Hi David,
(this is a belated reply :)
On Jan 1, 2015, at 11:57 PM, autoconf-requ...@gnu.org
autoconf-requ...@gnu.org wrote:
Basically, ` ` becomes `_space_` and so on, for many more potentially tricky
characters.
The aim was to have freedom in relation to packages/filenames. It seems to
Autotools defaults to the 'v7' legacy tar format in GNU tar, through passing of
the '-o' parameter to GNU tar. Enabling this option results in errors for users
with 32 bit UIDs. For example, with the Open vSwitch package:
$ make dist
...
tardir=openvswitch-2.3.90 ${TAR-tar} chof -
On 01/05/2015 03:08 AM, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
Autotools defaults to the 'v7' legacy tar format in GNU tar, through passing
of the '-o' parameter to GNU tar. Enabling this option results in errors for
users with 32 bit UIDs. For example, with the Open vSwitch package:
'make dist' is under
On 01/05/2015 03:08 AM, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
Autotools defaults to the 'v7' legacy tar format in GNU tar, through
passing of the '-o' parameter to GNU tar. Enabling this option results in
errors for users with 32 bit UIDs. For example, with the Open vSwitch
package:
'make dist' is
On 01/05/2015 10:30 AM, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
On 01/05/2015 03:08 AM, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
Autotools defaults to the 'v7' legacy tar format in GNU tar, through
passing of the '-o' parameter to GNU tar. Enabling this option results in
errors for users with 32 bit UIDs. For example, with
On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:37:14 -0800, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
David A. Wheeler wrote:
E.g. when using AC_CHECK_PROG to search for sbcl, the generated makefile
would say:
SBCL = sbcl
That's easy to do without changing Autoconf. Put this in configure.ac:
On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 17:17 -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote:
It'd still be good to have a solution for spaces-in-directories.
I think the best way I can think of is via an M4 implemented API to
provide all path related functions for both creating and modifying as
well as rendering out into an
