Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:48:04AM CEST: I had to autoreconf to get rid of a ton of spurious configure time errors on my Mac... oddly, the first autoreconf threw up a ton of unset AC_LANG warnings, but when I reran autorecong to log them for later

Re: [diffutils-3.0] 9 of 78 tests failed on Haiku

2010-10-09 Thread scott mc
I have verified the sleep( ) issue and have checked with some of the Haiku devs on these issues. All of these are issues with Haiku. I have opened a handful of tickets in Haiku's trac to cover them: http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6704 http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6705

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 9 Oct 2010, at 15:13, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Gary, Hallo Ralf, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:48:04AM CEST: I had to autoreconf to get rid of a ton of spurious configure time errors on my Mac... oddly, the first autoreconf threw up a ton of unset AC_LANG

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Gary, On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote: 400 lines of intense shell script later, ... With only a very cursory look at the implementation - how come you don't just invoke gl_EARLY and gl_INIT and let the gnulib machinery take care of including all the

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:45:57PM CEST: On 9 Oct 2010, at 15:13, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:48:04AM CEST: ...ah, that's because autoreconf is still running aclocal before libtoolize, autoreconf runs

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I've never liked the gnulib 'non-release' policy, and think that maybe git branching at some reasonably stable point from time to time and apply fixes to make occasional libposix releases would satisfy my nagging fears This already happens for a year now. We _are_ making

Re: [PATCH] time: enforce recent POSIX ruling that time_t is integral

2010-10-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, Thanks for this addition. +struct __time_t_must_be_integral { + unsigned int __floating_time_t_unsupported : 2 * ((time_t) 1 / 2 == 0) - 1; +}; I agree with the expression (personally I would have used (time_t) 0.5 == 0 but that's probably equivalent). But why use __ as prefix?

Re: [PATCH] time: enforce recent POSIX ruling that time_t is integral

2010-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Hmm, given Bruno's recent point that C89 didn't require ?: support in constant expressions I'm skeptical of that. I can't find my copy of the official C89 standard, but the draft http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt says that constant expressions can contain ?:. In fact, the grammar in

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Bruce Korb
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I've never liked the gnulib 'non-release' policy, and think that maybe git branching at some reasonably stable point from time to time and apply fixes to make occasional libposix releases would satisfy

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, On Oct 10, 2010, at 2:12 AM, Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I've never liked the gnulib 'non-release' policy, and think that maybe git branching at some reasonably stable point from time to time and apply fixes to make occasional libposix releases would