bug#9768: Makefile broken after removing included *.am file

2011-10-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:20:05AM CEST: On Sunday 16 October 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: What happens if I write include fragment-with-typo-in-name.am but I want that fragment included? I fear I cannot parse this question... Do you mean that you want

bug#9768: Makefile broken after removing included *.am file

2011-10-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:27:12PM CEST: On Sunday 15 November 2009, Peter Johansson wrote: make: *** No rule to make target `aminclude.am', needed by `Makefile.in'. Stop. This is very similar to the deleted header file problem for *.m4 files that

bug#9080: config.guess of automake not up to date (AIX 7.1)

2011-07-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Christian Volkmann wrote on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:28:23PM CEST: config.guess of the automake package does not detect AIX 7.1. It detects rs6000-ibm-aix instead of powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0 Please update this file for the next automake release, I've ran make fetch in maint and merged in

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, allow me a couple of ranty comments: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:58:01AM CEST: I'd rather deprecate the JAVA primary, and then introduce a new `JARS' primary, to be used e.g. as follows: First off, we've _never_ removed support for a primary, and I don't think

bug#8969: improve synchronization between examples in the manual and test cases

2011-07-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:59:53AM CEST: Subject: [PATCH] docs, tests: synchronize examples from docs to tests * tests/README (Writing test cases): Give suggestions on how to keep test cases and examples in the documentation synchronized. * doc/automake.texi:

bug#8921: side stepping automake limitations with custom dependencies

2011-06-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Mike, * Mike Frysinger wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:07:30AM CEST: ah blah, i meant autom...@gnu.org. i dont know how to close bugs with this e- mail system, so if someone could do that for me, that'd be cool ... Write to BUG-done@... Done. ;-) Cheers, Ralf

bug#8718: error when using nested conditionals

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:47:35AM CEST: * Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:42:51PM CEST: AM_CONDITIONAL([USE_VARIANT_A], [$use_variant_a]) Instead of this line, you could use AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE([AM_CONDITIONAL([...])]) I cannot

bug#8718: error when using nested conditionals

2011-06-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:42:51PM CEST: AM_CONDITIONAL([USE_VARIANT_A], [$use_variant_a]) Instead of this line, you could use AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE([AM_CONDITIONAL([...])]) I cannot force the gnulib users to write autoconf macros which deviate that much

bug#8635: Some Fortran files don't have the extensions automake wants

2011-05-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:11:53PM CEST: --- a/automake.in +++ b/automake.in @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ register_language ('name' = 'f77', 'lder' = 'F77LD', 'ld' = '$(F77)', 'pure' = 1, -'extensions' =

bug#8526: [GNU Bison 2.4.588-2f658] testsuite: 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 141 149 185 186 188 189 190 191 195 247 250 287 289 291 293 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 304 305 306 307 310 311 failed

2011-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Jim Meyering wrote on Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:43:46PM CEST: [TL;DR using automake.git, bison.git fails make distchecks non-srcdir build] /bin/sh ../build-aux/ylwrap ../src/scan-skel.l lex.yy.c src/scan-skel.c -- flex /w/bison/bison-2.4.593-a78a/_build/tests/bison: line 11:

bug#8508: 8 test failures on Fedora 15

2011-04-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:59:33AM CEST: Subject: [PATCH] depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'. Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name. Thanks. Merged from the 'fix-depcomp' branch into

bug#8483: missing serial number in soem automake-provided m4 files

2011-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:43:36AM CEST: I've recently noticed that some *.m4 files in the Automake distribution lack a serial number: $ cd ~/src/automake $ grep -L '# *serial' m4/*.m4 m4/amversion.m4 m4/auxdir.m4 m4/gcj.m4 m4/install-sh.m4

bug#8473: depcomp bug with HP-UX cc and VPATH build

2011-04-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 02:44:48AM CEST: The dependencies mechanism of Automake leads to a compilation failure when used in a VPATH build (with GNU make, of course) Actually, in this case you could have avoided this particular bug by using HP make. :-p Automake

bug#8434: java: cannot use JAVA with both dist_ and nodist_ prefixes

2011-04-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 09:00:32PM CEST: Currently, limitations in the Automake support for java enforce the restriction that only one `_JAVA' primary can be used in a given Makefile.am. This bug is particularly annoying because *.java files listed with

bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

2011-04-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 02:54:36PM CEST: At this point I'm not anymore sure this is just a testsuite-related issue -- it seems like a genuine bug in Automake-generated remake rules. WDYT? No. You were right originally. The tests do need to $sleep. Please commit your

bug#8362: make install prefix inserted in source code with generated python files

