Re: [PATCH] Add quotes in AS_IF test for gid_t

2024-02-07 Thread Sam James
Paul Eggert writes: > On 2/6/24 20:37, Nick Bowler wrote: >> On 2024-02-06 22:33, Sam James wrote: >>> Noticed when building Emacs: >>> ``` >>> * checking type of array argument to getgroups... ./configure: 42782: test: >>> =: unexpected operator &

Re: [PATCH] Add quotes in AS_IF test for gid_t

2024-02-07 Thread Sam James
Nick Bowler writes: > On 2024-02-06 22:33, Sam James wrote: >> Noticed when building Emacs: >> ``` >> * checking type of array argument to getgroups... ./configure: 42782: test: >> =: unexpected operator >> ``` >> This turns out to be because of missing

[PATCH] Add quotes in AS_IF test for gid_t

2024-02-06 Thread Sam James
Noticed when building Emacs: ``` * checking type of array argument to getgroups... ./configure: 42782: test: =: unexpected operator ``` This turns out to be because of missing quotes in AS_IF for ac_cv_type_gid_t in AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS. * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Use quotes in AS

Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-03-18 Thread Sam James
Jim Meyering writes: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 7:52 PM Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 3/17/23 19:08, Jim Meyering wrote: >> > Can someone see if there's some small/safe set of changes that are >> > essential? >> > If none (or few/easy), I might have time to make a snapshot soon. >> >> As far as I kn

Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-03-17 Thread Sam James
Sam James writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > > >> On 3 Feb 2023, at 07:43, Frederic Berat wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm also in favor of an RC release, I can then rebuild Fedora packages using >> the tarball from the tester list and do

Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-02-26 Thread Sam James
> On 3 Feb 2023, at 07:43, Frederic Berat wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm also in favor of an RC release, I can then rebuild Fedora packages using > the tarball from the tester list and do some kind of A/B testing. > Paul, would you be willing to try this? I don't think much work should be needed (f

Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-02-02 Thread Sam James
> On 2 Feb 2023, at 23:17, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > Due to a series of crises with my day job, the earliest I can promise to do > _anything_ Autoconf related is early March. If you have time to make a > release before then, please do not wait for me. > Sorry to hear Zack, hope you're doing

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2023-02-01 Thread Sam James
> On 20 Jan 2023, at 09:56, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 2022-12-30 14:12, Paul Eggert wrote: >> I'm attaching a proposed patch to Autoconf master documentation in two forms. > Zack, any further thoughts on that Autoconf patch? If not, I'm inclined to > install it as it doesn't change behavior, o

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-12-30 Thread Sam James
> On 30 Dec 2022, at 22:12, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 12/28/22 20:02, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> Please revert that part of your follow-up patch. > OK, I reverted all that patch, except for the further changes you requested, > plus some minor quoting and version-number fixes in comments. > >>

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-11-15 Thread Sam James
> On 13 Nov 2022, at 05:11, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, at 4:33 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, at 4:31 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: >>> Because of the concerns raised in this thread it's become clear that >>> what's in Autoconf now is too drastic, and I've propos

Re: [PATCH v2] specify void prototype for functions with no parameters

2022-09-19 Thread Sam James
> On 30 Aug 2022, at 22:53, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 8/29/22 21:35, Khem Raj wrote: >> Compilers defaulting to C99 flag such functions as warning which fails >> to compile when using -Werror > > As mentioned earlier, projects should not use -Werror when configuring, for > several reasons (th