Akim Demaille wrote:
Le 23 mai 2012 à 10:02, Akim Demaille a écrit :
The two attached patches provide minor improvements to
announce-gen. The first one was prompted by the fact
that I had an error message whose origin was unclear.
Hi Akim,
Thanks for the patches!
* build-aux/announce-gen:
Akim Demaille wrote:
A simple sed syntax issue, and while at it, a small simplification.
* top/maint.mk (gpg_key_ID): End blocks with a semicolon before
the closing brace.
(refresh-po): Fuse two sed invocations into one.
Thanks!
I've adjusted the log.
maint.mk is big; saying that only the
Akim Demaille wrote:
Hi Jim!
Le 23 mai 2012 à 10:34, Jim Meyering a écrit :
* build-aux/announce-gen: When parsing command line options,
prefer announce-gen: option --release-type requires an argument
to Option release-type requires an argument.
This is an improvement, but for the fact
Akim Demaille wrote:
Hi Jim,
What do you think about the attached proposal? It started here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-05/msg00217.html
Le 15 mai 2012 à 10:02, Akim Demaille a écrit :
Le 14 mai 2012 à 17:19, Akim Demaille a écrit :
Akim Demaille wrote:
Le 22 mai 2012 à 11:42, Jim Meyering a écrit :
Hi Akim,
Hi!
That looks fine, with this change squashed in.
Ok with you?
Sure! That's perfect, thanks!
Pushed ;-)
Bruno Haible wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote on 2012-01-10:
We deprecated ignore_ptr a year ago:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3784/focus=3802
So I've removed it.
...
+2012-01-10 Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
+
+ignore-value: remove deprecated
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
The 'bootstrap' script offered by Gnulib script already uses POSIX
shell features (like $((...)) arithmetic expansions) that are not
supported by legacy Bourne shells like Solaris 10 /bin/sh. This
means that bootstrap must already be run using a proper POSIX shell,
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Hi Jim.
On 05/13/2012 10:31 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
...
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ check_versions() {
# GNU automake-ng) when asked their version.
case $app in
automake-ng|aclocal-ng)
-app
Eric Blake wrote:
...
Meanwhile, no one ever reviewed my proposed doc patch:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-04/msg00167.html
Links to mailman-archived messages are hard to read
the moment they contain a few @ (address@obfuscated) signs,
so texinfo is much easier to read via
Akim Demaille wrote:
I have submitted this patch several times in this thread (starting at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-04/msg00049.html),
and for some reason it remains unnoticed, and uncommented. Please let
me know what is wrong in my approach.
I would like to wrap a
FYI, I've pushed these two patches:
From a396e729684ec533c504dd3e619f669834821688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 10:55:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] init.sh: don't let bash aliases interfere with tests
* tests/init.sh: Undefine any pre
Jim Meyering wrote:
Akim Demaille wrote:
...
The attached patch enhances warnings.m4 in several ways:
- gl_COMPILER_OPTION_IF allows to define more fine grain tests on the
behavior of the compiler. Forcing the result to be an assignment to
a variable (which is AC_SUBST'ed) does not seem
Bruno Haible wrote:
This cross-compilation guess is also suboptimal:
checking for d_ino member in directory struct... no
since d_ino is known to work on glibc/Linux since ever:
glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/dirent.h is essentially unchanged since
1997.
2012-05-05 Bruno Haible
Bruno Haible wrote:
Another suboptimal cross-compilation guess is
checking whether tzset clobbers localtime buffer... yes
This fixes it.
2012-05-05 Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org
tzset: Avoid guessing wrong when cross-compiling to glibc systems.
* m4/tzset.m4
Bruno Haible wrote:
Another suboptimal cross-compilation guess is
checking for working nanosleep... cross-compiling
This test has 3 possible results:
- yes, it works, no override needed.
- no (mishandles large arguments), means it works halfway, the
override in lib/nanosleep.c
Bruno Haible wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
However, I would find the above code easier to read if it were
written on fewer lines:
case $host_os in
*-gnu*) $1 ;; # Guess yes on glibc systems.
