Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-10 09:01 skrev Peter Rosin: BTW, why is ! better than ^ here? Just curious. I found the answer myself. Quoting the portable shell chapter in the autoconf manual: | 11.5 Shell Pattern Matching | | Nowadays portable patterns can use negated character classes | like ‘[!-aeiou]’. The

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/10/2010 01:01 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: Further I'm fixing the archive and the compile script to use ! not ^ for shell pattern negation, and using $me also in the --help output. I tested with $me in the --help output but didn't get it to work so I removed it. But your version works.

Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and extend tests `pr*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
A quick update. I added to each pr[0-9]*.test the description of the correspoding bug report, and also split the previous patch so that the changes to tests for PR and the changes tests for unrelated tests pr[!0-9]*.test are now done by two separated commits. The updated patches are attached.

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:01:29AM CEST: 'wrappar' did cross my mind, but that just looks like a funny accent :-) Yes, that one is funny indeed, and another almost-palindrome. Den 2010-08-09 21:39 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: Further I'm fixing the archive and the compile script

Re: [PATCH] Minor improvements for tests `acloca*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:28:44AM CEST: Being forced to rescan this patch some time after having written it, I must admit that the noise-to-improvement ratio is way too high. So OK, let's drop most of this patch. However, I'd like to retain a couple of changes more