[PATCH] {maint} test defs: more granular overriding of the make program

Will push this shortly if there is no objection. -*-*-*- Before this change, the only way the user could override the make program used in the automake test cases was to override the $MAKE variable in the environment. This had the annoying side effect of requiring that, whenever a non-default ma

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: add support for lzip compression

On 12/30/2011 04:40 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> OK, I've applied the patch with a couple of very minor tweaks. Attached is >> what I'll push in your name once I've leant what is the kosher/blessed way >> to mark a git commit with a "no paperwork required" attribute.

Re: bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

Hi Eric. On 12/30/2011 03:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [SNIP] > > So we _do_ need to make the swap. > Thanks for your explanation and testing. Here is the patch I'll push shortly if there is no objection. Regards, Stefano -*-*-*- >From 34feafeec134a7bdc99d1b261fd97e6c0c5ab716 Mon Sep 17 00:00

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: obsolote support for lzma (superseded by xz)

On 12/30/2011 06:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > s/obsolote/obsolete in the subject > > On 12/30/2011 09:54 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> I will push this in a couple of days or so, barring any objection. >> >> >> Also, the `dist-lzma' target still suffers of never-solved bugs, >> due to the too-high

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: obsolote support for lzma (superseded by xz)

s/obsolote/obsolete in the subject On 12/30/2011 09:54 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > I will push this in a couple of days or so, barring any objection. > > > Also, the `dist-lzma' target still suffers of never-solved bugs, > due to the too-high compression ratio its uses by default, which > mig

[PATCH] {maint} dist: obsolote support for lzma (superseded by xz)

I will push this in a couple of days or so, barring any objection. Regards, Stefano -*-*- The lzma utilities are today superseded by the xz utilities; in fact, the official site at reads: ``LZMA Utils are legacy data compression software with high compression

Re: bug#7868: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

Hi Bob. On 12/30/2011 05:10 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >> OK, I hope I've finally managed to partially fix this incredibly annoying bug >> -- I say "partially" because the fix is sadly *for GNU make*. Even more >> sadly, >> the solution is pret

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: OK, I hope I've finally managed to partially fix this incredibly annoying bug -- I say "partially" because the fix is sadly *for GNU make*. Even more sadly, the solution is pretty hacky and somewhat brittle. Still, it should cause no regression w

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: add support for lzip compression

Stefano Lattarini wrote: OK, I've applied the patch with a couple of very minor tweaks. Attached is what I'll push in your name once I've leant what is the kosher/blessed way to mark a git commit with a "no paperwork required" attribute. Thanks. About the "no paperwork required", I am in fact

Re: bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

On 12/30/2011 07:07 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> I'm not sure if putting the @anchor after the @node make a difference. >> If the anchor takes the old name to the previous node, then we may want >> to move the anchor to appear after the @node. >> > It's a pity that, with the current infrastruct

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: add support for lzip compression

On 12/30/2011 03:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/30/2011 06:47 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> >> OK, I've applied the patch with a couple of very minor tweaks. Attached is >> what I'll push in your name once I've leant what is the kosher/blessed way >> to mark a git commit with a "no paperwork r

Re: bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

On 12/30/2011 02:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/28/2011 12:33 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> - >> -@node Invoking Automake >> +@c The anchor is required to avoid breaking existing web hyperlinks >> +@c still using the old name of this node. >> +@anchor{Invoking automake} >> +@node automake Invoc

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: add support for lzip compression

On 12/30/2011 06:47 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > OK, I've applied the patch with a couple of very minor tweaks. Attached is > what I'll push in your name once I've leant what is the kosher/blessed way > to mark a git commit with a "no paperwork required" attribute. Alas, right now the "solut

Re: bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

On 12/28/2011 12:33 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> > This can be fixed by using an @anchor{} to the old name at the same >> > location as you switch to the new consistent node name. The tools will >> > then keep the old link live by virtue of the anchor, without having to >> > mess with .symlinks

[PATCH] {maint} dist: add support for lzip compression (was: Re: Automake 1.11.2 released)

(dropping automake list, keeping automake-patches only). On 12/28/2011 01:41 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> Thanks. I have some nits below; I can address them myself, but >> I'd really appreciate if you could take care of them instead. > > OK. Lets see what I can d

Re: bug#10237: bug#9928: AM_SILENT_RULES does not work with NonStop make

On 12/28/2011 09:19 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > I did some testing on Debian unstable, Solaris 10, NetBSD 5.1 and Cygwin 1.5 > (in > part by running the relevant test cases from the automake testsuite, in part > trying out the build system of GNU coreutils). Everything seems fine so far. >

Re: bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

On 12/28/2011 08:33 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 12/28/2011 01:50 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 12/26/2011 12:34 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: While on this subject; all the other autotools entitle their invocation nodes "autofoo Invocation", whereas automake calls its "Invoking Au

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

On 12/29/2011 12:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 12/28/2011 08:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> Sorry for top-posting. I don't want to lose any text of the original mail. >> >> I totally forgot that I had applied Ralf's patch to my 1.11.1 install. Now >> that I have updated GraphicsMagick to