Thread Eric Blake
NU_GETTEXT is expanded from... > configure.ac:32: the top level M4 1.4.8 does not use gettext. How are you picking up an instance of m4/gettext.m4? That should not be happening. > src/Makefile.am:14: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined Likewise - m4 1.4.8 does not

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 3 4 13 14 failed

2006-12-18 Thread Eric Blake
details on the cygwin list, since the wrapper is not maintained by this list. -- Eric Blake

Re: Building m4 on BSDI 4.0.1

2007-01-03 Thread Eric Blake
The best solution is for you to continue helping us improve gnulib's mbchar_.h so that it can work around your platform's broken wchar.h. Then things will just work out of the box for you, without you having to prime the cache. More in my followup to your other message. - -- Don&#

Re: Bug in gnulib-tools prevents bison from bootstrapping

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Blake
gnum4, and then m4, which also meets the minimum requirements of m4 1.4.5 or later. If you have suggestions for a better algorithm, we'd like to know about it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: Bug in gnulib-tools prevents bison from bootstrapping

2007-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [reviving an old thread, replies can probably drop bug-autoconf] According to Noah Misch on 6/23/2007 8:54 PM: >> On 23 Jun 2007, at 06:25, Eric Blake wrote: >>>> My system has a /usr/bison/m4 and a /usr/bin/gm4, but no >&

Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix

2007-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
e macro that enables as many platforms as possible, rather than having to add a macro for every new platform. As in AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. -- Eric Blake

Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix

2007-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Adding gnulib: this thread started at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5717] According to Eric Blake on 9/3/2007 4:50 PM: > Martin Koeppe gmx.de> writes: > > Hello Martin, > >> thanks for the link and

Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix

2007-09-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [replies can drop bug-autoconf] According to Martin Koeppe on 9/4/2007 10:01 AM: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> [Adding gnulib: this thread star

Re: error autoconf

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to werner on 9/12/2007 11:37 AM: Hi werner, Please keep replies on the list, so that others may chime in. > > On 12/Set/2007 10:11 Eric Blake wrote .. > > According to werner on 9/11/2007 6:02 AM: > >>>> bu

Re: bug while running flite-1.3 on an XP box under cygwin

2007-09-13 Thread Eric Blake
nfig.log file that deals with this failure. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mo

Re: Question

2007-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
e error becomes clearer if you look at the part of the config.log file that deals with this failure. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.c

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61] testsuite: 18 99 110 136 177 251 failed

2007-09-25 Thread Eric Blake
u determine anything further as to what went wrong? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: distributions build with autoconf are not re-locatable

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
dir defaults to '$(exec_prefix)/bin', so that it appears relative to --exec-prefix. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61b] testsuite: 156 158 failed

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/30/2007 11:53 AM: > > Hello, > > Hi Ralf, > > > > > one of the recent commits broke a couple of tests in the testsuite, > > namely the AC_F77_WRAPPERS and AC_FC_WRAPPERS te

Re: CPPUNIT: strstream bug for v1.9.14

2007-10-05 Thread Eric Blake
he config.log file that deals with this failure. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: U

Re: Please normalize command line paths

2007-10-05 Thread Eric Blake
that bug report only affected --prefix, and even then, didn't do it correctly in the presence of multiple slashes. I'm committing this to autoconf instead: 2007-10-05 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resolve Python issue 1676135 regarding configure directory args.

Re: Please normalize command line paths

2007-10-05 Thread Eric Blake
kslashes. I installed this: > > 2007-10-05 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Handle "///" > correctly. Thanks. But should we be using $as_expr, with a sed fallback, as in AS_BASENAME? - -- Don't w

Re: Autoconfig bug report

2007-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
find it's macros? Is this project using automake, in which case, did you use aclocal with the correct -I options? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Pub

Re: Autoconfig bug report

2007-10-12 Thread Eric Blake
e it works by using m4 to parse the literal arguments to AC_INIT without expansion, then replays exactly what it parsed. Since the argument is underquoted, m4 sees the giant string 'my_versionm4_if' rather than 'my_version[]m4_if'. The fix should be as simple as properly quoting, per

Re: Autoconfig bug report

2007-10-12 Thread Eric Blake
kes it sound like you probably don't need to run autoupdate; leave it to the package maintainers instead. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at

Re: configure warning for readline-5.0

2007-10-16 Thread Eric Blake
at the part of the config.log file that deals with this failure. As a side note, readline is now at 5.2; perhaps the bug has been fixed in the meantime. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: new AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS breaks Interix?