*) $2 ;; # If we don't know, assume the worst.
esac
Will it also work if $1
Bruno Haible wrote:
2) On glibc systems, which are often used as cross-compilation targets
(think of embedded systems (routers, map navigation devices, etc.)),
the cross-compilation guesses should better be correct. I.e. when
no problem is known on glibc systems or Linux, the
Bruno Haible wrote:
When cross-compiling, canonicalize.m4 also guesses wrong:
checking whether realpath works... guessing no
This should fix it. Objections?
This looks fine. Thanks.
2012-05-01 Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org
canonicalize[-lgpl]: Avoid guessing no when
Bruno Haible wrote:
When cross-compiling, I also see this wrong guess:
checking whether gettimeofday clobbers localtime buffer... yes
This proposed patch should improve it. OK to apply, Jim Paul?
2012-05-01 Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org
gettimeofday: Avoid bad guess when
Bruno Haible wrote:
When cross-compiling, configure also reports wrongly:
checking whether lstat correctly handles trailing slash... no
Here is a proposed patch. Jim, OK to apply?
2012-05-01 Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org
lstat: Avoid guessing no when cross-compiling to glibc
Bruno Haible wrote:
Configure outputs when cross-compiling:
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... no
checking for GNU libc compatible realloc... no
Here's a proposed patch for improving the guess for glibc targets.
Again, the question is whether to modify the macro in Autoconf
get a slightly better perspective
when viewing the diff ignoring space changes.
diff --git a/m4/getgroups.m4 b/m4/getgroups.m4
index 796a831..a642a07 100644
--- a/m4/getgroups.m4
+++ b/m4/getgroups.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# serial 17
+# serial 18
dnl From Jim Meyering.
dnl A wrapper around
Aharon Robbins wrote:
...
And I got an official email from the FSF legal elves that my paperwork
was received. :-)
In general, you(as a gnu maintainer) can check copyright
assignment status with a command like like this:
ssh fencepost.gnu.org grep -i 'gnulib.*robbins' \~gnuorg/copyright.list
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
* bootstrap (check_versions): Handle automake and aclocal from
Automake-NG specially. They can be specified as respectively
the automake-ng and aclocal-ng requirements.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com
---
build-aux/bootstrap | 17
Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/25/2012 07:04 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
We need to fix gnulib to not force us to use gettext 0.18. I'll look
into this.
Here's what I'm playing with now; so far, it appears to make life happy
for libvirt with its intentional AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17]). Jim,
does
Eric Blake wrote:
[trimming cc's for now]
On 04/25/2012 09:38 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Another possible alternative: install the precise 0.17 Makefile.in.in
via libvirt's gnulib-local, so that when gnulib-tool runs, we are back
to bootstrap picking up the version that we know we want to use
Eric Blake wrote:
RHEL 5 still ships with libtool 1.5.22, where libtoolize lacks the
--install option but has that behavior by default. And gnulib's
DEPENDENCIES file states that we still support that old of libtool
as our minimum version.
* build-aux/bootstrap (use_libtool): Cater to
.
+
2012-04-16 Akim Demaille a...@lrde.epita.fr
and Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Thanks for tracking that down.
However, rather than handling just that one cd,
how about ensuring that no use of cd in this script
can cause such trouble? To do that, you would unset CDPATH
somewhere near
Reuben Thomas wrote:
I have Digest::SHA installed, but I still get an error about being
unable to find Digest::SHA1:
$ perl -e 'use Digest::SHA;'
$ perl build-aux/announce-gen
Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/home/rrt/local/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/lib/perl/5.14.2
Reuben Thomas wrote:
On 14 April 2012 20:17, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote:
On 14 April 2012 19:44, Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org wrote:
Reuben Thomas wrote:
I see that gnulib has its own cfg.mk which is used, for example, to
skip some syntax-check checks on gnulib's own code.
...
