bug#68808: subsecond mtime discovery code insufficient

2024-01-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, at 6:32 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > test "$[*]" != "X conftest.ts1 conftest.ts2" || > .. > test "$[]2" = conftest.ts3 && > .. > etc. > > I've never seen anything like that before. Oh! Those square brackets are M4 quotes to prevent M4 from expanding $* and $2 itself. zw

bug#68808: subsecond mtime discovery code insufficient

2024-01-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, at 7:46 AM, Erik A Johnson wrote: > I found the problem! The default GNU make on macOS (even Sonoma) is > 3.81 from 2006! The configure script for GNU make versions <4.0 did > not have the right test for subsecond resolution in the macOS stat() > function, so 3.81 was built

bug#68808: subsecond mtime discovery code insufficient

2024-01-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024, at 6:00 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > But, looking at that code, I belatedly see that shell arrays are being > used. At least I think so. It is absolutely not *supposed* to be using shell arrays. If it is, that was a mistake on my part. zw

bug#68274: automake 1.16j nonnumerical version confuses scripts

2024-01-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Jan 14, 2024, at 1:49 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 13 Jan 2024 15:58, Karl Berry wrote: >> Another alternative: when this came up 30-odd years ago, rms changed the >> GNU maintainers doc to suggest x.y.90, .91, etc. for pretests. Doing >> that would at least have the benefit of following

bug#62896: [Configure] Bug with check for PERL when path has spaces (i.e. Windows)

2023-12-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023, at 9:08 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 02 Dec 2023 15:53, Karl Berry wrote: >> Exit status yes, but at least historically, grep -q has been >> considered non-portable, in favor of grep ... >/dev/null. > > i get that `grep -q` is something historically we've avoided, but i >

bug#64968: automake --version isn't work

2023-07-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, at 1:39 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, at 2:02 AM, 874882199--- via Bug reports for > Automake wrote: >> In Docker(in the vmware ubunt also has the problem): >> Environment: >> Ubuntu 20.04 5.15.0-78-generic. >> Automake1.4 f

bug#64968: automake --version isn't work

2023-07-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, at 2:02 AM, 874882199--- via Bug reports for Automake wrote: > In Docker(in the vmware ubunt also has the problem): > Environment: > Ubuntu 20.04 5.15.0-78-generic. > Automake1.4 from ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/java/automake-gcj-1.4.tar.gz. This is a very old version of

bug#63052: Bug Mite have been found

2023-04-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023, at 5:46 AM, Travis Goff wrote: > /kalibrate-rtl$ bash /usr/share/automake-1.16/missing --help > [... help output ...] Could you please explain what went wrong here? Be as specific as possible. What do you think happened, and what do you think should having happened instead?

bug#33779: Color-coded output from autoconf/automake (was Re: bug#33779: Wrong lib-list in install-%DIR%LTLIBRARIES)

2023-01-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, at 4:38 AM, Bert Wesarg via Bug reports for Automake wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 6:58 AM Mike Frysinger wrote: > No, I don't have one. It just crossed my eyes while working on more > silent rules in Automake. I made Ben recently aware of these changes, > which are

bug#58025: [PATCH] Ensure `byte-compile-dest-file-function' is used

2022-09-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, at 5:45 AM, Richard Hopkins wrote: > On 2022-09-23 16:15, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> Thank you for the patch. Are you able to test it with a version of >> GNU Emacs older than 23.2? I see that you tested it with XEmacs 21, >> but as I recall there w

bug#58025: [PATCH] Ensure `byte-compile-dest-file-function' is used

2022-09-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, at 8:24 AM, em...@unbit.co.uk wrote: > The attached `git format-patch` is based on automake v1.16.5 and fixes > the following warning > > Warning (bytecomp): byte-compile-dest-file is obsolete (as of 23.2); > Set byte-compile-dest-file-function instead. > > The

bug#32868: Check if make supports nested variables is done twice when using silent rules

2022-02-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
> i'm inclined to bring this back as the way to opt-in to silent-rules > by default. And I’m still absolutely opposed to making it even *possible* to have silent rules be on by default. In fact I’d like to see —enable-silent-rules removed, with make V=0 the *only* way to switch to silent mode.

bug#53530: [PATCH] python: add 3.10 - 3.15 to the version search list

2022-01-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 6:37 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/53530. > > Based on the cadence of Automake releases, add the current Python > release (3.10), the current Python development (3.11), and then 4 > more versions on top of that. It doesn't hurt to

bug#31728: [PATCH] dmalloc: mark macro as obsolete

2022-01-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, at 4:44 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Sorry, I still disagree with "deprecating" AM_WITH_DMALLOC (or anything > else). My wish would be to add some strong wording in the manual about > how it doesn't do anything especially useful, new code shouldn't use it, > etc., and let it go at

bug#50469: [bison-3.8] bug or side effect to flex & automake

2021-09-08 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, at 1:31 AM, Akim Demaille wrote: > One big problem with the Autotools as of today is that they promote > the use of macros/build rules for Yacc, not for Bison. The contract of AC_PROG_YACC is to find something that will generate parsers from POSIX-compliant input; all three

bug#14196: Fwd: bug#14196: Problem with invoking "missing" in directory with "(" in name (Automake 1.11.6, Autoconf 2.68

2020-09-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
It looks like this didn't go through to bug-automake because the bug was still considered to be assigned to autoconf at the time. -- Forwarded message - From: Zack Weinberg Date: Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:44 AM Subject: Re: bug#14196: Problem with invoking "missing" in

bug#9890: cosmetic bug in AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2011-10-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
a minor question: Zack, are you the same Zack Weinberg already listed in the THANKS file with the address z...@codesourcery.com? If yes, should I update that address? Yes I am, and yes you should update that address. I left CodeSourcery in 2005, but I mean za...@panix.com to remain valid

bug#9890: cosmetic bug in AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2011-10-28 Thread Zack Weinberg
If you use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable]), configure will print checking whether to disable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles ... yes when --disable-maintainer-mode was *not* given on the command line, and checking whether to disable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles ... no