2011-03-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * A.T.Hofkamp wrote on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:36:45AM CEST: As far as I know, make install prefix=/path/to/writable/dir should only change the place where files are copied to, instead of injecting that new prefix into the source code. However, for Python source files that are

bug#8289: distcheck and make dvi

2011-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Karl Berry wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:28:59PM CET: not bother checking dvi output and rather test PDF output seems like another good alternative. I can't agree with that. That's trading DVI-generation problems for PDF-generation problems. Believe me, there will be just as

bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

2011-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Peter, all, and sorry for the delay, * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:22:32PM CET: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Through testing I found out again that DejaGNU does not cope with white space in absolute directory names anyway, regardless of srcdir

bug#8099: LaTeX and automake

2011-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Reuben Thomas wrote on Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:42:33PM CET: Thoughts? We could just provide thin-layer support for both latexmk and/or rubber. That would probably be the least amount of work, both inside Automake, and for getting any missing bits into the upstream projects. Thanks, Ralf

bug#8099: LaTeX and automake

2011-02-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:24:57PM CET: Update: I've written to John to ask about copyright assignment, but discovered in the mean time that there are one or two other authors to talk to. I will see what John says first before considering how to proceed. I'm

bug#8099: LaTeX and automake

2011-02-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Reuben Thomas wrote on Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 02:39:31PM CET: On 27 February 2011 06:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Anyway, the next step to pursue this would be to think hard about the desired semantics, The tricky part here is that latexmk does its own dependency finding. Well yes. Also

bug#8111: after adding a(nother) subconfigure, rerunning make fails

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
close 8111 thanks This is not an Automake bug after all. It can be solved completely within Autoconf, thus no new version skew danger. :-) Patch for Autoconf coming up. Thanks, Ralf

bug#8111: after adding a(nother) subconfigure, rerunning make fails

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:32:57AM CET: On Saturday 26 February 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: This is not an Automake bug after all. It can be solved completely within Autoconf, thus no new version skew danger. :-) What about checking in your

bug#8104: automake suggests use of AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, this has been replaced by LT_INIT

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:45:11AM CET: I agree with Jack that advertising the use of LT_INIT would be better, since, according to Libtool NEWS file, that has obsoleted AC_PROG_LIBTOOL since version 1.9b (2004-08-29). Yes. There are still 1.5.x users out there, but

bug#8104: automake suggests use of AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, this has been replaced by LT_INIT

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:54:09PM CET: Fine with me. This is the additional squash-in -- on the top of the old one, since I had already commited that locally :-( Don't worry, I do such junk commits all the time. You could git diff HEAD@{2} or some similar

bug#8099: LaTeX and automake

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:43:51PM CET: I have just been investigating the state of the art for LaTeX support. I've just been autotooling up an old build system of mine from 15 years ago, and needed to build several LaTeX documents of modest complexity,

bug#8111: after adding a(nother) subconfigure, rerunning make fails

2011-02-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding autoconf-patches; this is http://debbugs.gnu.org/8111 ] * Jack Kelly wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:49:44PM CET: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Can we fix this somehow in either Autoconf or Automake? Could we save the results of tracing AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS

bug#7995: Guile support in Automake

2011-02-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7995 aka http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5303 ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 11:22:57PM CET: Automake should support Guile. I actually have patches for some tests, documentation and half

bug#7995: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation for Guile support.

