[PATCH] aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable

2010-11-03 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Hi all, this patch provides a fourth scheme of adding directories to the search path. It is a simple colon-separated list of directories (without globbing). It is useful when you're using a global installation of Automake but you want to add directories from your account as well to the search

Re: tests updates

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Monday 01 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Stefano, Hi Ralf, and thanks for bringing this up again. I'm so totally behind on patches and not getting better, that the strategy of ignoring testsuite work will not help either. So how about the following. IIRC you suggested a branch

Re: [PATCH v2] Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Friday 24 September 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Now that I've run all those tests (whose results are posted in this thread), ok to push to master? Pinging the patch again, following this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg3.html Note that this patch is

Re: [PATCH] aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Hi all, this patch provides a fourth scheme of adding directories to the search path. It is a simple colon-separated list of directories (without globbing). It is useful when you're using a global installation of Automake but you want to

Re: [PATCH] aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable

2010-11-03 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 11/03/2010 04:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: + # Add any directory listed in the `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment + # variable. + if (defined $ENV{ACLOCAL_PATH}) +{ + foreach my $dir (split /:/, $ENV{ACLOCAL_PATH}) Shouldn't we use `...@path_separator@' here instead of `:', for better

Re: [PATCH] aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 11/03/2010 04:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: + # Add any directory listed in the `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment + # variable. + if (defined $ENV{ACLOCAL_PATH}) +{ + foreach my $dir (split /:/, $ENV{ACLOCAL_PATH})

Re: More problems with `make -n' in automake-generated rules.

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Ralf. Thanks for these fixes, I really think that make -n should really be dry-run if possible. On Monday 01 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I noticed more issues with automake-generated rules and `make -n': 1) The solutions documented in the `Multiple Outputs' node are not safe

Re: More problems with `make -n' in automake-generated rules.

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Ralf. Again, just a couple of nits w.r.t. the test cases... On Monday 01 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:18:55PM CET: 3) The rules to update Makefile, but also those to update and Makefile.in, are broken in some circumstances,

Re: [PATCH] New tests on obsoleted usages of automake/autoconf macros.

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Pinging this patch again, following this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg3.html I've also re-based the patch off of latest maint, extended some checks a little bit, fixed a typo in comments, and fixed some very minor and theoretic portability problems (use of

Re: tests updates

2010-11-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 02:27:47PM CET: On Monday 01 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'm so totally behind on patches and not getting better, that the strategy of ignoring testsuite work will not help either. So how about the following. IIRC you suggested a

Re: [PATCH v2] Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.

2010-11-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 03:10:30PM CET: On Friday 24 September 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Now that I've run all those tests (whose results are posted in this thread), ok to push to master? Pinging the patch again, following this:

Re: [PATCH v2] Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.

2010-11-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 03:10:30PM CET: On Friday 24 September 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Now that I've run all those tests (whose results are posted in this thread), ok to push to master?