tags 11803 notabug close 11803 thanks Hi Karl.
On 06/28/2012 12:06 AM, Karl Berry wrote: > I saw there has been some discussion on bug-gnulib about removing > "missing" and some of the other "internal" autotools helper scripts from > gnulib. That makes sense, but I didn't see a final conclusion to the > discussion? > Here it is: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-06/msg00352.html> So we have basically agreed that gnulib should stop syncing 'missing' from the Automake repository; as well as other scripts that are to be considered "implementation details" of Automake. > Meanwhile, I have been unable to autoupdate missing from automake to > gnulib -- maybe it's just as well -- because there is a trailing space > on what is currently line 138, namely the "blank" line between these > other two: > > printf '%s\n' "'$1' is $msg." > > configure_deps="'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'" > This seem like a bug in the autoupdate process -- why fail hard just for trailing whitespaces? While I agree they are annoying and ugly, a simple warning should suffice, no? Anyway, I'll soon commit a patch to fix all the instances of trailing whitespace in the Automake. Thanks, Stefano