Hi Ben,
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:10:32AM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wonder what's necessary to make the NEWS item explicit enough:
You sound a little frustrated. I hope I'm not causing that.
No, you are not causing any frustration. You are
Hello Paul, Ben,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:05:31PM CEST:
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is in AM_GLIB_DEFINE_LOCALEDIR from
m4macros/glib-gettext.m4 which hardcodes a double shell expansion:
localedir=`eval echo ${datadir}/locale`
First,
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
Well, the general topic is already in NEWS. I doubt whether the
Autoconf maintainers can keep track of which versions of which other
packages will run into problems with the datarootdir change (not to
mention half a dozen similar changes :-).
(Yes,
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
However, I wonder whether it's worth mentioning breakage of
important software like Gnome in Autoconf's NEWS (or elsewhere),
and I told Loïc that I'd make that suggestion here. Consider it
made :-)
I wonder what's necessary to
Hello,
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:36:17AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Gnome packages will break with the introduction of ${datarootdir}.
...
The problem is in AM_GLIB_DEFINE_LOCALEDIR from
m4macros/glib-gettext.m4 [...]
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343825
I added an example to
* Loïc Minier wrote on Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:51:03AM CEST:
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
First, Autoconf is supposed to warn about the suspicious usage of
datadir without defining datarootdir. Did the warning not work for
you? If so, can you show us how to reproduce the
Hi Loïc,
* Loïc Minier wrote on Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:43:06AM CEST:
I also had the feeling you were frustrated that I didn't see the NEWS
document prior to reporting this bug. I'm sorry that you spent extra
effort in properly documenting this, I should have checked NEWS and
requested
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All I want is that Debian's NEWS (which is presented to the end-user /
end-developer on upgrades) warns of important changes, and when a nice
document such as upstream's NEWS is already available, I consider that
all that is needed is a pointer to
Loïc Minier reported in the Debian package's bug system that
Gnome packages will break with the introduction of
${datarootdir}. It looks to me like the real problem is really
in the macro used by Gnome, and I've suggested that they fix it
using what the Autoconf manual suggests in the Defining
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:36:17PM CEST:
Loïc Minier reported in the Debian package's bug system that
Gnome packages will break with the introduction of
${datarootdir}. It looks to me like the real problem is really
in the macro used by Gnome, and I've suggested that they
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, I wonder whether it's worth mentioning breakage of
important software like Gnome in Autoconf's NEWS (or elsewhere),
Well, the general topic is already in NEWS. I doubt whether the
Autoconf maintainers can keep track of which versions of which other
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wonder what's necessary to make the NEWS item explicit enough:
- it's the single biggest item in the NEWS entries since 2.59.
- it's one of the two items that I've explicitly hinted at as well
in the 2.59c release notes.
I will mention it
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