I
5a206b3d9b45550b1c4a928cd51deaf1438cb4c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:22:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] configmake: correct minor inconsistency in Makefile rule
* modules/configmake (Makefile.am): All other rules like this one
run the final mv -f ... in the same
Akim Demaille wrote:
Le 16 avr. 2012 à 12:16, Jim Meyering a écrit :
diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index 31eb651..d749fe2 100755
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#! /bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2012-02-11.09
Akim Demaille wrote:
Le 16 avr. 2012 à 12:16, Jim Meyering a écrit :
diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index 31eb651..d749fe2 100755
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#! /bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2012-02-11.09
Akim Demaille wrote:
FWIW, it does catch things in Bison's documentation:
texinfo_see_xref
8008:@option{--verbose} are specified, see @xref{Invocation, , Invoking
10255:See @pxref{Java Action Features}.
10271:left-hand side of assignments. See @pxref{Java Semantic Values} and
10288:that
Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/16/2012 12:22 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -932,8 +932,11 @@ sc_prohibit_doubled_word:
# A regular expression matching undesirable combinations of words like
# can not; this matches them even when the two words appear on different
# lines
Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/16/2012 12:22 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -932,8 +932,11 @@ sc_prohibit_doubled_word:
# A regular expression matching undesirable combinations of words like
# can not; this matches them even when the two words appear
Jim Meyering wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/16/2012 12:22 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -932,8 +932,11 @@ sc_prohibit_doubled_word:
# A regular expression matching undesirable combinations of words like
# can not; this matches them even when the two
://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html
that option was added in 4.6, not 4.3.
I've pushed this:
From d4cecf1ee37f6b611ef092c9c7fa3761d02ce2c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:32:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] regex: correct #pragma guard expression
Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
On 26/03/2012 7.33, Jim Meyering wrote:
Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
On 25/03/2012 6.58, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 03/24/2012 09:28 PM, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
While compiling regex module one android I've discovered a problem
that on other 32bit compiler is only a warning
Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
On 25/03/2012 6.58, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 03/24/2012 09:28 PM, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
While compiling regex module one android I've discovered a problem
that on other 32bit compiler is only a warning
...
it's correct, but I think an ifdef may be used instead since
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
...
[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=automake
(As a partial off-topic: is there any way to shut this down? Since we don't
use the savannah tracker, allowing new issues to be opened there is only going
to be cause of confusion or duplication).
Yes.
You (as
Reuben Thomas wrote:
Implementing Jim's suggestions.
From 3e6c32b5834341ee8d1870f7b85db546b1a1f2d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:17:22 +
Subject: [PATCH] announce-gen: make it use Digest::SHA where available.
*
Eric Wong wrote:
How about using the generic Digest module instead?
Something like this (totally untested) patch:
diff --git a/build-aux/announce-gen b/build-aux/announce-gen
index 3ca90a9..c453d44 100755
--- a/build-aux/announce-gen
+++ b/build-aux/announce-gen
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ my
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Folks,
the default operation (a) of `bootstrap' is clear:
1. The `gnulib' submodule URL is in file `.gitmodules'.
2. No special submodule entry in `.git/config'.
3. A (submodule) clone of `gnulib' is created.
4. All files of `gnulib' are checked out.
If I
Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/21/2012 01:44 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
git-submodule's --reference option looks like it does what you want.
However, balancing the repo duplication cost against the risk of error
described in git-clone's --reference and --shared descriptions, so far,
I have preferred
Reuben Thomas wrote:
Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing that does git push
--tags in README-release. Is that right? If so, I'll provide a patch.
You don't want to push all tags.
This pushes the just-created tag:
* Push the NEWS-updating changes and the new tag:
v=$(cat
Reuben Thomas wrote:
The following patch copes with a renamed module:
It appears that it hasn't been renamed, but rather replaced,
at least in Debian.
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks/Transitions/DigestSHA1ToDigestSHA
From: Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org
Date: Tue, 20
Hi Bruno,
Bruno Haible wrote:
[Removing platform-testers and the translation coordinator from the CC.]
Thanks.
I've adjusted my snapshot-announcement-creation script
to add a Mail-Followup-To: header, so that won't happen again.
