Re: [PATCH 7/7] Prefer $NM @file over calculating the cmd line length.

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Rosin wrote on Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 02:24:18PM CEST: Subject: [PATCH 7/7] Prefer $NM @file when the toolchain isn't native to $build. * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): Avoid calculating the command line length and take the @file branch *if* the file names

Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Another go at LTO support

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches/10424 * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 06:18:05PM CEST: OK, so the issues I had with http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches/9767 was both changing output_verbose_link_cmd to something that might work worse

How many spaces after a period? [WAS: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Prefer $NM @file over calculating the cmd line length.]

2010-09-12 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 12 Sep 2010, at 15:01, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Peter Rosin wrote on Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 02:24:18PM CEST: * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): Avoid calculating the command line length and take the @file branch *if* the file names needs to be converted for the toolchain and the

Re: How many spaces after a period? [WAS: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Prefer $NM @file over calculating the cmd line length.]

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:23:52AM CEST: On 12 Sep 2010, at 15:01, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Peter Rosin wrote on Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 02:24:18PM CEST: * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): Avoid calculating the command line length and take the

Re: getopt-m4sh tests failures with autom4te 2.61

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:36:54PM CEST: Hi Gary, I get testsuite failures of the first six tests with autom4te 2.61 early in PATH (the testsuite itself has been created with 2.67). See below for an example failure. Maybe getopt-m4sh.at really relies on = 2.62?

Re: getopt-m4sh tests failures with autom4te 2.61

2010-09-12 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 12 Sep 2010, at 16:42, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:36:54PM CEST: Hi Gary, Hallo Ralf, Sorry I didn't see the original yet... I still have 400 emails backed up in my Inbox. :( I get testsuite failures of the first six tests with autom4te 2.61

Re: static FORTRAN compilation set-up in libtool.m4

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 07:41:25PM CEST: That's fine. Any support for nagfor is an improvement over no support. I've pushed the patch below to git master of Libtool now. Please test as described before, if at all possible. I changed the pic flag to -PIC so also large

test with old autotools (was: [PATCH 1/6] Require Automake 1.11.1 for Libtool, enable color-tests.)

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Gary, you wanted a way to test old Autoconf and Automake with a git Libtool tree: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 05:41:52PM CEST: On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:30, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 05:24:05PM CEST: Of course, that doesn't

Re: test with old autotools (was: [PATCH 1/6] Require Automake 1.11.1 for Libtool, enable color-tests.)

2010-09-12 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 12 Sep 2010, at 17:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: you wanted a way to test old Autoconf and Automake with a git Libtool tree: Awesome, thanks :) [[snip]] At this point, I'm not actually asking to commit this now. Consider it a test balloon that you could use in your git tree to test things.

Re: test with old autotools

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:58:23PM CEST: On 12 Sep 2010, at 17:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: 0001-Try-out-new-testsuite-with-old-Autoconf-and-Automake.patch You forgot to `git add tests/old-autoconf.at' before you generated the patch though... D'oh. That's what you

Fix AC_NO_EXECUTABLES test failure on IRIX 6.5.

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I'm pushing this bugfix to fix this failure on IRIX with GCC (log already expired; Simon bumped the timeout to 24 days now): ../../libtool/tests/no-executables.at:75: : ${CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh}; export CONF IG_SHELL; $CONFIG_SHELL ./configure $configure_options stderr: configure: WARNING:

[PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Correct static lib symbol extraction failure.

2010-09-12 Thread Charles Wilson
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): When prefer_static_libs, ensure old_library name is used as linklib when possible. --- This patch corrects the (long-standing?) failure of mdemo-exec.test on mingw, but also some non-fatal anomalies in cygwin on the same tests. Basically, when

doc: wrapping, categorizing, and indexing improvements.