2007-10-19 Thread Eric Blake
seen similar errors, and the solution was a fresh bootstrap, including gnulib-tool --import. -- Eric Blake

Re: error m4_defn undefined macro

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Blake
they are unenforceable. Please consider using a different mail account when sending to lists. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comc

Re: problem

2007-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
he amount of response you will be given on a public list. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: U

Re: [Autoconf.in]Error 1:The system cannot find the path

2007-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
erl, and other programs are all available in a single project, and thus work together out of the box rather than requiring you to configure each tool separately. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Autoconf.in]Error 1:The system cannot find the path

2007-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
or to ./configure, not after make install. I'm not sure what you are really trying to accomplish here. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at hom

Re: bug gstreamer

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Blake
this in his package. The error becomes clearer if you look at the part of the config.log file that deals with this failure. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Co

[GNU Autoconf 2.61a.317-2b1c4] testsuite: 119 failed

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Blake
[]*=/{ +s/ ...: bad flag in substitute command: '#' stdout: config.status: creating file with funny \ ' \' $ & #!*? name - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: AC_FUNC_MEMMEM

2008-01-05 Thread Eric Blake
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - ht

Re: AC_FUNC_MEMMEM

2008-01-05 Thread Eric Blake
- -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://eni

Re: Handling of #undef FOO

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Blake
ime writing the patch myself, since none of the packages I maintain break the recommended rules of config.h handling. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Publ

Re: autoconf doesn't support spaces in directory names

2008-01-20 Thread Eric Blake
roblem with all released versions of autotools, and is likely to be a problem with various packages even when newer autotools are available. The workaround is to avoid directory names with spaces. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Lack of clarity in description of AC_CHECK_DECL(S)

2008-01-21 Thread Eric Blake
it is a list of #include directives. > Here's what I'm committing instead, hopefully making it more obvious what format the INCLUDES argument must take, by giving better cross-references to those defaults: From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:45:44 -

Re: Fwd: Re: zsh compilation problem with autoconf git

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
s. Your code will be easier to maintain if you don't have to add a new grep statement for every new autoconf release. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)

Re: [libtool 2.1b] testsuite: 16 54 55 56 failed

2008-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.

Re: Typo in manual: Generic Types

2008-02-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 2/5/2008 9:13 PM: | According to Reuben Thomas on 2/5/2008 7:17 PM: | | (From 2.61 manual) | | | | "a simple heuristics" should be "a simple heuristic" | | Thanks for the report. However, this was a

Re: Typo in manual: Generic Types

2008-02-05 Thread Eric Blake
eb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=db55e - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

[sr #106256] configure removed source file named a.h

2008-02-13 Thread Eric Blake
Update of sr #106256 (project autoconf): Status:None => Done ___ Follow-up Comment #1: This has already been fixed for the upcoming 2.62: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.gi

Re: Autoconf for net-snmp

2008-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
_node/Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled.html and then show that to the maintainer of net-snmp, who can fix this in his package. The error becomes clearer if you look at the part of the config.log file that deals with this failure. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Re: GCC 4.3 and AC_FUNC_MKTIME

2008-02-23 Thread Eric Blake
ed by autoconf 2.61, but that feels like a hack. Meanwhile, there are still some testsuite failures that need addressing before we can do a release. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: autoconf: library version comparsion fails

2008-02-25 Thread Eric Blake
ite a patch along those lines? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozill

Re: Bug: "possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR"

2008-03-03 Thread Eric Blake
me for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzFlS84KuGfSFAYARAhDsAJ9WkVCGXgEKroT

Re: bug-report: autoscan generating wrong macro call

2008-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
spotting that. I'm committing this: - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG wi

Re: testsuite generation on darwin broken

2008-03-20 Thread Eric Blake
in the future. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozil

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61] testsuite: 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 failed

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
ut perhaps someone else can chime in. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
ith opinions). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG w

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
plying the attached patch. | |> and now I remember I was responsible for that too: | |> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-03/msg00073.html But we failed to list you in THANKS back then :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [E

