Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-27 Thread James Youngman
On Nov 26, 2007 10:55 AM, James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially it checks gnulib out using cvs checkout -D to get a reproducible version and then imports the indicated modules. The config file and the script which reads it are checked into CVS and included in findutils

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-27 Thread Jim Meyering
James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 26, 2007 10:55 AM, James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially it checks gnulib out using cvs checkout -D to get a reproducible version and then imports the indicated modules. The config file and the script which reads it are checked

Re: Troubles with dispose function on oset

2007-11-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, I have written my dispose function, I get as parameter a void pointer, which it seems I must free too. However its prototype is like: typedef void (*gl_setelement_dispose_fn) (const void *elt); Then, if I declare my function with a non-const type as first argument, it will warn

Re: Patch for the getpagesize module

2007-11-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Martin, Thanks for your patch. - Don't provide a getpagesize.h header. Modify gnulibs unistd.h instead. Yes, I agree this is useful, because although POSIX does not specify getpagesize() any more, SUSV2 had it declared in unistd.h [1]. - Provide a getpagesize function (not a macro)

Re: Patch for the getpagesize module

2007-11-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Martin Lambers wrote: If a macro is used instead, should its definition go into lib/unistd.h.in directly, or should it stay in a separate lib/getpagesize.h, which is then included in lib/unistd.h.in? It should go into lib/unistd.in.h. You can use blank lines or other kinds of separator lines

Re: test-xprintf-posix.sh failure on NetBSD 1.6

2007-11-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just run the test-xprintf-posix.sh test on NetBSD 1.6 and saw this failure: ... make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/coreutils-6.9.89.12-8e412/gnulib-tests' make check-TESTS make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/coreutils-6.9.89.12-8e412/gnulib-tests'

how to use AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS with a multi-library package?

2007-11-27 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I check for a package (ffcall) which consists of several libraries (avcall and callback)? I do not want to force the user to do pass the prefix twice: --with-avcall-prefix=/usr/local --with-callback-prefix=/usr/local I want

Re: copyright notice for regexprops-generic.texi

2007-11-27 Thread James Youngman
On Nov 24, 2007 11:53 AM, James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now notice that unfortunately the content of regexprops-generic.texi has significantly diverged from the (one time) original source, which is automatically generated by lib/regexprops.c in findutils. This original contains