2011-02-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
- 3 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 12b8e9f..c338e8a 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2011-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de + + Documentation for Guile support. + * doc

bug#7995: [PATCH 2/4] Testsuite coverage for Guile support.

2011-02-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
create mode 100755 tests/guile3.test create mode 100755 tests/guile4.test diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c338e8a..5483ce4 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2011-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de + Testsuite coverage for Guile support

bug#7995: [PATCH 4/4] Implement Guile support.

2011-02-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
/ChangeLog index bd27a05..bff6c15 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ 2011-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de + Implement Guile support. + * automake.in: Register new language 'Guile'. + (handle_guile): New function. + (generate_makefile): Call

bug#7995: [PATCH 3/4] Guile macro AM_PATH_GUILE.

2011-02-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 m4/guile.m4 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 5483ce4..bd27a05 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2011-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de + Guile macro AM_PATH_GUILE. + * m4/guile.m4 (AM_PATH_GUILE): New

bug#8044: Automake should support autotest-based testsuites.

2011-02-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:44:06PM CET: It sounds useful for some (probably not me, though), but I'd be wary of the big warning at the start of the autotest section: N.B.: This section describes a feature which is still stabilizing. Although we believe that

bug#8022: use .MAKEFILEDEPS for FreeBSD make

2011-02-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Severity: wishlist Similar to GNU make, which by default causes the makefile and included files to be rebuilt before doing anything else, FreeBSD make can do alike, when the special target .MAKEFILEDEPS exists. I've only checked FreeBSD 7.1 manpages for this feature. We could be using this for

bug#7994: make distcheck fails when latex is not installed

2011-02-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
In a package with a texinfo file, distcheck fails when LaTeX is not installed. Instead, it should exit 63(?). The fact that distcheck runs 'make dvi' is not documented. (From Jose; please correct me if I cited this wrongly now.) Thanks, Ralf

bug#7995: Guile support in Automake

2011-02-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Automake should support Guile. (From Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo). I actually have patches for some tests, documentation and half an implementation from last year; opening this PR now to track progress and not forget again. Thanks, Ralf

bug#7945: Is AM_PATH_PYTHON missing some versions in _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST?

2011-01-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:14:22AM CET: While poking around python.m4, I noticed that python2.6 and python2.7 are not mentioned in the list of python interpreters defined in _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Is this intentional? This is fixed in git Automake (both

bug#7884: Yacc and FreeBSD make in VPATH builds

2011-01-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:26:42PM CET: On Thursday 27 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I must admit that I still don't like this a lot. BSD is free software, we shouldn't have to put ugly workarounds in place for it, and this workaround does have some

bug#7884: [PATCH] yacc: fix VPATH builds with FreeBSD make

2011-01-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 01:51:40PM CET: On Thursday 27 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Does 'make -n' create files (for any target)? No, and I've updated the `yaccdry.test' testcase to also check for this (see attached amended patch). Thanks. How do you

bug#7884: Yacc and FreeBSD make in VPATH builds

2011-01-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:54:50AM CET: On Tuesday 25 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:52:56PM CET: Hmm... maybe a variation of this might be a good solution after all, at least for FreeBSD make

bug#7922: 1.11 doesn't add sources with nonstandard suffixes when making a binary

2011-01-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Юрий, please, do not top-post on this list. Thank you. * Юрий Пухальский wrote on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:23:42AM CET: 2011/1/11 Ralf Wildenhues: * Юрий Пухальский wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:48:08PM CET: .SUFFIXES: .pc .lo .c .pc.c:       cp $ $@ .c.lo:       cp

bug#7892: test failures induced by stale NFS files on Solaris

2011-01-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201101181921337961000.txt http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201101181921319021000.txt I've looked a bit now, and two of the leftover NFS files I could find were configure and install-sh. These failures are not new, see this older report:

bug#7893: HP-UX make causes autoconf timestamp issues

2011-01-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201101181921247117000.txt This HP-UX 11.31 system is fast enough to trigger test failures for at least these Automake tests, besides the ones already fixed: insthook libobj16b output10 posixsubst-data posixsubst-scripts subcond2 subpkg2 suffix13 all

