Re: ARM 64 bit support (aarch64) starting with autoconf 2.69

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Nov 24, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello Jeff, > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >> There's perhaps portability issues moving to later AutoFu >> (but I use autoconf 2.69 all the time in popt). >> >> Likely the easiest fix is to rerun autogen.sh (or use autoreconf)

Re: ARM 64 bit support (aarch64) starting with autoconf 2.69

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello Jeff, On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > There's perhaps portability issues moving to later AutoFu > (but I use autoconf 2.69 all the time in popt). > > Likely the easiest fix is to rerun autogen.sh (or use autoreconf): > you could just do that on aarch64 as well. > > Will that

Re: ARM 64 bit support (aarch64) starting with autoconf 2.69

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Nov 24, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello all, > > support for the ARM 64 bit CPU architecture (aarch64) was introduced > in autoconf 2.69. popt appears to use an earlier version of autoconf, > preventing its being built. > > Is there a realistic chance to bump AC_PREREQ() from

ARM 64 bit support (aarch64) starting with autoconf 2.69

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, support for the ARM 64 bit CPU architecture (aarch64) was introduced in autoconf 2.69. popt appears to use an earlier version of autoconf, preventing its being built. Is there a realistic chance to bump AC_PREREQ() from AC_PREREQ(2.57) to AC_PREREQ(2.69)? But that might be heavy just

Re: popt has problems with unicode characters

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
Are you entering unicode directly into popt table strings? If so, then use gettext(3) and a N_("...") wrapper. There are still issues with unicode and alignment: popt does not use wide characters (which were largely non-existent outside of M$ when popt was written). The remaining issues cannot b

Re: Patch from Fedora containing popt(3) manpage fixes

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello Jeff, On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > My brainfart, sorry. The 1st patch I applied made the changes and I got > tricked. > > Now checked in. awesome, thank you! Greetings, Robert pgpDQ8bcfzb8W.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Patch from Fedora containing popt(3) manpage fixes

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Nov 24, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello Jeff, > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >> Hmmm ... what is checked into cvs is already fixed (so likely fixed since >> popt-1.16): >> ... >> .RB "arguments. When " --usage " or " --help " are passed to programs which >> u

Re: Patch from Fedora containing popt(3) manpage fixes

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello Jeff, On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > Hmmm ... what is checked into cvs is already fixed (so likely fixed since > popt-1.16): > ... > .RB "arguments. When " --usage " or " --help " are passed to programs which > use popt's automatic help, popt displays the appropriate message

Re: Patch from Fedora containing popt(3) manpage fixes

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello Jeff, > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >> AFAICT, the spell corrections here @rpm5.org >> >>- devzero2000: fix misspelling >> Fix misspelling using http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check >> >> are now being retu

Re: Patch from Fedora containing popt(3) manpage fixes

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello Jeff, On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > AFAICT, the spell corrections here @rpm5.org > > - devzero2000: fix misspelling > Fix misspelling using http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check > > are now being returned as a patch from Fedora. whoops...you are partially right.

Re: POPT_CONTEXT_NO_EXEC and POPT_CONTEXT_POSIXMEHARDER not documented

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello all, > > I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was > reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a > downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: > >

Re: apparently wrong types in the manpage

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello all, > > I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was > reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a > downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: > >

apparently wrong types in the manpage

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: - Forwarded message - Hi. The manpage has the following table

Re: man page does not document whether dynamically allocated memory has to be freed

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
The problem cannot be documented for POPT_ARG_ARGV because the behavior is dependent on how POPT is built. Traditionally (to minimize memory fragmentation), an ARGV array was allocated in one continuous memory chunk so that a single free released both the array and all the strings. Depending on h

POPT_CONTEXT_NO_EXEC and POPT_CONTEXT_POSIXMEHARDER not documented

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: - Forwarded message - Hi. The popt(3) manpage does basically n

undocumented functions

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: - Forwarded message - Hi. It seems to me, that the function po

popt has problems with unicode characters

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: - Forwarded message - Hi. Popt has apparently problems with un

man page does not document whether dynamically allocated memory has to be freed

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, I am forwarding a message of Christoph Anton Mitterer (Cc'ed) which was reported at Red Hat Bugzilla. However this does not feel for me like a downstream thing but more relevant for popt upstream, thus relaying it: - Forwarded message - Hi. Popt has the options to "automatical

Re: Patch from Fedora containing popt(3) manpage fixes

2013-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Nov 24, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello all, > Hi Robert! > attached is a patch by John Bradshaw who provided a patch to Fedora > containing some popt(3) manpage fixes. Aside from some definate typos I > am not absolutely sure about the changes...as a non-native speaker. >

Patch suggestion to use $(libdir)/pkgconfig rather $(prefix)/lib/pkgconfig

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, attached is a tiny patch suggestion to use $(libdir)/pkgconfig rather $(prefix)/lib/pkgconfig. Background is, that current causes on Fedora x86_64 "/usr/lib/pkgconfig" while it should be "/usr/lib64/pkgconfig". Using $(libdir)/pkgconfig rather $(prefix)/lib/pkgconfig seems to be common

Patch from Fedora to return something semi-meaningful on exec alias fail

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, attached is a patch by Panu Matilainen who provided a patch to Fedora to return something semi-meaningful on exec alias fail. But as I am not a C developer, I do not have any clue if this patch is good or bad. However it is applied in Fedora already for some time and doesn't seem to cau

Patch from Fedora containing popt(3) manpage fixes

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello all, attached is a patch by John Bradshaw who provided a patch to Fedora containing some popt(3) manpage fixes. Aside from some definate typos I am not absolutely sure about the changes...as a non-native speaker. However, please review that patch and if suitable apply it for the next popt r