Re: bootstrap/autogen.sh and git submodules

> On Mar 3, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Hi, > > When gnulib is used in a package, often the maintainers of that package > use it via a git submodule, because that enables them to upgrade to newer > versions of gnulib when they want to (and have a failsafe build between > these

Re: bootstrap regression ?

> On Mar 2, 2019, at 10:08 AM, Tim Rühsen wrote: > >> On 02.03.19 17:52, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> >> On Mar 1, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Tim Rühsen > <mailto:tim.rueh...@gmx.de>> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> at GnuTLS we have one g

Re: bootstrap regression ?

> On Mar 1, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Tim Rühsen wrote: > > Hi, > > at GnuTLS we have one git submodule that is not 'active' by default - > this is on purpose since we want to init it just in certain cases. > > The latest 'bootstrap' script doesn't accept this and stops with an error: > "./bootstrap:

Re: Question about build-aux/bootstrap regarding $(...)

> On May 16, 2017, at 8:12 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > >> On 05/16/2017 12:47 AM, Akash Rawal wrote: >> Hello everyone Hi, >> I observed that build-aux/bootstrap uses $(command) for command >> substitution which is known to be less portable than `command`.[1] > > It's less

Re: recent changes to obstacks cause many out of memory failures in M4 master testsuite

Hi Eric, On Dec 5, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/05/2014 12:03 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Bisecting my way to the the first gnulib changeset that causes these failures, I landed at: bb2ab7e 2014-10-29 14:02 Alan Modra obstack: 64-bit obstack support

Re: [PATCH 0/5] obstacks again

any special client code changes. If there's a way to at least diagnose negative arguments rather than silently change behavior, that would save other projects some migration headaches... Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: EXEEXT for other languages

Hi Reuben, On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: On 11 January 2014 03:49, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote: Hi Reuben, On Jan 11, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: I have a project that installs a C program and a Perl program. I want

Re: EXEEXT for other languages

an install-exec-hook in your Makefile.am that performs any post-install renames according to whatever logic you deem appropriate :) http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed

maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

rule) looks like a harmless way to fix the bug to me. Okay to push? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

Hi Jim, Thanks for the quick response. On Jan 2, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote: ... The change (back ticks instead of $(...) in the no-submodule-changes rule) looks like a harmless way to fix

as_echo/bs_echo still required?

if there is a consensus to apply them. But, it looks like doing so effectively deprecates Solaris 7 support, which may be premature... Comments? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

to the maintainer-makefile module that gets added to every maint.mk project's configure by gnulib-tool? Hopefully you have something in mind with less overhead than either of those? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using

Re: as_echo/bs_echo still required?

Hi Paul, On Jan 2, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: it looks like doing so effectively deprecates Solaris 7 support That's fine. Sun (now Oracle) stopped supporting Solaris 7 in August 2008. Even Solaris 8 is fair game now; its end

Re: Version number tag

- otherwise certain invocations of bootstrap can break the release rules in maint.mk. Jim plans to push a version tag every 1000 commits or so. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

, but for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4 gpgv). Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

Hi Jim, On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote: for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4 gpgv). You say

Re: [PATCH 2/2] do-release-commit-and-tag: use funclib.sh instead of sort -V GNUism.

is producing some churn in the funclib.sh and others. I’ll wait for the testing to finish, and then resubmit what I have then. Cheers, — Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

to the shallow clone issue with bootstrap, by making sure the shallow clones are at least 1000 changesets deep. WDYT? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

maint.mk bug

fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. I will finish the release process by hand, but wanted to ping the list so that the bugs don't get forgotten :) Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

[PATCH] maint.mk: get current gnulib revision correctly.

Further to my earlier bug report. Okay to push? * top/maint.mk (gnulib-version): Use git rev-parse to get the current HEAD revision. Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org --- top/maint.mk | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: get current gnulib revision correctly.

On Oct 27, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: Thanks, that looks good, please push. Thanks. Pushed. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

[PATCH 1/2] funclib.sh: new module, shell script boiler plate and helper fns.