bug#7884: Yacc and FreeBSD make in VPATH builds

2011-01-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:28:24PM CET: - Always create yacc-derived and distributed .c and .h files in $(srcdir), and explicitly instruct make to alwsys look fr them there at first -- similarly to what is done for info files (yuck) Yes, this is ugly, but

bug#7621: add a way to pass link dependencies

2011-01-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5122 ] Hi Bruno, first off, thanks for the very nice and detailed report, and sorry for the delay. * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 03:43:00PM CET: When creating an executable or library, sometimes other libraries have to

bug#7868: splitting up test suites

2011-01-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:19:24PM CET: On Thursday 20 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:38:17PM CET: Hmmm... while this feature might be worth having even indipendently from the issue at hand

bug#7868: splitting up test suites

2011-01-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:38:17PM CET: On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: We've finally reached the point where we have more than 1000 tests, $(TESTS) expands to 15k characters, and where 'make check' will not work at all any more

bug#7864: odd configure bug with dependency checking and conditional C++ support

2011-01-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding automake-patches, dropping bug-gnulib ] Hi Eric, thanks for the report! * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:52:08AM CET: checking dependency style of :... mkdir: cannot create directory `conftest.dir': File or Directory already exists cp: accessing `conftest.dir': Bad data

bug#7860: recursive autoreconf breaks AM_COND_IF conditionalization of AC_CONFIG_FILES

2011-01-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Dave Hart wrote on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:13:21PM CET: http://support.ntp.org/people/hart/am-libopts-subpkg.tar.gz First off, here's a trivial portability fix from that tarball. Cheers, Ralf 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de * m4/liboptschk.m4 (ag_FIND_LIBOPTS

bug#7860: recursive autoreconf breaks AM_COND_IF conditionalization of AC_CONFIG_FILES

2011-01-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Dave Hart wrote on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:13:21PM CET: When invoked by autoreconf of a project with nested configure.ac files, automake does not respect the disabling of AC_CONFIG_FILES by the top-level configure.ac using AM_COND_IF, resulting in an incorrect Makefile. Re-running

bug#7864: odd configure bug with dependency checking and conditional C++ support

2011-01-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Fixed by v1.11-293-gd652a1c.

bug#7868: splitting up test suites

2011-01-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
The testsuite is too large for MSYS. We've finally reached the point where we have more than 1000 tests, $(TESTS) expands to 15k characters, and where 'make check' will not work at all any more on MSYS, because it cannot spawn sh any more, presumably in 'make check TESTS=...'. (MSYS make doesn't

bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

2011-01-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 06:29:39PM CET: Ralf Wildenhues writes: Am I correct in assuming that it is hopeless to assume GCC will work when either values are relative? Actually, as far as I know, GCC is likely to work with a relative srcdir. The problem arises

bug#7828: documentation about '-d' in AM_YFLAGS is suboptimal

2011-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:36:08PM CET: On Wednesday 12 January 2011, Юрий Пухальский wrote: Package isn't enclosed because otherwise the message doesn't get through. Finally had time to make some tests, and now i've got it:) When i set AM_YFLAGS to -dt it

bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

2011-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ian, thanks for the bug report. * Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:52:09PM CET: When automake is configured to use DejaGNU, it uses two different values for srcdir. There are two different cases in lib/am/dejagnu.am: check-DEJAGNU: site.exp ## Life is easiest with an

bug#7819: automake does not really automatically distribute all the files it's advertised to.

