Re: Typo in manual

2008-05-13 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:08:24PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > "almost staled" -> "almost stalled" Thanks. I added my small collection of typos. Attached below. Could someone please commit? thanks. Stepan Kasal >From d02669b611ac91885ebf8ec0c947

Re: Autoconf's copy of ChannelDefs.pm

2008-03-17 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 02:24:34PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:20:53PM CET: > > several of the lib/Automake/*.pm files are used by Autoconf as > > lib/Autom4te/*.pm. Why isn't ChannelDefs.pm among them. ... > Hm

Autoconf's copy of ChannelDefs.pm

2008-03-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
s new category of warnings, even though it does not use it currently? Attached please find a patch which would sync the two clones. Are you willing to apply? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2008-03-14 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Import c

Typo fixes

2008-01-03 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, attached please find my small collection of typo fixes. Stepan 2008-01-03 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (handle_texinfo_helper, handle_lib_objects): Fix typos in comments. diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in index 3720769..15b4b77 100755

LTLIBRARIES omitted in doc

2007-05-03 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, I noticed that `LTLIBRARIES' is missing in the list of the primaries in node Uniform. Please apply the attached patch. Stepan 2007-05-03 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Add `LTLIBRARIES' to the list of primaries. Index: d

Fix typos, but think twice

2007-05-02 Thread Stepan Kasal
a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2007-05-02 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (am_primary_prefixes): Keep the intentional typo there. Index: automake.in === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/automake.in,v ret

Re: rewrite of m4/depout.m4

2007-04-26 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:02:13PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > The motivation to do this was to work towards allowing non-static > content in *_SOURCES variables, so that it works even with > subdir-objects. IOW, one stepping stone to eventually allow > bin_PROGRAMS = foo > mydir =

Re: generated files in CVS

2007-04-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:36:22PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Is there any reason that doc/{stamp-vti,version.texi} are stored in CVS? a quick check: Autoconf does not have these files in the CVS. So it seems safe to leave them out. Stepan

Re: mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

2007-03-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello again, On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:12:11PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > On 29 March 2007 15:38, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 29 March 2007 00:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>

Re: mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

2007-03-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
s -lLd doc/m4.texinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 eblake Domain Users 221922 Mar 1 14:50 doc/m4.texinfo it might be possible that even the user or group owner of / would have a blank it its name. (With Cygwin, one never knows.) So it is safer to use -n with ls /, too. Just guessing, I'm not a Cygwin user. Stepan Kasal

ac_aux_dir not set

2007-01-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
OMAKE should be the first AM_* macro; is it really there? In any case, I suppose the attached patch should not hurt. Thanks, Stepan Kasal 2007-01-10 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/auxdir.m4 (AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND): Require AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT. Index: m

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-12-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:39:47AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * tests/tools.at (autom4te preselections): Use `find -newer'; > > remove one of the sleeps. > > Thanks; please install. Installed to Autoconf CVS, thank you. Stepan

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-12-06 Thread Stepan Kasal
in this thread I proposed using `find -newer'. No protability problem are known, and it allows us to avoid one of the sleeps. What about the following patch? Stepan Kasal 2006-12-06 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * tests/tools.at (autom4te preselections): Use `find -new

Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

2006-12-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf and all, [sorry for the delay, I forgot this in my "postponed" folder] On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:35:54PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:18PM CET: > > [...] So it seems that distcheck would > > catch more bu

Re: install-sh -C

2006-10-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:35:31PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > find stampfile -newer $file indeed, according to the documentation, the predicate is true if stampfile is strictly newer than $file. So the implementation would have to be something like: # is_younger FILE FILES # --

Re: fix coreutils' "make distcheck": remove AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR(lib)

2006-10-17 Thread Stepan Kasal
tests/pr401b.test: Likewise. > > RW> * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise. > > RW> Report by Jim Meyering and Eric Blake. I think that the patch has broken the error message in the procedure. Attached is a proposed patch. Stepan 2006-10-17 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Dependency tracking of pre processed Assembler files

2006-10-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, you wrote: > > > Further note a small buglet in m4/as.m4: > > > - without no-dependencies, we should not compute depmode. you mean that _with_ no-dependencies, we shouldn't compute depmode, right? Stepan