-by: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org --- build-aux/funclib.sh | 1212 ++ modules/funclib.sh | 19 + 2 files changed, 1231 insertions(+) create mode 100644 build-aux/funclib.sh create mode 100644 modules/funclib.sh diff --git a/build-aux/funclib.sh b

[PATCH] new funclib.sh module

funclib.sh during copying, but I just realised that before I can push this simplified version I need to add funclib.sh to the Depends: block in modules/do-release-commit- and-tag. Okay to push (one or both)? Cheer, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

[PATCH 2/2] do-release-commit-and-tag: use funclib.sh instead of sort -V GNUism.

* build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag: Source funclib.sh from the same directory as do-release-commit-and-tag, and then call the func_sort_ver shell function in lieu of unportable sort -V. Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org --- build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag | 10 ++ 1 file

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

a system that enabled flags explicitly and not by inspecting side effects but I can understand the current behaviour. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

Hi Eric, On Sep 24, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/23/2013 09:28 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Clearly, it should at least check whether the compiler is actually gcc before piling on the flags, although I don't think it is serious enough to warrant another

Re: [bug #35580] bootstrap is not portable to OpenBSD

Hi Mike, Thank you for taking the time to try my script, and especially for the great feed back. Much appreciated! On Aug 9, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:36:42 +0700, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I'd be delighted to hear your feedback if you

Re: [bug #35580] bootstrap is not portable to OpenBSD

feedback if you have any success in switching to my rewrite. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: test-fclose coredumps on AIX 5 thru 7 (and similar test-strtod coredump on ia64)

Hi Paul, On 11 Mar 2013, at 21:55, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: On 03/11/2013 12:35 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Anything I can do to help debug this failure? That looks like an AIX bug, no? Perhaps file a bug with IBM? I'm not sure it's gnulib's job to work around that bug

test-fclose coredumps on AIX 5 thru 7

? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: [PATCH] make check failure on Tru64 Unix

Hi Paul, On 11 Mar 2013, at 12:31, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: On 03/10/2013 10:18 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Any objections if I push the fix? No, thanks, that fix looks good to me. Pushed. Thank you. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

[FYI] regex: rename remaining __attribute calls to __attribute__.

From: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org Commit 930b85b changed definition of __attribute, but left some uses unchanged, preventing compilation of regex module on most non-gcc environments: * lib/regcomp.c (re_set_fastmap, seek_collating_symbol_entry) (lookup_collation_sequence_value, build_range_exp

Re: bootstrap: Portability issue on FreeBSD.

, lua-stdlib, luaposix and others), which doesn't hardcode the 'sh' invocation anywhere. The newest online version of bootstrap right now is available here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/plain/bootstrap?h=branch-1.4 Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

} Anything else I can do to help fix this? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

Hi Paul, Thanks for the quick response. On 9 Mar 2013, at 00:04, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: On 03/08/2013 08:43 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Anything else I can do to help fix this? Can you tell us what my_asprintf is putting into 'result'? If I print result just before

Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

Hi Paul, Thanks for applying a fix so quickly. On 9 Mar 2013, at 00:47, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: On 03/08/2013 09:15 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: ../../tests/test-xvasprintf.c: In function 'test_xasprintf': ../../tests/test-xvasprintf.c:98

Re: Documentation of lib$package.a?

somehow from bootstrap.conf? Quickly testing latest gnulib-tool, it already shows a reminder to set _LDADD or _LDFLAGS appropriately. It seems your environment is not working properly. HTH, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: Documentation of lib$package.a?

Hi Reuben, On 31 Jan 2013, at 00:37, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: On 30 January 2013 17:10, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote: Are you using the bootstrap script from gnulib (which I didn't check) Yes. Then, may I humbly suggest you switch to my bootstrap rewrite, which has

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove the need for a sorted .gitignore

:( Addressing them are probably best for a subsequent patch. Agreed, though practically speaking, I fear that subsequent patch will not arrive :( On 01/26/2013 05:27 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Here is the version I've added to libtool bootstrap (note, the arguments are reversed on mine because

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove the need for a sorted .gitignore

-school portability, and might be obfuscating my scripts unnecessarily if I'm inadvertently pandering to museum pieces, and until someone kindly points me to the evidence of my errors I'm not even aware of where all those opportunities to improve and modernize will lie. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove the need for a sorted .gitignore

Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2013, at 09:52, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: ... so it would be safer to probe for and use a backslash safe echo here Much better would be to just use printf. Safer, simpler and more portable! Yes. For uses like this, echo has been

Re: You may need to add #include directives for the following .h files

V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove the need for a sorted .gitignore

$str$nl $file \ || func_permissions_error $file done } Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

[PATCH 0/2] gitlog-to-changelog remove duplicate log entries

-to-changelog patch * gl/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog.diff: Delete. 2012-02-19 Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org 2012-02-02 Roumen Petrov bugtr...@roumenpetrov.info (tiny change) fixup: restore EXPORTS test With the first patch applied, gitlog-to-changelog continues to issue

[PATCH 1/2] gitlog-to-changelog: don't output spurious header lines.

From: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org Move the code for printing header lines inside the else clause of the empty commit message warning if... so you either get a warning, or you get the ChangeLog header followed by the non-empty commit message. * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: When

[PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: remove duplicates without warning messages.

From: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org Now, when the new 'Omit-from-ChangeLog: Yes' tag is found in a commit log entry, after git-log-fix edits have been applied, don't output anything into the ChangeLog for that entry. * bulid-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: Omit-from-ChangeLog is a new log entry tag

Re: bootstrap does not pass --force to autoreconf

command line along to all autoreconf and libtoolize invocations it makes without any problems. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: bootstrap does not pass --force to autoreconf

On 28 Dec 2012, at 18:00, Akim Demaille a...@lrde.epita.fr wrote: Le 28 déc. 2012 à 10:35, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org a écrit : Salut Akim! Hi Gary! Long time no see :) Too long! :) My bootstrap rewrite (used by Libtool Zile among others) has always passed any `--force' from it's own

Re: bootstrap does not pass --force to autoreconf

Salut Akim! On 28 Dec 2012, at 19:22, Akim Demaille a...@lrde.epita.fr wrote: Le 28 déc. 2012 à 12:39, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org a écrit : On 28 Dec 2012, at 18:00, Akim Demaille a...@lrde.epita.fr wrote: Can't all these bootstraps be merged? Bison used to have a forked one too

Re: error: required file 'config.h.in' not found

Do you have a repo or tarball of your source package I can look at to try and reproduce? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: Patches to README-release

Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 15:27, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas r

Re: Patches to README-release

Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 16:28, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I'm wondering what purpose AC_PREREQ (etc) really serves if you're not using them to encode the versions of the autotools that are required to bootstrap a package in the way expected by the maintainers

Re: Patches to README-release

as spurious (when using saner bootstrap)? P.S. I will repropose saner bootstrap and supporting scripts to gnulib when my workload eases off in a few more weeks, as I promised last year. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

better and is much faster, cleaner and more configurable and extensible than gnulib bootstrap after this, and try to make time to resubmit the files needed to upgrade it later this month) Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

, and finish the multi-gnulib instance hook function without any help, please ping me afterwards if you don't mind me adopting it for M4 too :) Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

Hi Simon, On 11 Jan 2012, at 21:35, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 11 Jan 2012, at 20:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: [[...]] for some reason, my projects often follow a pattern where they need to have multiple gnulib instances. [[...]] I think this setup is a fairly common requirement for any

Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

Hi Simon, On 11 Jan 2012, at 22:08, Simon Josefsson wrote: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org writes: Now that I think about it, I'd like to put the multi-gnulib support directly into my bootstrap script so that it can be called by setting some configuration variables in bootstrap.conf rather than

Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

easier to extend without any ugly hacks. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

on accepting those into upstream, I'll start posting the bootstrap rewrite contents for review a few functions at a time. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

the m4 macros with GNU M4! Parsing m4 macros with M4? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I know it's radical, but with that module accepted into gnulib, it would allow aclocal, autoreconf and gnulib-tool to go out on a limb too - if they don't mind being so radical and progressive as well =)O| Cheers, -- Gary V

Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes == (tiny change)

I'll wait for an ACK before I push. That's great! Please go right ahead :-) Cheers, Gary Jim From 9301160f1f63d1193402a4cecf17c33da2305020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:47:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Copyright

HOWTO: track '(tiny change)' in gitlog-to-changelog generated ChangeLog

not too far from now anyway): http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/plain/gl/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog.diff In the worst case, you might need to figure out what SHA1 revision of gnulib libtool is using for its gnulib submodule, and use the same version. HTH, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support multi-author commits.

