Re: GMP bootstrap fails with Autoconf 2.69d

2020-11-16 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 16 Nov 2020, at 11:41, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2020-11-16 10:29:13 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote: >>> On 16 Nov 2020, at 01:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> If I understand correctly, the goal is to have the Reporting-Bugs.html >>> URL together with the e-mail address. >> >> Yes, and such

Re: GMP bootstrap fails with Autoconf 2.69d

2020-11-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-11-16 10:29:13 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote: > > On 16 Nov 2020, at 01:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > If I understand correctly, the goal is to have the Reporting-Bugs.html > > URL together with the e-mail address. > > Yes, and such a feature is not supported. > >

Re: GMP bootstrap fails with Autoconf 2.69d

2020-11-16 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 16 Nov 2020, at 01:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2020-11-15 23:49:10 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote: >> One can also have an additional URL argument, which defines a variable >> PACKAGE_URL: >> >> AC_INIT(GNU MP, GMP_VERSION, [gmp-bugs@gmplib.org (see >>

Re: GMP bootstrap fails with Autoconf 2.69d

2020-11-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-11-15 23:49:10 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote: > One can also have an additional URL argument, which defines a variable > PACKAGE_URL: > > AC_INIT(GNU MP, GMP_VERSION, [gmp-bugs@gmplib.org (see > https://gmplib.org/manual/Reporting-Bugs.html)], gmp, [https://gmplib.org/]) If I understand

Re: GMP bootstrap fails with Autoconf 2.69d

2020-11-15 Thread Marc Glisse
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Paul Eggert wrote: The Autoconf manual has long said that the 3rd argument of AC_INIT must be an email address. Which is a bad idea, we don't want people blindly sending an email, we want them to read instructions first. A URL makes more sense. To fix the problem, I

GMP bootstrap fails with Autoconf 2.69d

2020-11-15 Thread Paul Eggert
Autoconf 2.70 is about to be released, and some people have been using prereleases to build lots of GNU packages. They've run into a problem with GMP, though, because GMP uses AC_INIT in a way contrary to the Autoconf manual, and changes in Autoconf mean that GMP's "./.bootstrap" procedure