Re: [PATCH] silent-many-generic: be stricter in silent rules pattern

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Dave, thanks for the patch. It turns out we have already in place a workaround for a situation similar to the one you're facing (that situation being the Sun C++ compiler being named 'CC'). So the best fix IMO is to extend this workaround to deal also with you case. The attached patch should

Re: bug#10898: test-suite output of automake-1.11.3 - it requested I send it to you!

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Lou. Please keep the mailing list in loop when you answer. Thanks. I'm re-sending your answer to the list, so that it gets seen by the other subscribers and registered in the bug tracker. On 02/28/2012 03:05 PM, Lou Picciano wrote: Stefano, Tks for your notes - I'm encouraged to think

Re: bug#10898: test-suite output of automake-1.11.3 - it requested I send it to you!

2012-02-28 Thread Eric Blake
[adding autoconf] On 02/28/2012 09:42 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Ah, likely the famous ksh bug with $@ and empty arguments: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2009-12/msg00037.html See automake bug#10898. At least the ATT and OpenSolaris versions of the Korn

Re: bug#10898: test-suite output of automake-1.11.3 - it requested I send it to you!

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/28/2012 05:51 PM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding autoconf] On 02/28/2012 09:42 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Ah, likely the famous ksh bug with $@ and empty arguments: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2009-12/msg00037.html See automake bug#10898. At least

[PATCH] tests: fix spurious failure when dependency tracking is unavailable (was: Re: bug#8880: [PATCH] add pgcc support to depcomp)

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/27/2012 11:01 PM, Dave Goodell wrote: yacc-dist-nobuild.dir fails without this depcomp patch, but it passes with it. I didn't fully grok this test, but it looks like the test requires dependency support from the compiler+depcomp to operate correctly. Not really, that was a redundant

Re: [PATCH] silent-many-generic: be stricter in silent rules pattern

2012-02-28 Thread Dave Goodell
Your patch does not work for me. Attached is a fixed version of your patch that matches the offending $CXX value correctly, handles spaces in compiler wrapper arguments, and fixes a typo. If you have a better alternative to the conservative case statement that I used, please use it. Between