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I paged through the PDF version of the manual looking for long lines, and went through the index looking for markup errors and wrong entries like '(void)' stemming from wrong number of arguments to @deftypefun and the like: there must be a space after } in @deftypefun {const char

Re: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Correct static lib symbol extraction failure.

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Charles, * Charles Wilson wrote on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:19:51PM CEST: * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): When prefer_static_libs, ensure old_library name is used as linklib when possible. --- This patch corrects the (long-standing?) failure of mdemo-exec.test on mingw, but

Re: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Correct static lib symbol extraction failure.

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 04:20:13PM CEST: * Charles Wilson wrote on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:19:51PM CEST: * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): When prefer_static_libs, ensure old_library name is used as linklib when possible. Why does the patch have

tests: work around zsh use of $options variable.

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
../../libtool/tests/getopt-m4sh.at:93: $SHELL ./options -fvi + /usr/local/bin/zsh ./options -fvi --- /dev/null 2010-09-12 14:28:42.575801479 + +++ /tmp/build/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/1/stderr 2010-09-12 14:28:42.634930285 + @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +./options:950: options: attempt to set

Re: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Correct static lib symbol extraction failure.

2010-09-12 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/12/2010 10:20 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Charles, * Charles Wilson wrote on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:19:51PM CEST: * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): When prefer_static_libs, ensure old_library name is used as linklib when possible. --- This patch corrects the

Re: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Correct static lib symbol extraction failure.

2010-09-12 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/12/2010 10:25 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Also, $linklib is used for several other things. It would seem prudent to make sure it is clear that this is a very intrusive patch, or use another helper variable to make it less intrusive. Oh, I think linklib was *wrong* no matter what. If you

Re: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Correct static lib symbol extraction failure.

2010-09-12 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/12/2010 10:20 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I suggest you commit it so that it can be included in the testing. Pushed as: When assigning $linklib value, honor [-all]-static[-libtool-libs] * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): When prefer_static_libs and static library exists,

tests: avoid empty AT_DATA contents, for zsh.

2010-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
This fixes the remaining testsuite failures with zsh 4.3.10 on FreeBSD. cat file EOF EOF produces an empty file with sh, but a file containing a newline with zsh, even after 'emulate sh'. autoconf.texi patch coming up too, I guess. Cheers, Ralf tests: avoid empty AT_DATA contents, for

Re: [PATCH] * HACKING (Maintenance Notes): Adjust to moved files.

2010-09-12 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-09-11 23:18 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: * Peter Rosin wrote on Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:02:54PM CEST: I noticed that HACKING referred to files that have been moved. Should I also add libltdl/config/compile? Yes, plase. But that one does not appear to be handled by make

[PATCH] * .gitignore: Ignore *.obj files for MSVC (and w32 in general).

2010-09-12 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! I have pushed this as obvious. Cheers, Peter From 52e86c62786b95f91f32e7020f7eaf3c1be9a59b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:43:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * .gitignore: Ignore *.obj files for MSVC (and w32 in general). --- .gitignore |

Re: How many spaces after a period? [WAS: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Prefer $NM @file over calculating the cmd line length.]

2010-09-12 Thread Karl Berry
Baffled on several fronts ... declaring `...@frenchspacing on' conversely indicates the use of a single space at the end of a sentence - the exact opposite of how the term is normally used: No, it is not the opposite, it is the normal meaning. Turning on French spacing means

Re: doc: wrapping, categorizing, and indexing improvements.

2010-09-12 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, On 12 Sep 2010, at 21:12, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I paged through the PDF version of the manual looking for long lines, and went through the index looking for markup errors and wrong entries like '(void)' stemming from wrong number of arguments to @deftypefun and the like: there

Re: How many spaces after a period?

2010-09-12 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Karl, Thanks for the swift response. On 13 Sep 2010, at 05:01, Karl Berry wrote: Baffled on several fronts ... declaring `...@frenchspacing on' conversely indicates the use of a single space at the end of a sentence - the exact opposite of how the term is normally used: No,