Re: [PATCH] Solaris ACL handling

2010-03-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Ben Walton on 2/12/2010 6:32 AM: > > Hi Ben, >> I'm building coreutils for OpenCSW (http://opencsw.org) and was seeing >> the test suite fail several tests with 'Operation not supported on >> tranport endpoint' messages. After digging around a bit, I found that >>

Re: arg-nonnull.h & warn-on-use.h in build-aux

2010-03-02 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/2/10, Sam Steingold wrote: > Sam Steingold wrote: > > > I updated gnulib in clisp and gnulib-tool installed arg-nonnull.h & > warn-on-use.h in src/build-aux. > > > > So, any chance these files could be restored to their proper place in > gllib? Alternatively, I would be reasonably happy wit

Re: arg-nonnull.h & warn-on-use.h in build-aux

2010-03-02 Thread Sam Steingold
Sam Steingold wrote: I updated gnulib in clisp and gnulib-tool installed arg-nonnull.h & warn-on-use.h in src/build-aux. So, any chance these files could be restored to their proper place in gllib? This location causes me huge problems because these files are not covered by sed_transform_lib_

Re: Remove fts-lgpl?

2010-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/17/2010 2:40 AM: >> I think you've nailed it - fts-lgpl isn't really being used anywhere. >> We originally offered it as a way to port glibc's fts to platforms >> that lacked fts altogether, but glibc's fts is so much worse than >> gnulib's that it hasn't been wort

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-02 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/2/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > it would be not necessary if the --*-common arguments are introduced > > because then the macro prefix can be generated automatically. > > > But I don't see how it would work because of module interdependency's. > I think there are two main cases: > > 1)

status of new 'c++defs' module?

2010-03-02 Thread John W. Eaton
Is there any reason not to commit the changes for the new c++defs module? Earlier, I wrote: | How can one easily find all the places where the GNULIB_NAMESPACE tag | is needed? Is there some way we can get the compiler to help with | this job? | | The reason I liked the idea of having the gnuli

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Steingold writes: > On 3/2/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Sam Steingold writes: >> >> > On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> >> >> >> It would be nice it gnulib-tool could do it, but I have a hard time >> >> thinking how that would actually be implemented. There are so many >> >> dif

Re: [PATCH] Solaris ACL handling

2010-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
According to Ben Walton on 2/12/2010 6:32 AM: Hi Ben, > I'm building coreutils for OpenCSW (http://opencsw.org) and was seeing > the test suite fail several tests with 'Operation not supported on > tranport endpoint' messages. After digging around a bit, I found that > errno was EOPNOTSUPP in sev

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-02 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/2/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Sam Steingold writes: > > > On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> > >> It would be nice it gnulib-tool could do it, but I have a hard time > >> thinking how that would actually be implemented. There are so many > >> different ways you may want to organ

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-02 Thread Johan van Selst
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote: > FreeBSD's POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK is 0x20, FreeBSD's POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER > is 0x08. Whereas the gnulib replacement value for POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK is > 0x08. It seems gnulib's replacement value is in use when it should not. I'm > applying this fix. Thanks for

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Johan, Thanks for the added details. > The code actually works fine on FreeBSD 7.2 machines. It's also > fine on OpenBSD (4.7) and MacOS (Darwin 8.11). So it seems something was > changed / broken in FreeBSD 8.0. FreeBSD 8.0 has its own, new implementation of the posix_spawn* functions, where

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Steingold writes: > On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> >> It would be nice it gnulib-tool could do it, but I have a hard time >> thinking how that would actually be implemented. There are so many >> different ways you may want to organize your gnulib directories that >> having gnulib-t

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > What I mean - I wouldn't mind commiting gnulib stuff to VCS, but only > if I can omit files generated by autoreconf. > > FWIW, that is exactly what I do for Texinfo. It helps my contributors > to not spend time dealing with gnulib, and it helps

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-02 Thread Johan van Selst
Johan van Selst wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > I'll try and get on a FreeBSD machine and see if I can reproduce this. > > But my initial pre-release testing on BSD did not fail, so I will have to > > figure out what is different between my environment and yours. > I shall check it on different syst