Hi Jim, Thanks for the reviews. On 17 Nov 2011, at 03:01, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: ... the parts that didn't work OOTB on my Mac to be portable. Feel free to crib those portable parts of this one into coreutils, or reformat this one to coreutils style as you prefer

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support multi-author commits.

Hi Jim, Sorry for the long wait. With the flooding in Bangkok affecting everything, I've had very spotted access to the Internet, otherwise I would have responded sooner. On 1 Nov 2011, at 20:09, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: More generally useful gnulib-local goodness from my

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

is already known, via the associated patch. Gary V. Vaughan wrote: This is a confusion brought about by the 'Tiny change' misnomer I think. If it were a simple matter of counting lines, then you would be entirely correct of course, but what about a refactoring that moves code around

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support multi-author commits.

I omitted the ChangeLog and git log entry for the commit-msg script, now fixed in my private branch as follows: On 15 Nov 2011, at 12:04, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: The FSF cares about keeping track of all authors of patches to its projects, but Git doesn't provide obvious support for multi

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

their patch generates, or by running git diff). Even if somewhere you've felt insistence on this issue, let's just write request: (tiny change) is more than a request. That is my impression too. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] ptsname_r: new module

and doubling of `ten' frequently, so no one will misunderstand those mis-spellings :) Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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

Ping Karl... Depending on your thoughts, I will resubmit this patch series for gnulib rather than keeping the patches solely in Libtool's tree. On 1 Nov 2011, at 20:56, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 1 Nov 2011, at 20:13, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: diff --git a/ChangeLog b

[PATCH 1/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support multi-author commits.

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +2011-11-01 Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org + + gitlog-to-changelog: support multi-author commits. + The FSF cares about keeping track of all authors of patches to its + projects, but Git doesn't provide obvious support for multi-author + changesets. Consensus

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

insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index f370be6..d59d9f9 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@ 2011-11-01 Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org + gitlog-to-changelog: support `tiny change' commits. + The FSF insist that all non-trivial patches

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

Hi Jim, Karl, On 1 Nov 2011, at 20:13, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index f370be6..d59d9f9 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@ 2011-11-01 Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org +gitlog-to-changelog: support `tiny change

Re: [PATCH 3/3] maint: use gnulib's gitlog-to-changelog instead of a ChangeLog file.

Hi Peter, On 31 Oct 2011, at 22:24, Peter Rosin wrote: Gary V. Vaughan skrev 2011-10-23 18:17: We already have to enter all the ChangeLog relevant information into the git commit log. Instead of worrying about keeping them all in sync, this patch generates the current year ChangeLog from

Re: [PATCH] GNUmakefile: reenable make syntax-check for most projects

that does not override the default. Oh, ouch. Sorry about that. I should have tested without a cfg.mk override before submitting, but didn't think to look because it was working fine in my tree without the patch. My bad. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable.

Hi Jim, On 27 Oct 2011, at 22:02, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 25 Oct 2011, at 15:18, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 25 Oct 2011, at 15:05, Jim Meyering wrote: Actually, I think we can both get what we want. I suggest to adjust your patch so that make is guaranteed to fail

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable.

Hi Jim, On 25 Oct 2011, at 15:18, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 25 Oct 2011, at 15:05, Jim Meyering wrote: Actually, I think we can both get what we want. I suggest to adjust your patch so that make is guaranteed to fail with a nice diagnostic for anyone who defines build_aux in cfg.mk. It's

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable.

Hi Jim, On 25 Oct 2011, at 00:37, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: _build-aux = libltdl/build-aux Wouldn't that break things for those who customize build_aux? Ah, I see what you mean now (will it break for clients who are customizing with build_aux already). No, I don't think

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable.

be very happy to hear about it... in the mean time, I'll try to remember not to reply to bug-gnulib on my iPad over morning coffee. Gary V. Vaughan wrote: To what advantage over factoring out the duplication entirely at the source of the problem with the patch I submitted? Not breaking some

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable.