2011-01-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:40:13PM CET: On Monday 10 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:50:13PM CET: But the above is not always correct, as some of these files are distributed *only* if other conditions

bug#7824: 1.11 doesn't add sources with nonstandard suffixes when making a binary

2011-01-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Юрий, * Юрий Пухальский wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:48:08PM CET: I've (finally) made it through two implicit rules, but i have a problem there. The makefile looks something like that: .SUFFIXES: .pc .lo .c .pc.c: cp $ $@ .c.lo: cp $ $@

bug#7766: (lack of) config.h description in manual

2011-01-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
retitle 7766 docs: work on index issues thanks * Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 01:00:20AM CET: Subsidiary points: in the general index (I continue to very strongly encourage you to merge all indexes, BTW), I didn't find anything useful for preprocessor, or #define, or config.h, or

bug#7773: (lack of) config.h description in manual

2011-01-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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. *

bug#7800: automake fails to honor `-d' in AM_YFLAGS when variable expansions are involved

2011-01-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 04:26:11AM CET: On 01/07/2011 07:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 05:52:54PM CET: On 01/07/2011 03:36 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Currently, automake is not smart enough to resolve variable expansions

bug#7766: (lack of) config.h description in manual

2011-01-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 01:00:20AM CET: Finally, the amhello explained node is pretty long. It seems to break up naturally into three pieces, for each of the files being explained. Perhaps it would be good to make them each separate (sub)nodes. Hmm, I see a

bug#7800: automake fails to honor `-d' in AM_YFLAGS when variable expansions are involved

2011-01-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, thanks for the report. * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:36:43PM CET: Currently, automake is not smart enough to resolve variable expansions in AM_YFLAGS (or foo_YFLAGS) when scanning them for the `-d' flag. value_as_list_recursive can usually help here. Not

bug#7773: (lack of) config.h description in manual

2011-01-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:53:44PM CET: I disagree that `make prefix=... install' is a poor man's DESTDIR. OK ok, I didn't mean to offend anyone here. Installing using DESTDIR will install things in $(DESTDIR)/$(prefix)/bin (and so on), which is a right pain

bug#7773: (lack of) config.h description in manual

2011-01-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Karl, Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:33:42AM CET: On 01/03/2011 05:00 PM, Karl Berry wrote: Thanks for the reference. Now that I know it, I suggest the Automake manual simply have a sentence with an xref to that node. Yes, I agree with that, and I am still going

bug#7773: (lack of) config.h description in manual

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:17:00AM CET: Following up to my own mail, No. :-) This opened a new bug report. I'm closing it, for reasons explained below. it seems I have been missing something basic all these years, since it's never come up in my own packages: in

bug#7763: Remake rules botch up when 'foreign' and 'ignore-deps' are removed from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

2011-01-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:38:45PM CET: Currently, the Automake-generated rebuild rules[1] invoke automake with some command-line options derived from arguments given to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. [1] For more info, see:

bug#7670: About make implementations that don't chain implicit rules

2010-12-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:52:17PM CET: Currently, automake is quite smart in catching and taking into account possible chaining of implicit rules. [...] And here comes the problem. While the above example works correctly for at least GNU make (tested with versions

bug#7657: TEXINFOS primary accepts too many prefixes.

2010-12-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:19:40PM CET: On Friday 17 December 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: For example, I can easily imagine a package having normal texinfo manuals, but also a developer's manual that maybe should end up in an internal directory elsewhere (or only

bug#7669: option foreign after -Wall turns off and portability warnings.

2010-12-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 07:52:29PM CET: With automake = 1.10, foreign *after* -Wall in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE turns off portability warnings. While the current behaviour is due to various historical and implementation reasons, IMHO it is counter-intuitive and somewhat

bug#7671: Presetting various *CLEANFILES variables

2010-12-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Behdad, and thanks for the bug report, * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 01:55:22AM CET: If instead automake was changed to always pre-initialize *CLEANFILES variables, all snippets could just append to do variables and my git.mk snippet would be more generic and much more

bug#7661: docs: typo in documentation about python extension modules?

2010-12-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 02:51:12PM CET: pyexec_LTLIBRARIES = quaternion.la quaternion_SOURCES = quaternion.c support.c support.h quaternion_la_LDFLAGS = -avoid-version -module Shouldn't `quaternion_la_SOURCES' be used instead of

bug#7655: conditional _TEXINFOS should be supported

2010-12-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ no need to keep bug-automake@ in Cc:; debbugs takes care of that ] Hello Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:42:52PM CET: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Jack Kelly wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: if COND info_TEXINFOS = foo.texi

bug#7657: TEXINFOS primary accepts too many prefixes.

