Re: bug#10766: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 07/12/2012 09:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 07/12/2012 12:42 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: In the light of our discussion, attached is the patch I'd finally like to push. WDYT? Looks fine to me (although I have not actually tested it). Pushed now. Thanks, Stefano

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Peter. On 07/11/2012 11:21 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2012-07-11 14:44, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 07/09/2012 07:04 PM, Max Horn wrote: I am currently looking into packaging automake 1.12.1 for Fink http://www.finkproject.org/ on Mac OS X 10.7. Doing that, several test suite failures

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-07-12 10:51, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Peter. On 07/11/2012 11:21 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2012-07-11 14:44, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 07/09/2012 07:04 PM, Max Horn wrote: I am currently looking into packaging automake 1.12.1 for Fink http://www.finkproject.org/ on Mac OS X

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/12/2012 08:37 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Agreed (albeit it does its dirty work for now). Any suggestion on how to make it more reliable? Is test /usr/bin/CC -ef /usr/bin/cc portable enough? I have no idea ... it seems to work on Cygwin 1.5 though. In general, 'test a -ef b' is

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Eric. On 07/12/2012 05:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 07/12/2012 08:37 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Agreed (albeit it does its dirty work for now). Any suggestion on how to make it more reliable? Is test /usr/bin/CC -ef /usr/bin/cc portable enough? I have no idea ... it seems to work

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/12/2012 10:23 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Other than that, the only supported method in existing POSIX for checking for equal files is by parsing 'ls -i' output; but I don't know if 'ls -i' is portable to ancient hosts. I was fearing this would have got quickly complex and messy ...

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/12/2012 11:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Minor correction: That said, /bin/RMDIR is probably completely portable, but seems like it ^ not would be reliable in practice. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-07-12 17:48, Eric Blake wrote: On 07/12/2012 08:37 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Agreed (albeit it does its dirty work for now). Any suggestion on how to make it more reliable? Is test /usr/bin/CC -ef /usr/bin/cc portable enough? I have no idea ... it seems to work on Cygwin 1.5

Re: bug#10766: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 07/12/2012 07:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 07/12/2012 10:23 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Other than that, the only supported method in existing POSIX for checking for equal files is by parsing 'ls -i' output; but I don't know if 'ls -i' is portable to ancient hosts. I was fearing this

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-07-12 16:37, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 07/12/2012 04:00 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: Stefano Lattarini wrote: Since that requirement is only needed for bootstrapping, I could send you a (patched) tarball to test (so that you'll only require an autoconf = 2.62). Would that be more

Re: bug#10766: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/12/2012 12:42 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: In the light of our discussion, attached is the patch I'd finally like to push. WDYT? Looks fine to me (although I have not actually tested it). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 07/09/2012 07:04 PM, Max Horn wrote: Hi there, Hi Max. I am currently looking into packaging automake 1.12.1 for Fink http://www.finkproject.org/ on Mac OS X 10.7. Doing that, several test suite failures popped up, which I am now working through to resolve. In the meantime, could you

Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-11 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-07-11 14:44, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 07/09/2012 07:04 PM, Max Horn wrote: Hi there, Hi Max. I am currently looking into packaging automake 1.12.1 for Fink http://www.finkproject.org/ on Mac OS X 10.7. Doing that, several test suite failures popped up, which I am now working