Paul Eggert wrote:
... Bruno explained that this is a problem
Andreas Oberritter wrote:
Initialize (version-)prefix to prevent inheritance from
the build environment during autoreconf.
| sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unknown option to `s'
| configure.ac:55: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and
| version arguments
| aclocal.m4:594:
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 03/16/2012 02:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
the TABs (maybe required in glibc?)
Yes, that's right. Currently I'm having problems
getting mktime fixes back into glibc, and one of
the issues is that we expanded tabs to spaces.
What a hassle.
I know the pain ;-)
but would
Paul Eggert wrote:
I think we should give a repeat count too large error here. The regex
is being compiled to a different meaning than what the user intended.
Yes, definitely.
In testing, I noticed that we diagnose the range error
in the regexp path, but not in the DFA one, but haven't
FYI, trivial:
From 97a6d2487ec73f5093e8ebd59b8b843d37ed64e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:01:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] readtokens.c: adjust wording in a comment
* lib/readtokens.c: Insert omitted that in a comment.
---
ChangeLog
Simon Josefsson wrote:
I notice there are some gaps in copyright ranges in some build-aux
tools, for example:
csharpcomp.sh.in:# Copyright (C) 2003-2006, 2009-2012 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
csharpexec.sh.in:# Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2009-2012 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
Simon Josefsson wrote:
Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes:
Simon Josefsson wrote:
I notice there are some gaps in copyright ranges in some build-aux
tools, for example:
csharpcomp.sh.in:# Copyright (C) 2003-2006, 2009-2012 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
csharpexec.sh.in:# Copyright (C
Bruno Haible wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
if (STREQ (delim, \\0))
{
- delim = ;
+ delim = (char *) ;
delim_len = 1;
}
Instead of introducing this cast, how about making 'delim' a 'const char *'?
I see no code
FYI,
Without this, a package using only the quotearg module would
fail to compile due to the lack of the now-required quote.h.
From 825091834f1fca679e1547665edcbc083be85c35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 15:44:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH
compilation terminated.
Here's the proposed fix:
From 98ea8f52840376969518ff047b094f157a078d0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:14:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] frexp-nolibm-tests: include required test-frexp.h
* modules/frexp-nolibm-tests (Files
Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
+frexp-nolibm-tests: include required test-frexp.h
+* modules/frexp-nolibm-tests (Files): Add test-frexp.h, which
+is included by test-frexp.c.
+Also add tests/randomd.c, required due to test-frexp.h's use
+of RANDOM
FYI,
From eb213779301aa663ab84ac947e8e181e9ad554d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:35:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: don't specify XZ_OPT=-9ev in dist-related rule
Using xz's -9 option is warranted only if you have a very large
tarball
1b98d11e35032bd2ceb1c4a67b66d4655100eeea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:13:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: avoid spurious failure of _sc_search_regexp-using
tests
* top/maint.mk: Initialize _sc_search_regexp parameters, so that
envvar
fbca75fddb6918c0667783a7805847fc3bf78578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:02:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify a comment in system.h
* src/system.h (STRNCMP_LIT): Clarify comment.
Suggested by Bruno Haible.
---
src/system.h |2 +-
1 file
Jim Meyering wrote:
Akim Demaille wrote:
Also, FWIW, in Bison there are many more strcmp, but they do not
conform to the sc pattern.
src/ielr.c:if (0 == strcmp (type, lalr))
src/ielr.c:else if (0 == strcmp (type, ielr))
src/ielr.c:else if (0 == strcmp (type, canonical-lr
Akim Demaille wrote:
Le 24 févr. 2012 à 10:08, Jim Meyering a écrit :
Here's a complete patch, with the additional tweak of replacing
the other occurrence of str''cmp with $(s_).
Actually I don't think you need it. Ironically,
you need it only when not factoring it, and this
gives
Eric Blake wrote:
On 02/19/2012 10:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Thank you for the report and the patch.
Please tell us what type/version of compiler/system you're using.