Re: install-sh misbehaves badly on buggy FreeBSD systems

2006-10-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
a binary operator, so -z is safe here. Moreover, I removed the `X' from the last test call, because it is more readable this way and we know that the ls_ld_tmpdir* variables start with `d'. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2006-10-09 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-09-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:22:31PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:26:34PM CEST: > [sleep before the first aclocal call] thank you that you kindly repeated the explanation for me. I apologize that I was not able to see it i

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-09-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:50:48PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > +test -f $HOME/.autom4te.cfg && exit 77 > > [...], but better be safer than sorry: this test does > not need to be executed on many systems in order to be effective. you are right, of course; thanks for explanatio

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-09-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:16:06AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [...], with Stepan's proposed additional patch > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-09/msg00023.html > I can't get the test to fail reliably any more: it only fails about half > the time, even if I throw

Re: automake/500: unnecessary -I options in DEFAULT_INCLUDES (make clutter)

2006-08-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:55:49AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: >gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I. -I. -c base64.c > > to this: > >gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -c base64.c > > I'd also like to remove those unnecessary and distracting spaces, but > that's for a later patch. how do you plan

Re: automake/500: unnecessary -I options in DEFAULT_INCLUDES (make clutter)

2006-08-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
hink this is worth it. After all, there is nothing wrong with `-I. -I.' in non-VPATH builds. Stepan Kasal

Re: Proposal: dirlist.d/ directory support

2006-08-28 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:35:08AM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 02:35:26AM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > this example is very illustrative. I think the dirlist.d/package > > files would contain one absolute patch each. And that can be > >

Re: Proposal: dirlist.d/ directory support

2006-08-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:04:48PM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote: > Exactly. Let's take GNOME in /opt/gnome/ as an example. If you have that you > might want to have GNOME m4 files in /opt/gnome/share/aclocal/ but you may > want to make some GNOME package also provide > /usr/share/aclocal/d

Typo fixes

2006-08-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, attached please find my collection of typo fixes. Stepan 2006-08-20 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile.am, THANKS: Fix typos. Index: ChangeLog === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/ChangeLog,v retr

Re: Creating subdirs of distdir

2006-08-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:54:23PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > I'm installing this as follows, removing another reference to > DISTDIRS in dist.am, fixing distdir.test so it passes, and > fixing the (c) year of pr2.test, thank you very much for the fixes. (I wonder why I thought

Re: Creating subdirs of distdir

2006-07-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, a month ago I submitted this patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-06/msg0.html Any opinions? Stepan Kasal 2006-06-02 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (dist_dirs, fill_dist_dirs): Remove. * lib/am/distdir.am (DI

Use AC_PROG_MKDIR_P

2006-06-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I believe AM_PROG_MKDIR_P can now be replaced by a thin wrapper aroulnd AC_PROG_MKDIR_P. Is the following patch OK? Have a nice day, Stepan 2006-06-02 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/mkdirp.m4 (AM_PROG_MKDIR_P): Use AC_PROG_MKDIR_P. Index: m4/mkd

Re: Creating subdirs of distdir

2006-06-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, FWIIW, I like this version of the patch: On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:48:34PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > 2006-05-24 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/am/distdir.am: Do not call $(mkdir_p) for

Re: Creating subdirs of distdir

2006-05-23 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, thank you for your review and improvements. A few quick comments: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:31:18PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [...] nobody uses `|' in a file name. I think it's pretty safe > to assume this. [...] Sure it is. The current code already assumed that: case .

