Re: [PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Peter. On 01/23/2012 08:55 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-20 19:14: I mean, the automake testsuite makes (or at least should make) only two general assumptions about the compilers it uses: - they can build executables - if $(build_alias) == $(host_alias), they

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Merge 'experimental/compilers-for-testsuite' into master

2012-01-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/19/2012 02:55 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: I think this series is now polished enough to be merged from the branch 'experimental/compilers-for-testsuite' into master proper. Some improvements are still possible and advisable (for example, looking for gcc, g++ etc. at configure time

Re: [PATCH] tests: improve diagnostics when write(2) fails

2012-01-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/23/2012 09:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-09 20:32: BTW, this change might be independently useful in catching other potential unexpected write failures; would you feel like cooking it in a proper patch? Like this (for master)? [SNIP inlined patch] Yes,

[FYI] Merge branch 'maint' into branch-1.11

2012-01-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
commit 7db933d75df18dd265c22e2cb8bf4301eb99dfd7 Merge: 7f3a727 3a42288 Author: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com AuthorDate: Mon Jan 23 10:13:18 2012 +0100 Commit: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com CommitDate: Mon Jan 23 10:13:18 2012 +0100 Merge branch 'maint'

[PATCH] tests: improve diagnostics when write(2) fails (was: bug#10466: MSYS problem with redirects)

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-09 20:32: On 01/09/2012 12:29 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: With this diff: diff --git a/tests/parallel-tests-fd-redirect.test b/tests/parallel-tests-fd-red index 73a134e..5728014 100755 --- a/tests/parallel-tests-fd-redirect.test +++

Re: bug#10466: [PATCH] tests: improve diagnostics when write(2) fails

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-23 10:04: On 01/23/2012 09:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-09 20:32: BTW, this change might be independently useful in catching other potential unexpected write failures; would you feel like cooking it in a proper patch? Like this

[PATCH] {maint} refactor: new variable telling whether make is running in dry mode

2012-01-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
We define a new variable '$(am__make_dryrun)', that can be used in recipes to determine whether make is running in dry mode (as with make -n) or not. This is useful in rules that invoke make recursively, and are thus executed also with make -n -- either because they are declared as dependencies