automake warning useless use of /d modifier in transliteration in Wrap.pm

2010-08-18 Thread Jay K
warning, not error, seems to work ok bash-4.1$ autoreconf Useless use of /d modifier in transliteration operator at /home/jayk/share/automake-1.11/Automake/Wrap.pm line 58. bash-4.1$ automake --version Useless use of /d modifier in transliteration operator at

Re: automake warning useless use of /d modifier in transliteration in Wrap.pm

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Jay. Thanks for the report. The problem you encountered has already been fixed in the Automake's git repository; JFTR, the relevant commit should be `375912c466b28a6121d351b9ff5513133a1c7227':

[PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of tests, introduced my recent patch Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'. OK to push to maint ASAP? Regards, Stefano From 260e5422067b12b966f00038c1db76b1d562b405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini

Re: More problems when overriding autotools in bootstrap

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Forget it. While the patch I'm proposing here is IMO still valuable, it does nothing for the failures in missing.test and missing2.test; in fact, these failure are due to the fact that I used an absolute paths for autoconf and autom4te when configuring. At this point, I think that fixing

Closing the thread

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
After all, it turned out that the issue dealt with in this thread has its good share of subtleties. Now I think it's better to rewrite this patch as a patch series. So, please just ignore this thread from now on; I'll start a new one when the new patch series will be ready. Thanks, Stefano

Re: [PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:50:50PM CEST: The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of tests, introduced my recent patch Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'. OK to push to maint ASAP? Ideally, you'd commit this to a

Re: [PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:50:50PM CEST: The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of tests, introduced my recent patch Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'. OK

[PATCHES] Two small improvements to HACKING

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Stefano Lattarini (2): HACKING: improve description of git bugfix branches. HACKING: acknowledge Perl 4 as utterly obsolete. HACKING | 10 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -*-*- OK for maint? Regards, Stefano From 9b1532f7d4ffea02157899c33b87289c277f454b Mon

Re: [PATCHES] Two small improvements to HACKING

2010-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:09:15AM CEST: HACKING: improve description of git bugfix branches. HACKING: acknowledge Perl 4 as utterly obsolete. Nits below. Subject: [PATCH 1/2] HACKING: improve description of git bugfix branches. * HACKING (Working with git):

Re: Testing a new compiler with Automake simple tests

2010-08-18 Thread Roberto Bagnara
On 08/17/2010 08:47 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:26:13PM CEST: At Tuesday 17 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote: On 08/17/10 13:26, Stefano Lattarini wrote: $(TESTS): your-special-purpose-compiler That dependency cases relinking

Re: Testing a new compiler with Automake simple tests

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote: Dear Stefano and Ralf, thank you very much for your assistance. I am a bit confused; here is what I have in my Makefile.am # This does not work: Automake 1.11 rejects it with # Makefile.am:1148: bad characters in variable name

Re: Testing a new compiler with Automake simple tests

2010-08-18 Thread Roberto Bagnara
On 08/18/10 13:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote: At Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote: # This does not work: when ../../bin/compiler changes, tests are # not recompiled. # TESTS_OBJS = $(TESTS:=...@objext@) Typo here (and in Ralf example): should be $(TESTS:=...@objext@), with a dot

Re: Testing a new compiler with Automake simple tests

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote: On 08/18/10 13:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote: At Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote: # This does not work: when ../../bin/compiler changes, tests are # not recompiled. # TESTS_OBJS = $(TESTS:=...@objext@) Typo here (and

Re: call for help/crazy idea: nmake support

2010-08-18 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi! This is an interesting discussion. I think a key question is whether the style of working with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) is compatible with `orthogonal component based environments'. I tend to think that both are, more or less, each others opposite. In first case, I have a

Re: Testing a new compiler with Automake simple tests

2010-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:42:01PM CEST: On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote: On 08/18/10 13:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote: At Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote: #$(TESTS:=...@objext@): ../../bin/compiler The above is rejected