Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Miles Bader
Eric Blake writes: > I think it's worth pursuing a patch to the GNU Coding Standards that > allows a standardized configure option that allows one to specify an > alternate package name, so that things like $(pkglibdir) become > $(libdir)/$(alternate_package_name) A standardized option (described

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/27/2012 12:52 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC] > > Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in. > > On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> >> I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB, I can confirm this, based on my testi

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC] Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in. On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > > I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB, > I repeat *think* here, I don't know the details off the top of my head, Cygwin > isn't affected s

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/27/2012 02:37 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > Stefano Lattarini writes: >> Any transformation of a $(pkg*dir) by $(program_transform_name) >> would be a bug; if you encounter such an issue, I'd be grateful if >> you report it. >> >> But I'm pretty sure the inconsistency you are seeing here is due t

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-02-22 21:54: > On 02/22/2012 09:22 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> I don't understand how that patch could actually work ... If there are >>> too many tests in $(TESTS), there will be too many logs in $(TEST_LOGS), >

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Lattarini writes: > Any transformation of a $(pkg*dir) by $(program_transform_name) > would be a bug; if you encounter such an issue, I'd be grateful if > you report it. > > But I'm pretty sure the inconsistency you are seeing here is due to > another reasons (maybe some Makefile.am or con

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/26/2012 09:18 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello, all. In GRUB2 we have following problem: If > > program_transform_name=s,grub,grub2 > > then > pkglibdir=$libdir/grub2 > Hmm... no, this is not automake's doing (automake is in fact not documented to do so, and I've ju