[PATCH] {maint} Improve and extend tests `man*.test'.

2010-11-08 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Pinging this patch again, following this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg3.html Since I was at it, I rebased the patch, and squashed in some additional improvements. The updated patch is attached; here is what I squashed in (after the rebase):

Re: [PATCH] Minor improvements and extensions to various tests.

2010-11-08 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Pinging this patch again, following this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg3.html There should be no need to rebase the patch (which is based off of maint), so that I should just be able to merge it into master from the copy in my local automake repository.

Re: [Automake-commit] [SCM] GNU Automake branch, master, updated. v1.11-414-g3dffb01

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ moving from automake-commit ] Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:37:15PM CET: This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing the project GNU Automake. [...]

Re: [Automake-commit] [SCM] GNU Automake branch, master, updated. v1.11-414-g3dffb01

2010-11-08 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Monday 08 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ moving from automake-commit ] Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:37:15PM CET: This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was generated because a ref change was pushed to the

execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
Hi, I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions and proposed solutions related to this problem: - Split up file lists so several rules are generated: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-11/msg00106.html - What is your env's size?

Re: Copy files in VPATH build

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Steffen Dettmer steffen.dett...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jason Curl jcurln...@arcor.de wrote: * On Oct 30, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Jason Curljcurln...@arcor.de  wrote: When building my package with ./configure everything works well as

How to structure a GNU scientific project

2010-11-08 Thread Luke
I'm trying to organize the directory and file structure of my project and figure out how everything should be installed in a way that complies with the GCS and FHS.  Currently, my project provides several command line binary executables that do some numerical number crunching using GNU GSL.  The

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Pippijn, * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:55:45PM CET: I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions and proposed solutions related to this problem: - Split up file lists so several rules are generated:

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:55:45PM CET: I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions and proposed solutions related to this problem: - Split up file lists so

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 21:01 +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. The libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really large) for maximum argument list length, bash also agreed (it easily executed the distdir

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:56:52PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [1] On some systems this is not true; e.g., GNU make evades the limit on MSYS for this particular point, IIRC using a response file. Can automake do something similar? The dist files are always the same (well, they should be), so

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:01:12PM CET: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Also, we wrote a short section in the manual about this (in recent versions): info Automake Length Limitations I hadn't seen that, before. Now I read

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:03:59PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 21:01 +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. The libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really large) for maximum argument

bug#7333: [PATCH] {maint} Fix a bug in variable concatanation with `+='.

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
merge 7333 7345 tags 7333 + patch close 7333 v1.11-222-g7a020d6 thanks * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 03:26:52PM CET: Now, should I also try to close the bug #7333 on debbugs? The instruction at http://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer.html seems quite clear about how to do so, so I