It's good to include that information, especially since ssize_t
is supposed to be defined via
Karl Berry wrote:
The following files are/were all synced from automake. They had their
copyright years unified in gnulib. But not in automake. Can this be
resolved one way or another, please?
build-aux/ar-lib
build-aux/compile
build-aux/depcomp
build-aux/elisp-comp
Werner Koch wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:48, j...@meyering.net said:
Hard-coding --...
My point was that we may not want to hard-code --.
What if someone includes email with a -- line followed by a signature?
...
Okay. Here comes the fixed patch:
From
Reuben Thomas wrote:
Happily, Jim’s objections to some of my earlier suggestions removed a
great deal of the remaining patches I was going to suggest, so the
following is quite simple:
Thanks. Pushed.
by as configure and make ran.
Oops. Here's the fix:
From de009b65198c00dbe0ecd796ce75d5d9f5346103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:57:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: don't exit 0 upon gnulib-tool failure
* build-aux/bootstrap
Reuben Thomas wrote:
Ping? This is quite a simple patch, basically just a couple of
punctuation fixes!
Hi Reuben,
The patch is ok (capitalize one letter and insert a newline), but is
perhaps too small, especially since I think you have a few more affecting
the same file. I've gone ahead and
Paul Eggert wrote:
* lib/regcomp.c (init_dfa): Tighten overflow checks to test
...many patches...
Thank you for handling that tedious task!
Paul Eggert wrote:
I pushed these gnulib spelling fixes as obvious and trivial.
My fave was Free Softward Foundation.
Thanks!
What tool do you use for that?
It would be nice to have a batch spell-checker that we could run
periodically.
Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Jim,
That test fails on Fedora 16 and I didn't have time to investigate.
Here are details, and I'm Cc'ing bug-gnulib:
$ ./test-get-rusage-as
../../gltests/test-get-rusage-as.c:56: assertion failed
zsh: abort (core dumped) ./test-get-rusage-as
Can you
-rusage-as.c (main): Assign the malloc() results to
global variables.
* tests/test-get-rusage-data.c (main): Likewise.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
Nice! Thanks for investigating and fixing that.
I've undone the exclusion in idutils.
And thanks to Claudio for keeping me honest ;-)
Claudio Fontana wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
* bootstrap.conf (avoided_gnulib_modules): Disable the get-rusage-as
test: it's failing.
Hi Jim,
why are you disabling this test?
When I was maintaining
FYI,
From 93f8bee70d1bc611bead8a826edf0a932c2b8999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:12:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] file-has-acl: suppress a warning from gcc
-Wsuggest-attribute=const
* lib/file-has-acl.c (file_has_acl): This function
Eric Blake wrote:
The manual (gnulib-tool.texi) recommends including both builddir and
srcdir into AM_CPPFLAGS (aka INCLUDES if you are using automake 1.9),
which makes sense, since some headers come straight from gnulib and live
in srcdir, while other headers are generated based on configure
: also prohibit lower-case @var@
+ * top/maint.mk (sc_makefile_at_at_check): Enhance check to cover
+ lower case, like @top_srcdir@.
+
2012-02-02 Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
file-has-acl: suppress a warning from gcc -Wsuggest-attribute=const
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
On 01/30/2012 10:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Hi Nikos,
Have you considered pre-filtering the data you pass to the base64-decoding
function? We considered what you're proposing when adding the
--ignore-garbage option to the command-line base64 program:
Could
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
This patch makes the base64 decoding tolerant on carriage returns,
spaces and tabs. It is quite common to find PEM encoded files (base64
with new lines) containing such characters and having a tolerant decoder
is a plus.