2010-12-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:52:10PM CET: Currently, the TEXINFOS primary accept *all* the standard automake builtin prefix dirs (from `lib' and `bin' to `pkglibexec' and `sysconf'). IMHO it should accept only the `info' prefix (maybe also `doc'? but I'd rather say

bug#7656: MANS primary accepts too many prefixes.

2010-12-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:51:15PM CET: Currently, the MANS primary accept *all* the standard automake builtin prefix dirs (from lib and bin to pkglibexec and sysconf). IMHO it should accept only man and man{1..9} (maybe doc? but I'd rather say no). This one is

bug#7635: AC_LIBSOURCE doesn't fail as it should if AC_OUTPUT is not used

2010-12-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
tags 7635 wontfix close 7635 thanks * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:35:32PM CET: If configure.ac does not contain a call to AC_OUTPUT, Automake does not fail as expected when file(s) specified in calls to macros AC_LIBSOURCE and/or AC_LIBSOURCES do not exist. See the

bug#7434: When an incorrect option is used before --help/--version, automake behaviour is inconsistent with that of other GNU programs.

2010-11-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:41:20PM CET: Besides, in the particular case of automake, how often do automake or aclocal get invoked directly? To my experience, they are almost always invoked by autoreconf, ./bootstrap, or some custom autogen.sh script. (aside:

bug#7403: Unused variable `$source' in the depcomp script?

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:03:04AM CET: $ grep '\source\' lib/depcomp source Source file read by `PROGRAMS ARGS'. if test -z $depmode || test -z $source || test -z $object; then echo depcomp: Variables source, object and depmode must be set 12 #

bug#7403: Unused variable `$source' in the depcomp script?

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
tags 7403 wontfix close 7403 * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:10:41PM CET: Makes sense. You can close the bug if you want (maybe with tag wontfix?) You can also do that yourself if you like. Just put control at debbugs in Bcc: for commands like above. Cheers, Ralf

bug#7441: 1.11.1: Emacs files in subdirs

2010-11-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Akim, * Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:14:31AM CET: When passing _LISP files with a path, Automake produces schizophrenic Makefiles that expects the elc files to have the same path too, but produces elc files in `.'. Yes. I asked the necessary questions a while ago:

bug#7379: On the fix for CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*'

2010-11-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ Thanks Glenn for rerouting the bug report! ] Hi Behdad, From: Behdad Esfahbod Subject: On the fix for CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*' Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:17:22 -0500 I recently read about the fix for the chmod 777 issue. Just wanted to note that it may be

bug#7374: Automake bug when moving files to different directory

2010-11-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Török, thanks for the bug report. * Török Edwin wrote on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:11:44PM CET: Whenever I move a C/C++ file from a directory to another (and update Makefile.am), a subsequent 'make' fails because it is looking for the file in the old place (the .Plo dependency file

bug#7374: Automake bug when moving files to different directory

2010-11-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Török Edwin wrote on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:10:56PM CET: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:42:05 +0100 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Török Edwin wrote on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:11:44PM CET: I think that: - make clean should remove the dependency files if they're out of date/wrong

bug#7333: [PATCH] {maint} Fix a bug in variable concatanation with `+='.

2010-11-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Glenn Morris wrote on Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:34:23AM CET: Ralf Wildenhues wrote (on Mon, 8 Nov 2010 at 22:46 +0100): The commands above (Bcc:ed to control at debbugs) should merge and close both bugs. The (first) close didn't work, I think it was because your version number started

bug#7333: [PATCH] {maint} Fix a bug in variable concatanation with `+='.

2010-11-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Glenn Morris wrote on Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:46:01PM CET: Actually, that was probably too glib a response. The version number information is probably used in other places, and needs to be sortable so that the fixed/found commands can work. So I don't think arbitrary version strings can

bug#7333: [PATCH] {maint} Fix a bug in variable concatanation with `+='.

