Re: autoconf-2.72d released [beta]

2023-12-04 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 16:51 -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: > We are pleased to announce beta release 2.72d of Autoconf. (Versions > 2.72a, 2.72b, and 2.72c were development snapshots, not official alpha > or beta releases.) > > 2.72 will be a minor bug-fix release. The most significant changes > ar

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-04-01 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2023-03-31 at 19:53 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2023-03-28 13:57, Richard Purdie wrote: > > From a regression/failure point of view, the worrying issue is the > > gpgme/mpg123 issue on x32 which also appears for musl 32 and 64 bit x86 > > ta

Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-29 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2023-03-29 at 01:53 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Richard Purdie wrote: > > > We run autoreconf against most things. > > > ... > > > gettext 0.21.1: > > > ... > > > > The latter two look like they're as I'm missing the gnulib f

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-28 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 09:03 -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 7:23 AM Richard Purdie > wrote: > > I was able to work around the EGREP_TRADITIONAL issue by reordering > > macros. The issue is conditional code blocks which mean > > EGREP_TRADITIONAL was n

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-28 Thread Richard Purdie
I was able to work around the EGREP_TRADITIONAL issue by reordering macros. The issue is conditional code blocks which mean EGREP_TRADITIONAL was not set in some configure option combinations leading to obtuse failures. Our testing so far shows the following three sets of issues. Macro ordering

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-28 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 09:18 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 08:44 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 08:38 -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > > > We're overdue for a new release, so here's a snapshot in preparation > > >

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-28 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 08:44 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 08:38 -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > > We're overdue for a new release, so here's a snapshot in preparation > > for that, which I want to call 2.73 (skipping 2.72). There has never > >

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-28 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 08:38 -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > We're overdue for a new release, so here's a snapshot in preparation > for that, which I want to call 2.73 (skipping 2.72). There has never > been an autoconf-2.72 release, yet `git describe` now prints 2.72c and > has been printing strings

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-11-11 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 08:38 +, Sam James wrote: > In Gentoo, we've been planning out what we should do for time64 on glibc [0] > and concluded that we need some support in glibc for a newer option. I'll > outline > why below. > > Proposal: glibc gains two new build-time configure options: > *

Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-14 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2022-06-14 at 13:11 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > The resulting config.h is correct but pa.sh took almost 1 minute to run > the configure script, about ten times longer than dash takes to run the > same script. More than half of that time appears to be spent just > loading the program into p

Re: How to "bake in" configure args

2021-03-24 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2021-03-23 at 20:16 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote: > > > Is there a "standard" way to do this? Google kind of fails for this. > > I see that Gavin Smith already answered the question you asked, but > GraphicsMagick took a different tact.

Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-29 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 18:26 +, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > Thanks, I hadn't realised. The only two recipes we never autoreconf are > > binutils and gcc, instead we do some painful things to handle libtool > > issues so

Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-27 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 00:49 +, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > I've also not seen mention of it but the fact that GCC and the > > toolchain use an ancient version of autoconf has always been rather sad > > to me. > &g

Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-26 Thread Richard Purdie
Firstly, thanks for the 2.70 release! Yocto Project hasn't switched yet as whilst we tested it and reported issues, there was a last minute change which broke things for us. We'll get that sorted and upgrade. I am one of the lead developers of the Yocto Project and at its heart is OpenEmbedded whi