Hi Nikos,
Have you considered
severity 10305 wishlist
tags 10305 + notabug
thanks
Eric Blake wrote:
On 12/21/2011 11:42 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 12/21/11 08:27, Eric Blake wrote:
maybe we should wrap opendir() so that the gnulib rpl_opendir()
always opens a directory at the same time
That sounds a bit drastic, but it
This is a prerequisite for a coreutils patch I'm about to post:
From bfb5863e350590d8fe9a643d840c7d0b5f3d934b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:30:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: sc_prohibit_canonicalize_without_use: avoid false
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...@sc3d.org wrote:
-* Ensure that the desired
FYI,
From e55b2563934c2d4b9c20c0d678a922e871aa25f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:16:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: use more readable (yet functionally equivalent)
quoting
It is common to quote a single quote in a single quoted
Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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
Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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
Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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
Bruno Haible wrote:
The recently added test-init.sh test fails on AIX 7.1:
--- exp 2012-01-28 18:51:15.0 +
+++ out 2012-01-28 18:51:15.0 +
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
--- empty
+++ in
- +xyz
+ + xyz
FAIL: test-init.sh
...
Hi Bruno,
Thanks for the analysis and
the FSF.
For everyone's benefit, the FSF confirmed that it is fine to do so
(case [gnu.org #719834]).
Thanks. Here's an adjusted version of update-copyright that
implements that.
From 87d33f7e78fcafd860fa3a53a39d4ad669a53f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date
Jim Meyering wrote:
Joel Brobecker wrote:
Yep, this is what we did for this year. I just want to go one step
further and just collapse all years into one single range, based on
the fact that I have verified that we have made significant changes
to at least one file each year since 1986
Reuben Thomas wrote:
Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD.
On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote:
A series of patches that attempt to improve a few minor formatting
problems and also streamline some of the steps.
...
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Author: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Mon Mar 21 09:45:01 2011 +0100
tests: skip annoyingly long gnulib lock tests
* bootstrap.conf (avoided_gnulib_modules): Skip the lock tests.
They take too long.
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index
how it always returns 0 for non-Windows systems.
IMHO, it's fine just to ignore failure in tests/*.c.
Since (void) works, I'm not bothering with ignore-value.h.
From 722f6dd800d2885c71106aa4ac79c7ae265822ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15
Eric Blake wrote:
On 01/21/2012 04:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
* man/autoconf.x: Remove empty line at EOF.
* man/autoheader.x: Likewise.
* man/autoscan.x: Likewise.
* man/autoupdate.x: Likewise.
* man/ifnames.x: Likewise.
* tests/compile.at: Likewise
Eric Blake wrote:
On 01/17/2012 11:44 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
* doc/INSTALL: Likewise.
* doc/INSTALL.ISO: Likewise.
* doc/INSTALL.UTF-8: Likewise.
These files are generated through doc/Makefile. Also, on text files
that consist of multiple paragraphs, I find it good (esthetic) to have
Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
On 01/17/2012 11:44 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
* doc/INSTALL: Likewise.
* doc/INSTALL.ISO: Likewise.
* doc/INSTALL.UTF-8: Likewise.
These files are generated through doc/Makefile. Also, on text files
that consist of multiple paragraphs, I find it good
Bruno Haible wrote:
I too would prefer to use Paul's patch and thus to remove the
doc/INSTALL* exemptions.
Bruno, I know it's not your preference, but would that be ok with you.
My objections were mostly esthetic, hence minor. You can decide to
ignore my esthetic preferences.
Thanks,
FYI,
From 2f1a477706b06256ddca33739a771e3d97d011f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:12:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: fail when bootstrap_post_import_hook fails
Otherwise, it's far too easy to miss diagnostics emitted
between gnulib
Joel E. Denny wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Jim Meyering wrote:
Below is a patch that adds a --no-cluster option, which I believe does
what Stefano wants. I want it too. OK to push?
Hi Joel,
Thanks. That looks fine, but please adjust the preceding comment
to keep in sync with the new
Bruno Haible wrote:
Paul Eggert wrote:
The cat INSTALL argument is not that persuasive
The other argument is that when viewing a file with vi and scrolling
through it, the cursor interrupts the reading flow when it is placed
on the last line and that line is not a blank one.
But of course,
Karl Berry wrote:
However, I am optimistic that I will be able to make matching
changes upstream.
Sorry, but for myself, I think it is a terrible waste of time to be
thinking about this for fdl*.texi. The blank lines don't hurt anything
Hi Karl,
I know this hurts your
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