Hi Jim, On 25 Oct 2011, at 00:37, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I was wondering why 'make stable' would always use a stale version unless I manually updated my .version file first. It turns out that if you use a non-standard build-aux location, you have to tell

Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

Hi Stefano, On 23 Oct 2011, at 00:20, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi everybody. Just my two cents about this matter ... On Saturday 22 October 2011, Bruno Haible wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Running the (potentially) outdated configure, to build a (potentially) outdated Makefile, which may

[PATCH] maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable.

-23 Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org + + maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable. + * maint.mk (build_aux): Removed. The maintainer-makefile module + depends on GNUmakefile, which already maintains a cfg.mk + overridable $(_build-aux) for projects with a non

Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

Hi Jim, On 22 Oct 2011, at 03:06, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: As it stands (without this patch), README-release recommends: git checkout master git pull ./configure make maintainer-clean ./bootstrap Running the (potentially) outdated configure, to build

Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

Hi Jim, On 22 Oct 2011, at 17:15, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: If you want to clean the cruft out of your working directories before starting the release process, you should do it before you change branches and merge changes from upstream, using the Makefile that you already

[PATCH] README-release improvements

a script relative to the current directory unless . is in the command search PATH. List the standard GNU email addresses to announce a release. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 25790a6..8b0f6a5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ +2011-10-21 Gary V. Vaughan g

Re: a saner bootstrap script

Hi Bruno, On 21 Oct 2011, at 06:58, Bruno Haible wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On the other hand, if by incremental you really mean chunking my rewrite into patches that add a function here and there, and disable bits of the old script when they are no longer called, then I could

Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

the Autoconf manual, chapter Portable Shell Programming, updated. I had misremembered my old bash-2.05 doing it that way, but I've long since moved to a zsh login shell which doesn't have that problem. I'll remove that and repost after addressing Jim's review too. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary

Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

Hi Jim, On 21 Oct 2011, at 15:17, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I made these changes in gnulib-local/top/README-release while making a start at leveraging the gnulib release machinery into GNU Libtool, but they seem generally applicable too. Thanks for the suggestions

Re: a saner bootstrap script

Hi Jim, On 19 Oct 2011, at 20:13, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Jim, please consider pulling it into coreutils master as a better fix than twidding Makefiles after the fact in bootstrap.conf. This -Iintl option will disappear with gettext version 0.19 - because then gettextize

[PATCH] Fix coreutils -Iintl vs gnulib gettext [WAS Re: a saner bootstrap script]

Ping? On 16 Oct 2011, at 18:28, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 16 Oct 2011, at 15:58, Bruno Haible wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: If there is a bug in gnulib-tool, or autopoint that puts unnecessary 'intl/' references into Makefiles when the presence of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in configure.ac

Re: a saner bootstrap script

Ping? On 16 Oct 2011, at 12:50, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 16 Oct 2011, at 04:15, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Is there anything else I can do to help you incorporate this, and the matching bootstrap.conf I wrote for you into coreutils now that the release is out

Re: a saner bootstrap script

Hi Jim, On 20 Oct 2011, at 23:44, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 19 Oct 2011, at 20:13, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Jim, please consider pulling it into coreutils master as a better fix than twidding Makefiles after the fact in bootstrap.conf. This -Iintl

[PATCH] maint.mk: Respect $(build_aux) in web-manual rule.

100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2011-10-19 Gary V. Vaughan g

[PATCH] Fix coreutils -Iintl vs gnulib gettext [WAS Re: a saner bootstrap script]

Ping? On 16 Oct 2011, at 18:28, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 16 Oct 2011, at 15:58, Bruno Haible wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: If there is a bug in gnulib-tool, or autopoint that puts unnecessary 'intl/' references into Makefiles when the presence of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in configure.ac

Re: a saner bootstrap script

Ping? On 16 Oct 2011, at 12:50, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 16 Oct 2011, at 04:15, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Is there anything else I can do to help you incorporate this, and the matching bootstrap.conf I wrote for you into coreutils now that the release is out

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