Eric Blake wrote:
...
If anything, this issue shows that the Automake::XFile module (and
other similar modules as well) should live in their own git
repository, which both Autoconf and Automake should use as a
submodule -- and which (for $DEITY's sake!), should be unit-tested.
Any volunteer?
Hi Eric, sorry for the delay.
On 04/25/2012 01:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Actually, this appears to make _all_ the XFile uses work; all that
remains broken is places such as bin/autoupdate.in calling raw open
instead of using XFile.
diff --git i/lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm w/lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm
On 04/26/2012 05:12 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Hi Eric, sorry for the delay.
On 04/25/2012 01:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Actually, this appears to make _all_ the XFile uses work; all that
remains broken is places such as bin/autoupdate.in calling raw open
instead of using XFile.
diff
[SNIP]
Eric Blake wrote:
Alas, my perl-fu is weak enough that I'm not sure how good my
unit-testing attempts would be. But moving the files to a common
repository seems doable (how about gnulib?).
I replied:
This could be a good interim solution, as I the paperwork in place for
Gnulib,
* lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Update comments and POD documentation to
suggest a more idiomatic/modern usage.
(open): Be more robust in detecting whether the created file handle
is being opened for writing.
* lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm (update_file, contents): Call the
'Automake::XFile' and
On 04/24/2012 04:50 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Help! I can't release autoconf 2.69 until I figure out how to work
around this patch. After updating to the latest shared files, as well
as applying this patch, I'm now stuck with output going to a literal
Hi Eric, Russ.
On 04/25/2012 01:08 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/24/2012 04:50 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Help! I can't release autoconf 2.69 until I figure out how to work
around this patch. After updating to the latest shared files, as well
as applying
On 04/24/2012 05:17 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Hi Eric, Russ.
On 04/25/2012 01:08 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/24/2012 04:50 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Help! I can't release autoconf 2.69 until I figure out how to work
around this patch. After updating
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Help! I can't release autoconf 2.69 until I figure out how to work
around this patch. After updating to the latest shared files, as well
as applying this patch, I'm now stuck with output going to a literal
file named '-' instead of going to stdout. I