Re: Creating subdirs of distdir

2006-05-23 Thread Stepan Kasal
`echo "$$file" | sed -e 's,/[^/]*$$,,'` $(mkdir_p) ... for each distributed file which is not a directory, eliminating 4 processes for each of them. The new code is only five processes, so the gain is obvious. The patch passes the testsuite. Have a nice day,

config.rpath missing

2006-05-23 Thread Stepan Kasal
/lib, all three test passed. I suggest to add config.rpath to the files distributed by Automake, see the attached patch. (After applying, please run "make fetch" and cvs add lib/config.rpath, and then commit.) As a bonus, I attached two typos. ;-) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 200

Creating subdirs of distdir

2006-05-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
s slightly more effective, but I don't think it's worth the amount of code which is needed, and which would be needed to fix this for conditionals. What do you think? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2006-05-14 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/am/distdir.am:

Re: fix overrid.test

2006-04-26 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:30:46AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > fail because of `ps' in ``pwd`'. I misunderstood this: I thought that a file named `ps' is in the current dir, while you meant that `ps' is a substring the full pathname of the current dir. Having that mis-interpreatio

Re: fix overrid.test

2006-04-26 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf, On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > The failure I stumbled over was the `grep ps stderr' that didn't > fail because of `ps' in ``pwd`'. how could that happen? Do you mean that grep behaved as grep '' ps stderr? Or did the string "ps" got to stderr some

A tiny improvement of the dirname emulation

2006-04-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, Autoconf has recently added a tiny optimization to the expr implementation of dirname. I think that the copy in lib/install-sh could be synchronised. Patch attached. Have a nice day, Stepan 2006-04-25 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/install-sh: Simpli

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-21 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I proposed: > > > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated > > > ./configure. [plus] > > $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(top_srcdir)/configure On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:51:26PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Also, you are munging time stamps behind

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure. > Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.) > > I don't think it works : > > - if automake is called by a rebuild rule

Re: mkdir -p -- minor cleanup

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Paul. On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:18:04PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And $(mkdir_p) cannot be used with an option anyway. > > But under the patch I proposed, "$(mkdir_p) -m 444" would be allowed, > for example.

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:12:01AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > adl> Here is my attempt at checking Autoconf version in aclocal.m4. ... > Here is a second attempt [...] ... >* It does not pollute acloc

Re: mkdir -p -- minor cleanup

2006-04-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
ing variation of your patch. (The install-sh part remains unchanged.) Have a nice day, Stepan 2006-04-19 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/install.sh: Handle --, and diagnose unknown options. * m4/mkdirp.m

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
that "autoconf" has some code to handle > "-" as input, but I fail to see how that can work if autom4te cannot > read stdin!) That code predates the above change. Perhaps we should add it to the testsuite. ;-) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal * lib/Au

Fix typos

2006-04-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
icate message from the code. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2006-04-14 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (find_file): Fix a typo in the description; eliminate the duplicate error message. * doc/automake.texi (@direntry): `Invoking A

Re: another typo

2006-04-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:16:15PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > I have noticed the following typo. I've found two more. Sorry, I should have buffered them. Stepan 2006-04-10 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_gen_varname):

another typo

2006-04-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I have noticed the following typo. Stepan diff -u -r1.304 NEWS --- NEWS21 Mar 2006 19:09:21 - 1.304 +++ NEWS9 Apr 2006 14:29:18 - @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used in different directories. - - $(EX

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2006-04-09 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:46:48AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Sorry for the delay. I'm checking this in. I'm responsible for the delay, of course. Thank you very much for resolving this. A typo crept in, though, see below. Thanks, Stepan --- ChangeLog 9 Apr 2006 07:

suggestion for bug #486

2006-03-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
text. So, after a long delay, I would like to use his approval. Will you accept the attached patch? Have a nice day, Stepan 2006-03-30 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (handle_texinfo_helper): Rephrase Akim's suggestion. In

Re: Typos and a trivial change

2006-03-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, thank you, Ralf, for checking this in. Stepan > 2006-03-21 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * automake.in (libtool_new_api): Fix a typo in the comment. > * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (Config.pm): Likewise. > * lib/am/depend2.am: Like

Re: OT: ChangeLog stylistics

2006-03-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:02:37PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:13:50PM CET: > > I though it's a problem of present vs. past tense, not active/passive voice. > > > > The changelog informs about what _was done_ so

Re: mkdir_p should not fall back to mkinstalldirs

2006-03-23 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, > SK> is there any reason why mkdir_p still sometimes falls back to > SK> mkinstalldirs? I think the code will be nicer if we'll use > SK> `install-sh -d' as a universal fallback. > > Yeah, the makefile used mkinstalldirs when it was present, and they > still do for backward compatibil

