Re: transform2.test failure on Cygwin: replacing an executable with a script

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-13 19:32 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:55:54PM CEST: Den 2010-08-07 17:56 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: install bla.exe .../inst/bin/foo.exe install script.sh .../inst/bin/foo and the second one fails (to overwrite the foo.exe). Does anybody

Re: translation of command line arguments

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-13 20:02 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:38:43AM CEST: *snip* On the other hand, this means that better support for cl means adjusting a number of macros from Autoconf, Gnulib, and maybe Automake as well. For example, what about dependency

Re: [PATCH] Support more C++ extensions for MSVC in the compile script.

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-13 19:08 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: Hi Peter, * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:37:59PM CEST: This is one of the last bits of functionality from the (dwindling) pr-msvc-support branch in Libtool (the remaining bit is triggering the ar-lib script with a new macro and

[PATCH] Optimize compile script on MSYS.

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! As suggested by Ralf, there is room for improvement in the compile script. There is no need to convert filenames when MSYS is going to do it anyway, especially when the conversion costs a bunch of forks. I have tested this patch with this: cat filenames 'EOF' #! /bin/sh foo=0 while test

More problems when overriding autotools in bootstrap

2010-08-16 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. Even with this patch of mine applied: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-08/msg00151.html there are still problems when using non-default autoconf and autom4te to build and test automake. For example, the tests `missing.test' and `missing2.test' fail (see

Re: [PATCH] Optimize compile script on MSYS.

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, [ output reordered to print new vs old ] * Peter Rosin wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:59:13PM CEST: time for file in `./filenames 20 / .cc`; do ./compile cl $file; done real0m9.781s real0m9.875s time for file in `./filenames 20 / .cpp`; do ./compile cl $file; done real

Re: [PATCH] Don't hide the table of contents

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:40:36PM CEST: Don't hide the table of contents. * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning. Good one! Thanks, also for the explanations. Since the patch doesn't cause HTML node names to change nor

Re: [PATCH] Optimize compile script on MSYS.

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-16 20:30 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: Hi Peter, [ output reordered to print new vs old ] * Peter Rosin wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:59:13PM CEST: time for file in `./filenames 20 / .cc`; do ./compile cl $file; done real0m9.781s real0m9.875s time for file in