2010-11-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stefano, Andy, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 06:10:44PM CET: On Friday 05 November 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: I can confirm the bug with latest automake (from git master), with a much-reduced minimal testcase (see attachment). I still haven't looked for an

bug#7336: Failure on test parallel-tests5.test

2010-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote on Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:36:28PM CET: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:41:12PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5061 ] Ralf says

bug#7328: parallel installation ignores deps between libtool libraries

2010-11-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Andy, * Andy Wingo wrote on Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 04:19:55PM CET: lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la plugindir = $(libdir)/gstreamer-0.10 plugin_LTLIBRARIES = bar.la bar_la_LIBADD = libfoo.la Obviously we are missing some sources here, but it suffices to show the parallel

bug#7321: dejagnu support should provide for recheck target

2010-11-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Severity: wishlist The recheck feature is useful on a broader scale. recheck should be renamed to recheck-TESTS, and the recheck target depend on that. There should be a recheck-DEJAGNU (also depended on by recheck if dejagnu is used) that implements similar functionality. See here for some

bug#7209: test automake bug

2010-11-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Let's close this test PR.

Re: Failure on test parallel-tests5.test

2010-11-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5061 ] * Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:49:00PM CET: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:48:10AM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: (ulimit -t 300

Re: dist_noinst_MANS

2010-10-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:41:26PM CEST: Le 13 oct. 10 à 20:12, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : What would an uninstalled man page be useful for? Actually it's for symmetry with the corresponding programs that might, or might not, be installed. It's for an autoconfiscated

Re: dist_noinst_MANS

2010-10-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Akim, thanks for the feature request, and sorry for the delay. * Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:44:34PM CEST: Currently Automake accepts happily such a variable name, but it does not use it (the files are not dist'ed). I agree EXTRA_DIST is fine, but I'm used to being able

Re: even `if FALSE' *_SOURCES should be used for TAGS

2010-10-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:54:31PM CEST: On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:51:58PM CEST: OTOH AM_CONDITIONAL can be used for example if an optional sources part

Re: even `if FALSE' *_SOURCES should be used for TAGS

2010-10-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, and thanks for report and analysis! * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:51:58PM CEST: On Monday 11 October 2010, Jan Kratochvil wrote: `make tags' will not index sources which are listed in *_SOURCES += ... in unsatisfied AM_CONDITIONAL blocks. IMO they should be.

Re: even @C_FALSE@ (unsatisfied) contains rule to produce binary

2010-10-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, thanks for taking the time to report it here. * Jan Kratochvil wrote on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:57:28PM CEST: The a program gets built only `if F' below. Makefile.in correctly contains: @f_t...@a: b.c @F_TRUE@ gcc -o $@ $ -Wall But while does it also contains:

Re: Intermittent test failures

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Finally continuing this: * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:48:31PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues writes: Fix timestamp issues by ensuring configure takes at least a second. * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): If we didn't sleep here, start a sleep

Re: [OMPI devel] Setting AUTOMAKE_JOBS

2010-09-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralph Castain wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:41:38AM CEST: My point is just that it is unwise to assume that the OMPI build can utilize all available processors. I'm sure it's fine for the MTT runs, especially on Jeff's machines as they are dedicated to that purpose - just not a good

Re: Yet another bug in Lex/Yacc support (maintainer-mode).

2010-09-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:34:06PM CEST: While trying to improve and extend test `mmodely.test', I stumbled upon the bug exposed by the attached test script (weird bug, BTW: it's triggered with GNU make and FreeBSD make, but not with Solaris make; role

Re: AC_PROG_INSTALL does not trigger install-sh availability

2010-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, and adding bug-automake, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:42:15PM CEST: On 09/14/2010 03:32 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: using a configure.ac file with just four lines: AC_INIT([foo], [1]) AC_PROG_INSTALL I can produce a configure script by running `autoreconf -fi`,

Re: Five bugs in Vala integration

2010-09-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ trying to add vala-list; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5008 ] * Valentin David wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:08:00PM CEST: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Well, are the derived sources portable, i.e., not depending

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