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2006-03-23 Thread Stepan Kasal
, AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE will not have any significant advantage anymore. Moreover, it'll be necessary to reimplement the feature in Autoconf. Consequently, I'd prefer if this feature is not added to the public interface. I apologize again that I wasn't able to communicate this earlier. Stepan Kasal

Re: OT: ChangeLog stylistics

2006-03-22 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, > I prefer to use the active voice (and present, not past) in ChangeLog > entries. actually, I prefer it, too. It's just that when someone told me to use the past tense, I found his reasons stronger than mine. But I continued to use the imperatives, anyway. > The same goes for comments

Fix mmodely.test on systems without lex

2006-03-21 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I ran the Automake testsuite on a system where flex was not installed and one test failed. The following patch fixes it. Have a nice day, Stepan 2006-03-21 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * tests/mmodely.test: Fix the test on systems with no lex. Index:

Typos and a trivial change

2006-03-21 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, I have collected 4 typos and one trivial change to a test. Patch attached. Stepan 2006-03-21 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (libtool_new_api): Fix a typo in the comment. * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (Config.pm): Likewise. * lib/am/depe

OT: ChangeLog stylistics

2006-03-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, > > RW> * tests/Makefile.am: Updated. > > > > "Update." :) > > There is considerable variation among ChangeLog entries in packages I > know with respect to the passive or active voice. [...] I though it's a problem of present vs. past tense, not actove/passive voice. The changelog info

Re: FYI: more doc about _PYTHON

2006-02-17 Thread Stepan Kasal
ce day, Stepan Kasal

Re: Incorrect directory creation with 'make dist' and EXTRA_DIST

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
data/foo.txt or EXTRA_DIST = $(top_builddir)/data/foo.txt It is a bit counter-intuitive: top_builddir always expands to a relative path, so the above mkdir works. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2006-01-04 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (handle_dist) : Repl

Re: depcomp: support newer HP compilers

2006-01-03 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:43:32PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: > [...] I had thought, though, that the proprietary Unix vendors froze > the utilities in /bin and /usr/bin in a pre-SuS state, [...] actually, I always thought that only Solaris has this problem. Yes, other proprieatar Unice

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-31 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:45:47AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > [...] What I want is just a way to say "dear Automake, > > please ignore this substitution when generating Makefile.ins"; > > i.e., I really want to talk to Automake, I have changed my mind again: I don't think th

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:45:47AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > [...] What I want is just a way to say "dear Automake, > please ignore this substitution when generating Makefile.ins"; > i.e., I really want to talk to Automake, OK, you have convinced me. Though I understand the ori

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > I believe what Stepan meant was: > If the status.m4 code encounters [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@\n@', where `FOO' has > been > AC_SUBSTed, then treat the replacement of the complete string > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@\n@' in a special way

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-19 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:53:55AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Stepan Kasal schrieb: > > FOO = @FOO@@\n@ > > There are a lot of cases, in fact, the majority, where the substituted > string is only known at configure time, when the Makefile.in files have > long been

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-18 Thread Stepan Kasal
previous versions of Automake.) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal Index: lib/autoconf/general.m4 === RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4,v retrieving revision 1.886 diff -u -r1.886 general.m4 --- lib/autoc

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-18 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:55:38PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > I have another solution for the problem of multiline substitutions first, let me sum up the problem: If you use AC_SUBST([FOO], ["foo bar"]) in your configure.ac, then Automake traces it, and puts FOO = @

Re: AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-18 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, just a very quick comment, sorry. On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:44:27PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Occasionally we want to disable automatic variable definitions > of AC_SUBSTitutions. I don't like the name, I think it should be AC_SUBST_*, not AM_*. I believe the macro should be d

Re: [PATCH] RFC: Added wildcard support to dirlist parsing

2005-10-17 Thread Stepan Kasal
(It passed "make check", FWIW.) Alexandre, will you accept it? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2005-10-17 Clifford Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (tiny change) Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * aclocal.in (parse_arguments): Added wildcard support to

Re: A few typos

2005-10-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, > SK> I noticed the following typos. > > Thanks. Installed. thank you very much for this. Attached please find a patch with another two typos, collected in the meantime. Have a nice day, Stepan 2005-10-04 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *

Re: windres compilation rule

2005-09-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:41:31PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > 2005-09-27 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Direct suffix rule preserves > the directory prefix, so the generated object name should cont

Re: windres compilation rule

2005-09-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
Does this work for you? > How do I get CVS Automake and Autoconf? It's not necessary any more, but just for your information: http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=autoconf http://sources.redhat.com/automake/ Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2005-09-27 Stepan Ka

A few typos

2005-09-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I noticed the following typos. Stepan Index: ChangeLog.03 === RCS file: /cvsroot/automake/automake/ChangeLog.03,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 ChangeLog.03 --- ChangeLog.0314 May 2005 20:28:50 - 1.2 +

Re: [patch] txinfo21.test failed

2005-09-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:01:37AM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > 2005-07-25 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/am/texinfos.am (uninstall-info-am): Call install-info only if > the $(infodir) exists. this patch has been installed, though it seems Al

Re: improved Automake test for file names with funny characters

2005-09-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:16:31PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does Stepan's patch for quoting $@ before eval look right to you? > > No, because echo mishandles some path names. [...] and what about this: d=`sed "s,',''',g;

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-09-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
iner, is active, he reads both lists regularly. It seems there is a long summer in France this year. Alexandre always provided a professional quality service; but AFAIK, it's a volunteer work. So we have to be patient when he wants to take a few weeks off. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal

Improve a comment for language cppasm

2005-08-15 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I noticed that a comment mentions AM_ASFLAGS instead of AM_CCASFLAGS. Moreover, the comment should mention AM_CPPFLAGS, too. Patch attached. Stepan 2005-08-15 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (Languages) : Fix typo in the comment. Index: autom

Re: AM_PROG_MKDIR_P overcautious?

2005-08-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I understand why most of my patch was rejected, but one question remains. What would be wrong with this: - define_variable ('mkinstalldirs', '$(install_sh) -d', INTERNAL); + define_variable ('mkinstalldirs', '$(mkdir_p) .', INTERNAL); I think it could make the make output more r

Re: AM_PROG_MKDIR_P overcautious?

2005-08-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:09:54AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > OK. Let's just fix the comment then. thank you for resolving that. I think the last part of your patch should be reverted, though: ># On NextStep and OpenStep, the `mkdir' command does not ># recog

A tiny simplification in depend.m4

2005-08-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, would you like the attached patch? Stepan 2005-08-05 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Determine am_compiler_list statically. Index: m4/depend.m4 === RCS file: /c

mkdir_p should not fall back to mkinstalldirs

2005-07-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, is there any reason why mkdir_p still sometimes falls back to mkinstalldirs? I think the code will be nicer if we'll use `install-sh -d' as a universal fallback. Patch attached. Thanks, Stepan Kasal 2005-07-29 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

A cosmetic changes to several lib/am/*.am

2005-07-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
:; fi; instead of mere fi; I don't like it; s there a reason for this? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2005-07-29 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/am/distdir.am: There is no need to call `test -d' before `$(mkdir_p)'. Cosmetic

A typo caused test failure

2005-07-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, library3.test fails; attached please find a patch to fix it. Stepan Kasal 2005-07-29 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * tests/library3.test: Fix a typo which made the test fail. Index: tests/library3.test =

Re: Autoconf/automake support for preprocessable Fortran

2005-07-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:11:16AM +0100, Norman Gray wrote: > :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/autoconf > :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/automake right. Stepan Kasal

Re: improved Automake test for file names with funny characters

2005-07-21 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:56:35PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Here's a fix for that problem. The basic idea is to drop the use > of IFS, except on ancient platforms that don't support mkdir -p. Automake doesn't use non-GNU mkdir -p; it says that Solaris' mkdir -p is not thread safe. See

a typo in a test

2005-07-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I've notice one more typo. Stepan 2005-07-20 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * tests/colon3.test: s/EGREP/FGREP/ Index: tests/colon3.test === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/tests/colon3.test,v

tests/defs should check for libtool.m4 and gettext.m4

2005-07-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, when a test sets $required so that it contains both *libtool* and *gettext*, we should look for libtool.m4 _and_ gettext.m4. Current code in defs.in forgets to look for gettext.m4. Please find attached a proposed patch. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2005-07-20 Stepan Kasal

typos

2005-07-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, I have noticed two typos in the Automake manual. Stepan 2005-07-20 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Fix a typo. * tests/suffix11.test: Fix a typo. Index: doc/automak

Re: improved Automake test for file names with funny characters

2005-07-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
ature? Have a nice day, Stepan 2005-07-20 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/install-sh: Use sed and eval instead of IFS=/, to avoid word splitting. Index: lib/install-sh === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automak

merge the rules for automake and aclocal

2005-07-18 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, would you like the following tiny patch? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal 2005-07-18 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile.am (automake, aclocal): Merge the rules. Index: Makefile.am === RCS file

Re: FYI: update third-party files

2005-07-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 07:40:27PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: >unfortunately, with your update of texinfo.tex, you caught it in > a slightly incorrect state. ... > Could you please update texinfo.tex again? I see Alexandre has done it. Thank you, Stepan

Re: FYI: update third-party files

2005-07-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
. Stepan Kasal On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 07:21:11PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > diff -u -r1.42.2.7 texinfo.tex > --- lib/texinfo.tex 2 Jul 2005 11:33:53 - 1.42.2.7 > +++ lib/texinfo.tex 10 Jul 2005 17:19:02 - > @@ -3249,7 +3249,6 @@ > % Called from \i

Re: FYI: update third-party files, and fix underflow hbox

2005-07-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:33:15PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > * doc/automake.texi (Public macros) : Reword to > fix an underful hbox. ... > -Add support for the @uref{http://dmalloc.com/, Dmalloc package}. > -If the user configures with @option{--with-dmalloc}, then de

a typo

2005-07-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, I noticed a typo. Stepan Index: aclocal.in === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/aclocal.in,v retrieving revision 1.132 diff -u -r1.132 aclocal.in --- aclocal.in 14 May 2005 20:28:50 - 1.132 +++ aclocal.in 1 Jul 2005 0

Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

2005-06-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, now I can answer my own mail ;-) On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > +export PATH > > There is no need to call export again, you have already exported it > in the outer shell. yes, the export has to be there, because of the bug documented

Re: Infinite loop in mdate-sh

2005-06-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:09:12PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Stepan> I see no reason for the `export' here. ... > Alas, many shells, such as Solaris 2.5, IRIX 6.3, IRIX 5.2, AIX > 4.1.5, and Digital UNIX 4.0, forget to `export' the environment > variables they r

Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

2005-06-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
n't have to quote $*. > +export PATH There is no need to call export again, you have already exported it in the outer shell. Of course, none of these changes is necessary; it's just a matter of your taste. Anyway, a patch is attached. Stepan 2005-06-30 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PR

Re: Infinite loop in mdate-sh

2005-06-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
27;t set the variable if it's not set, either. Please find attached a patch which contains both these changes. Happy summer, Stepan 2005-06-30 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/mdate-sh: Don't export TIME_STYLE; it's even better if it's not

Re: FYI: scan for AC_SUBST_TRACE instead of AC_SUBST

2005-06-30 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, thank you for your prompt reaction. The patch removes the line: > -## Location of top build directory relative to this one. > -top_builddir = %TOPDIR% because top_builddir is now substituted by autoconf. The question is: shouldn't the automake "variable" TOPDIR be removed? Wh

Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

2005-06-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I noticed this older post today: On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:50:44PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Noah> I received a bug report about a KDE application that was > Noah> using an old version of mkinstalldirs and failed when one > Noah> of the directories had an embedded space in

Re: FYI: fix race condition in elisp's recover rule

2005-03-31 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:40:29PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Thank you, I've installed these. thanks. > (Except chunk 1 of first patch.) Yes, that was a silly mistake, sorry. Stepan

Re: FYI: fix race condition in elisp's recover rule

2005-03-31 Thread Stepan Kasal
d after the *-typo1.patch. Please note that there are cases where I haven't added the comma, like the following: For instance one directory per program, per library or per module. There is no verb, so it's not a sentence, so I think comma is not needed here. Have a nice day, St

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