Re: [patch] fix broken pipe message from lseek test

Hi Ben, Thanks for this analysis. Default handling of SIGPIPE --- b...@blp:~/tmp(0)$ strace -o foo -f bash b...@blp:~/tmp(0)$ trap - SIGPIPE b...@blp:~/tmp(0)$ grep ^Sig /proc/$$/status SigQ: 1/16382 SigPnd: SigBlk:

portability of 'printf' command

Is the 'printf' command portable enough to be used in configure files and autoconf macros? The GNU Coding Standards [1] don't mention it as a portable utility. Indeed, when you use bash version 1 (which does not have 'printf' built-in) on a platform that does not have a /usr/bin/printf program,

[patch] vc-list-files and bazaar

Hi. Just a tiny patch to make build-aux/vc-list-files to work properly with GNU Bazaar. 2010-02-21 Jose E. Marchesi jema...@gnu.org * build-aux/vc-list-files: Invoke bazaar to generate a recursive list of versioned files based on 'dir' (usage of -R in 'bzr ls'). diff --git

[patch] Avoid some of the sc_ rules to freeze

Hi. Just another little patch to avoid some of the sc_* rules to freeze if the filtering of VC_LIST_EXCEPT gives an empty string (for example, 'make sc_error_exit_success' freezes if there are not source files in ${srcdir}/). I found this problem due to the bazaar issue in vc-list-files.

init.sh: fix EXEEXT shims to work also for names like test-prog

Per discussion last week, here's a patch for init.sh. The main goal is to allow the EXEEXT shim business to work also for program names like test-program, (containing a hyphen). I would have liked to skip the invocation of $re_shell_ -c ... if the current shell is deemed adequate, but determining

Re: init.sh: fix EXEEXT shims to work also for names like test-prog

Jim Meyering wrote: Per discussion last week, here's a patch for init.sh. The main goal is to allow the EXEEXT shim business to work also for program names like test-program, (containing a hyphen). I would have liked to skip the invocation of $re_shell_ -c ... if the current shell is deemed

Re: init.sh: fix EXEEXT shims to work also for names like test-prog

Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Per discussion last week, here's a patch for init.sh. The main goal is to allow the EXEEXT shim business to work also for program names like test-program, (containing a hyphen). I would have liked to skip the invocation of $re_shell_ -c ... if the

Re: portability of 'printf' command

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Bruno Haible wrote: Is someone aware of a platform that does not have a /usr/bin/printf or /bin/printf program? I am not able to find any. However, the behavior of printf surely changes over time as standards move forward. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: [patch] vc-list-files and bazaar

jema...@gnu.org wrote: Just a tiny patch to make build-aux/vc-list-files to work properly with GNU Bazaar. 2010-02-21 Jose E. Marchesi jema...@gnu.org * build-aux/vc-list-files: Invoke bazaar to generate a recursive list of versioned files based on 'dir' (usage of -R in 'bzr

Re: Gnulib TP template out of date?

Unfortunately, the POT file is very out of date (http://translationproject.org/POT-files/gnulib-1.0.0.1991.dbebf.pot Gnulib folks -- perhaps we should set up a cron job to update it monthly, or some such? Unfortunately I don't know how the previous pot was generated. Maybe a Makefile

Re: portability of 'printf' command

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: I am not able to find any. However, the behavior of printf surely changes over time as standards move forward. SunOS didn't have one (I don't see it in the manpages, at any rate). I did check SunOS 5.6 (Solaris 2.6) and it does have one. SunOS 4

Re: Gnulib TP template out of date?

Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org ha escrit: Gnulib folks -- perhaps we should set up a cron job to update it monthly, or some such? Nice idea. In the meantime I will submit the new potfile tomorrow. Unfortunately I don't know how the previous pot was generated. Maybe a Makefile could be

Re: portability of 'printf' command

Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org writes: The GNU Coding Standards [1] don't mention it as a portable utility. Indeed, when you use bash version 1 (which does not have 'printf' built-in) on a platform that does not have a /usr/bin/printf program, you would be hosed. But which platforms are this?

gnulib module install

Hello, I can't help myself, but I am not satisfied with the current choice of methods how to install a gnulib module (with respect to version control systmes)? AFAIK from the manual, there are two possible ways: - Either one commits everyhing to the repository (I don't like that since it

Re: gnulib module install

Hi, Matěj Týč wrote: What I don't like about the second solution is the necessity of having gnulib-tool available. ... ... should be performed manually from the gnulib git. You surely can imagine that the difficulty of the build process would increase because of this. Well, manually does

Re: gnulib-tool --create-testdir

Hi Jim, I tested init.sh on Solaris 10 by doing this locally, ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests --dir=tt xstrtoll Running (in tt) ./configure make make dist, and copying the tarball to the Solaris system. You don't need to ./configure make make dist in a gnulib testdir;