Re: [PATCH 1/6] Test that aclocal(s) used by the testsuite and by autoconf match.

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, you don't make it easy to catch up with you! :-O * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:54:52PM CEST: * tests/remake0.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. OK with ... --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/remake0.test @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +# Make sure the

Re: [PATCH 4/6] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:05:20PM CEST: --- a/m4/init.m4 +++ b/m4/init.m4 @@ -70,10 +70,22 @@ _AM_IF_OPTION([no-define],, # Some tools Automake needs. AC_REQUIRE([AM_SANITY_CHECK])dnl AC_REQUIRE([AC_ARG_PROGRAM])dnl +dnl We pass the the $AUTOCONF and $AUTOM4TE

Re: [PATCHES] Docs on automatic dependency tracking

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:14:03PM CEST: Applied to maint, merged in master and branch-1.11, and pushed. FWIW, somehow you managed to apply these two patches separately to each of these branches, instead of merging them all from maint. I'm fixing the merges with the

Re: [PATCH 2/6] Testsuite: fix missing*.test for non-default autotools.

2010-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:57:04PM CEST: * tests/missing.test: Build and use our own `autoconf' script, to avoid spurious failures due to configure-time value of $AUTOCONF being an absolute path.

Re: [PATCH 2/6] Testsuite: fix missing*.test for non-default autotools.

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:00:46PM CEST: On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: What is the actual problem by the way? Basically, `missing --run /abs/path/to/autoconf' does not recognize the program being run as an autoconf: Why not adjust `missing'

Re: [PATCH 2/6] Testsuite: fix missing*.test for non-default autotools.

2010-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:00:46PM CEST: On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: What is the actual problem by the way? Basically, `missing --run /abs/path/to/autoconf' does not recognize the

Re: [PATCH 4/6] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.

2010-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:05:20PM CEST: --- a/m4/init.m4 +++ b/m4/init.m4 @@ -70,10 +70,22 @@ _AM_IF_OPTION([no-define],, # Some tools Automake needs. AC_REQUIRE([AM_SANITY_CHECK])dnl

Re: [PATCHES] Docs on automatic dependency tracking

2010-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:14:03PM CEST: Applied to maint, merged in master and branch-1.11, and pushed. FWIW, somehow you managed to apply these two patches separately to each of these branches, instead of merging

wikipedia

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Apologies for the slightly off-topic message, but the German wikipedia entry for autotools contains a number of inaccuracies and bias against it. I consider myself biased so I won't edit it, but would be delighted to see someone setting things straight, trying to avoid bias. If you have

Re: make clean is slow

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
So long ago already ... * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:26:14PM CEST: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Is there a way to make this quite a lot faster? The LTLIBRARIES bits: yes, noted. The PROGRAMS bits should be reasonably fast already, only forking a

Re: make clean is slow

2010-08-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: So long ago already ... Slow but sure ... For some of the OSs the time is about the same if the directory is already cleaned, while for others (e.g. OS-X) the time improves considerably if the directory is already clean. Here's a first patch I'm

Re: wikipedia

2010-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Apologies for the slightly off-topic message, but the German wikipedia entry for autotools contains a number of inaccuracies and bias against it. FWIW, this is true also for the English wikipedia entry for autoconf (but *not* for the automake

On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-21 Thread Roberto Bagnara
I am using Automake's simple test driver. I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation, keep allocating stack space until they segfault: $ ulimit -s 8192 $ ./bug23 Segmentation fault $ ./bug24 Segmentation fault $ ./bug31 Segmentation fault However: $ make check ...

Re: On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST: I am using Automake's simple test driver. Are you using parallel-tests or not? Any setting for the variables TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, LOG_COMPILER? I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation,