Re: failure in building gnulib tests wih pcc on debian

2011-11-15 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Tuesday 15 November 2011, Bruno Haible wrote: Eric Blake wrote: ... on an unstable Debian using pcc (Portable C Compiler, version 1.1.0~DEVEL+20110422-1 ... Warnings like this, and the error in test-float.c, mean that all other packages using the same gnulib modules will have the

[PATCH] maint.mk: fix tight-scope.mk generation in VPATH builds.

2011-11-15 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Okay to push? * top/maint.mk (tight-scope.mk): Make sure to prefix file reference with $(srcdir) so that the file is found correctly even when running `make syntax-check' in a VPATH build. Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org --- ChangeLog|7 +++ top/maint.mk |2 +- 2

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support 'tiny change' commits.

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I think 'Copyright-paper-required: No' is still the best compromise here for the reasons stated earlier in the thread. Okay to push? The FSF require that all non-trivial patches to its projects be accompanied by appropriate paperwork, or that any patches that are

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support 'tiny change' commits.

2011-11-15 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 15 Nov 2011, at 18:14, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I think 'Copyright-paper-required: No' is still the best compromise here for the reasons stated earlier in the thread. Okay to push? The FSF require that all non-trivial patches to its projects be accompanied

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support 'tiny change' commits.

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 15 Nov 2011, at 18:14, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I think 'Copyright-paper-required: No' is still the best compromise here for ... This is setting FSF policy, Well, the policy is already set very clearly... From

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support 'tiny change' commits.

2011-11-15 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 15 Nov 2011, at 19:02, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 15 Nov 2011, at 18:14, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I think 'Copyright-paper-required: No' is still the best compromise here for ... This is setting FSF policy, Well, the policy is already set

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support 'tiny change' commits.

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 15 Nov 2011, at 19:02, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 15 Nov 2011, at 18:14, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I think 'Copyright-paper-required: No' is still the best compromise here for ... This is setting FSF policy, Well,

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix tight-scope.mk generation in VPATH builds.

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Okay to push? * top/maint.mk (tight-scope.mk): Make sure to prefix file reference with $(srcdir) so that the file is found correctly even when running `make syntax-check' in a VPATH build. ... tight-scope.mk: $(ME) @rm -f $@ $@-t - @perl -ne '/^#

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix tight-scope.mk generation in VPATH builds.

2011-11-15 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 15 Nov 2011, at 20:14, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Okay to push? * top/maint.mk (tight-scope.mk): Make sure to prefix file reference with $(srcdir) so that the file is found correctly even when running `make syntax-check' in a VPATH build. ... tight-scope.mk:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support 'tiny change' commits.

2011-11-15 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 15 Nov 2011, at 20:10, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 15 Nov 2011, at 19:02, Jim Meyering wrote: Propose a patch to maintain.texi. I don't want to get into a debate over the merits of generated ChangeLogs with RMS, which I already know he doesn't like. I don't

openat requires lstat.m4

2011-11-15 Thread Ben Walton
Hi All, I was playing with some gnulib stuff tonight and noticed that if I import only openat, I get errors when later running autoreconf: configure.ac:17: warning: gl_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd m4/openat.m4:11: gl_FUNC_OPENAT is expanded from...

gnulib integration how to

2011-11-15 Thread Ben Walton
Hi Bruno, I sent this to Jim last night as he's listed as the owner of gnulib on savanah, but he suggested I send this to you (and bug-gnulib). A while back I wrote a 'how to integrate gnulib'[1] tutorial that was aimed at the OpenCSW maintainer community. We package software for Solaris so

Re: openat requires lstat.m4

2011-11-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Ben Walton wrote: I was playing with some gnulib stuff tonight and noticed that if I import only openat, I get errors when later running autoreconf: configure.ac:17: warning: gl_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd m4/openat.m4:11: gl_FUNC_OPENAT is

Re: gnulib integration how to

2011-11-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ben, Ben Walton wrote: I sent this to Jim last night as he's listed as the owner of gnulib on savanah, but he suggested I send this to you (and bug-gnulib). Yes, things like this are suitable for public discussion. A while back I wrote a 'how to integrate gnulib'[1] tutorial that was