Re: gnulib-tool: new options --add-import, --remove-import

2010-09-05 Thread Bruno Haible
2010-09-04 Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org gnulib-tool: Help migration from --import to --add-import or --update. * gnulib-tool: Emit a verbose error message when --import is used without any module name. And another migration aid: print the changed options in bold font in

Re: isnan/isinf - LGPL

2010-09-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Ben Pfaff wrote: We’d like to use ‘isnan’ and ‘isinf’ in libguile, which is LGPLv3+. Could you make these two modules LGPL? This is fine with me. I think that you will also need Bruno Haible to agree. You don't need my agreement, because - The license change affects only the file

Re: Failing to use gnulib bootstrap in libtool

2010-09-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Gary, The architecture of my current rewrite of gnulib bootstrap, moves all the top-level code into functions ... Then `bootstrap.conf' is sourced, where the nodes of that shell-function-require-tree can be overwritten with replacement functions to radically alter the behaviour of the

Re: Failing to use gnulib bootstrap in libtool

2010-09-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: ... 10. slurp() == ... I think it has/had two purposes: 1. It allowed Paul to use symbolic links or hard links to gnulib files, at a time when gnulib-tool did not have options for symbolic links. 2. It prevents some files from being edited. Again,

Re: Failing to use gnulib bootstrap in libtool

2010-09-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: be careful that with bootstrap.conf, when one removes a module, that the removal is reflected in lib/m4/etc. directories. This problem was fixed by yesterday's semantic change of --import. Bruno

Re: isnan/isinf - LGPL

2010-09-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org writes: 2010-09-05 Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org isinf, isnan: Relax license. * modules/isinf (License): Change from GPL to LGPL, with consent from Ben Pfaff. * modules/isnan (License): Likewise. Requested by Ludovic Courtès.

POSIXLY_CORRECT not correctly unset in getopt.m4?

2010-09-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I just had a very long chase for a new build error that began after a recent gnulib upgrade. Briefly, the symptoms were that an invocation of curl-config --libs was returning nothing when run by configure on systems with older curls. curl-config is a shell script, which calls pkg-config

Re: POSIXLY_CORRECT not correctly unset in getopt.m4?

2010-09-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: I re-updated my gnulib repository, and I don't see any changes to this file, so I'm assuming that the bug is still present.  I will look for a fix and send a patch, but I thought I would poll for corroboration or any

Re: Failing to use gnulib bootstrap in libtool

2010-09-05 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, On 5 Sep 2010, at 17:14, Bruno Haible wrote: The architecture of my current rewrite of gnulib bootstrap, moves all the top-level code into functions ... Then `bootstrap.conf' is sourced, where the nodes of that shell-function-require-tree can be overwritten with replacement

Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:23:57PM CEST: The git pages are clear that S-O-B has project-dependent interpretation. Coreutils currently doesn't even use it (the only people with commit privileges to the master coreutils.git have FSF copyright, and it is assumed that

Re: absolute build directory with spaces

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:28:58PM CEST: Stefano Lattarini wrote: What about instead making the names of the temporaries source/build/install directories used by make distcheck configurable? This will offer more flexibility, and won't introduce still another

Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:20:30AM CEST: On 6 Sep 2010, at 03:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries which explicitly do not have that particular meaning. :-/ I suppose we can create an annotation