Re: Confused section of 1.11 manual

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:59:47AM CEST: Section EXEEXT: Unfortunately, due to the change in Autoconf 2.50, this means you must always add this extension. However, this is a problem for maintainers who know their package will never run on a platform that

Re: [PATCH 1/4] {branch tests-init} Tests defs: $srcdir is unconditionally substituted.

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:14:18AM CEST: * tests/defs.in ($srcdir): Define unconditionally to @abs_src...@. Remove code $srcdir normalization, which is now useless. --- a/tests/defs.in +++ b/tests/defs.in @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ # Tom Tromey

Re: [PATCH 2/4] {branch tests-init} Tests defs: new variable $top_srcdir.

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:24:12AM CEST: * tests/defs.in ($top_srcdir): Define unconditionally to @abs_top_src...@. Use it throughout. * tests/ar-lib.test: Use `$top_srcdir' instead of `$testsrcdir/..'. * tests/auxdir.test: Likewise. * tests/compile.test: Likewise.

Re: [PATCH 2/4] {branch tests-init} Tests defs: new variable $top_srcdir.

2010-09-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 05 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:24:12AM CEST: * tests/defs.in ($top_srcdir): Define unconditionally to @abs_top_src...@. Use it throughout. * tests/ar-lib.test: Use `$top_srcdir' instead of `$testsrcdir/..'. *

Re: [PATCH 1/4] {branch tests-init} Tests defs: $srcdir is unconditionally substituted.

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 01:05:25AM CEST: On Sunday 05 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:14:18AM CEST: -srcdir=${srcdir-'@abs_srcdir@'} +srcdir='@abs_srcdir@' Can you explain why this is not needed

Re: User extensions

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Valentin, * Valentin David wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 06:56:53PM CEST: I am waiting for your comments. well, I very much like the ideas in your mail. I didn't look at the patch yet, because you don't yet have copyright papers in place. Details off-list. Thanks, Ralf

Re: absolute build directory with spaces

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:28:58PM CEST: Stefano Lattarini wrote: What about instead making the names of the temporaries source/build/install directories used by make distcheck configurable? This will offer more flexibility, and won't introduce still another