Re: fpurge.c, freadahead.c, freading.c make wrong assumption

2008-04-07 Thread Eric Blake
hacks necessary to work on various old machines. That's not to say that we plan on ignoring you, just that you should not hold your expectations too high. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61] testsuite: 17 86 113 114 116 117 119 120 121 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169

2008-04-08 Thread Eric Blake
ng to sort out some upload permissions); if you'd like an (off-list) copy of the 2.62 tarball to see if it does any better, let me know. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (

Re: fpurge.c, freadahead.c, freading.c make wrong assumption

2008-04-08 Thread Eric Blake
inst a patch would be how hard it is to maintain compared to the value that it adds. Please continue reporting issues and/or solutions for your platform, and again, accept my apologies if my comment came across too harshly. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.62] testsuite: 348 failed

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Blake
bug. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozil

Re: XCode 3.0, gcc and autoconf

2008-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
esoteric workarounds. | "error: cannot remove conftest.dSYM" The .dSYM directory droppings have been fixed as of Autoconf 2.62, released just this week. Please try upgrading and see if that resolves your concerns. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as we

Re: INSTALL should tell about particular systems

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Blake
. That seems like a reasonable idea to me. You have copyright on file; care to submit an actual patch against doc/install.texi? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwi

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
o with nice. Sounds nice to me (sorry, couldn't resist :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.g

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
2 Hmm - cygwin also has pdksh 5.2.14, but there, mknod is not builtin. At any rate, I was able to reproduce this with other builtins, so here's what I'm considering adding to autoconf. Any comments before I check it in? >From 53403805c39ace610782a1b54c257b00844f61fd Mon Sep 17 00:

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
xample - it is a POSIX-mandated utility, not on the special list of required utilities, but often implemented as a builtin; even if it is a builtin, this statement says it must also exist on PATH. > I'm looking at SUSv3, by the way. As am I. > > * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Apr

Re: fix for fugly autoconf 2.62 bug

2008-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
ain autoconf on a regular basis and don't want to |>> sign up on yet another mailing list, therefore I'm sending it to upstream |>> maintainer and you. :) |> i think the autoconf patches list is open ... or at least, you'll get |> moderated through |> -mike | I

Re: fix for fugly autoconf 2.62 bug

2008-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
s and friends. I'm not a fan of adding extra forks to configure unless we can prove that such a fix is necessary; I also wonder if your patch introduces any line length limitation bugs. Again, we need some context as to why you are reporting this as a bug. - -- Don't work too hard, ma

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigm

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
ether your version of autoconf when generating the tarball is newer than what they offer for stable development projects. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Commen

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
execution bug when abusing the -F option that was only fixed in 1.4.11. And guess what - autoconf uses the -F option (at least autoconf doesn't tickle the m4 bug in the normal use case of portable file names). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
desired usage pattern is restored in autoconf 2.63). | | Thanks. Thank you for the report. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
your use of autoconf (after all, once you decide to require a specific compiler of your users, what is left for configure to determine about portability?). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
would either stick with the minimum of 1.4.5 or probably go all the way to 1.4.11. -- Eric Blake

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
n that the cygwin distro will continue to ship older versions of your package until the distro's gcc version is updated, that motivated users will manually install the necessary prerequisites to self-compile the newer version without waiting on the distro, and hopefully that more people will be encouraged to contribute to the (ongoing) efforts of porting a newer gcc to the distro. -- Eric Blake

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
s, although I haven't come across a use case for one yet. So here's my proposed patch, which went with @{:@ and @:}@ for ( and ), written prior to reading your suggestion. Apart from the final spelling, does this patch look sufficient? Any other votes for the preferred spelling? &g

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > So here's my proposed patch, which went with @{:@ and @:}@ for ( and ), written > prior to reading your suggestion. Apart from the final spelling, does this > patch look sufficient? Any other votes for the preferred spelling? Plus th

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
and ")"), and add an example of portably balancing () for case statements (possibly in the portable shell programming section of the manual, instead of here in m4_expand). -- Eric Blake

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAR

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
t work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYF

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
ntroduction - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > Looks like it should work - in m4_expand, the () appear as balanced > parens, but in _m4_expand, they are embedded as part of the longer quote > strings. Thanks for the idea! However, I'd be a bit more comfortable > adjusting m4_expand and

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
Joel E. Denny ces.clemson.edu> writes: > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote: > > > | That's my suggestion as well... except the limitation is that the argument > > | must expand properly quoted. In the context of M4, this limitation seems > > | mo

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
on the user would never do that, but our move to awk in 2.62 rendered that magic string obsolete. -- Eric Blake

Re: autoconf-2.62: /usr/lib64 not considered "Standard dirs" in X detection

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
you first checked that this isn't a bug specific to emacs' specific additions to their configure.ac? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Publi

tracing output [was: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations]

2008-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
uotes if it were to be modified to track all quoting changes. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at hom

the need for qindir [was: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations]

2008-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
es in the output. Then you will have (in m4sugar quoting): m4_define([m4_qsubstr], [m4_qindir([m4_substr], $@)]) such that m4_define([b], [HI]) m4_substr([abc], [1], [1]) => HI m4_qsubstr([abc], [1], [1]) => b - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
eally looking for. Glad you agree :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG wi

Re: autoconf-2.62: /usr/lib64 not considered "Standard dirs" in X detection

2008-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
carry an emacs-specific patch for some time). Would you mind posting a proposed patch ported to the autoconf sources? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > I find it rarely pays to play the guessing game of "surely the user will > > never do *this*". Moreover, I'm betting that the user will never guess > > that this bizarre string is actually special to autotest. > >

Re: tracing output [was: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations]

2008-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > Perhaps we could add _m4_bpatsubst as a synonym for m4_bpatsubst, and use > _m4_bpatsubst anywhere that tracing is dangerous (_m4_split) and > m4_bpatsubst everywhere else. User code should not be calling > _m4_bpatsubst, as an undocumented i

Re: the need for qindir

2008-04-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Akim Demaille on 4/25/2008 4:11 AM: |>>> "EB" == Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | >> Something like a new primitive "eval and return quoted" would fill | >> the gap. | | &g

Re: tr portability

2008-04-26 Thread Eric Blake
on it myself. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG w

Re: tr portability

2008-04-26 Thread Eric Blake
ht; } | /usr/ucb/tr -d '\n' ; echo | moo | light | | $ { echo moon; echo light; } | /usr/bin/tr -d '\n' ; echo | moonlight | $ { echo moon; echo light; } | /usr/ucb/tr -d '\012' ; echo | moonlight Thanks. I've committed this: - -- Don't work too hard, make

Re: INSTALL should tell about particular systems, HP-UX cc

2008-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
the current AC_PROG_CC), and default AC_PROG_CC to use AC_PROG_CC_C89 instead. Then packages will default to requiring C89 unless explicitly requested otherwise. | | So what is hindering this patch from being applied? Lack of free time. :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time f

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make check' falls foul of MSYS bug

2008-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
r patch is sufficient, but I'll probably do something here in the next couple of days after thinking about it more. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Pub

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make install' fails if file system is case insensitive

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
more smoothly. Also, your ChangeLog summary took two lines, but git prefers a one-line summary, so I condensed it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Publi

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make check' falls foul of MSYS bug

2008-05-13 Thread Eric Blake
t. I've committed your patch: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=809b3e5 -- Eric Blake

Re: installation of autoconf 2.62

2008-05-15 Thread Eric Blake
1.4.11). I recommend sticking with cygwin's precompiled m4; it is much faster than 1.4.11 (ie it shaves seconds off the time to compile autoconf's testsuite). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: AS_IF and AC_ARG_VAR issue with 2.62

2008-05-20 Thread Eric Blake
S, which is not an autoconf macro, I can only guess that it too has underquoted arguments. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~eric

Re: AS_IF and AC_ARG_VAR issue with 2.62

2008-05-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 5/20/2008 8:59 PM: | But I don't see any mention of AS_IF or AC_ARG_VAR in your snippet (ie. | your subject line is inconsistent with your pasted example). Without | knowing the definition of PKG_WITH_MODULES, which i

Re: AS_IF and AC_ARG_VAR issue with 2.62

2008-05-21 Thread Eric Blake
een useful to see in the manual, let us know so we can add it for the benefit of future users. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comc

Re: Documentation flaw in autoconf

2008-05-31 Thread Eric Blake
sed. Where in the manual did you find that? The correct address should be 'bug-autoconf@gnu.org' and not bug-gnu-utils. I don't see the bug-gnu-utils anywhere in the 2.62 manual. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

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