Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61] testsuite: 221 failed

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it right that POSIX requires all these broken pipe errors when the reader closes early, before all output is consumed? I don't see where POSIX requires that behavior, but perhaps I'm not looking at the right part of POSIX.

Re: autoconf 2.61: AC_DEFINE variable with parenthesis

2006-12-18 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:35:37AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: Andrey Simonenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AC_DEFINE([DEF(x)], [somevalue]) Ouch! That's not supported, and I'm surprised you got it to work as well as it did. status.m4 contains a code which supports this, so until

Re: autoconf 2.61: AC_DEFINE variable with parenthesis

2006-12-18 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Andrey, On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Andrey Simonenko wrote: AC_DEFINE([DEF(x)], [somevalue], [A macro to do a woo.]) As I understand this trick will not be supported in next versions of autoconf, so I reorganize logic of my .h files and now only

Re: autoconf 2.61: AC_DEFINE variable with parenthesis

2006-12-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:31:59PM CET: I understand that there is no real reason to use this feature, but OTOH, when we remove it we'll again hear cries that the Autotools people are never able to produce a backward compatible release. Shouldn't we rather maintain the

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 3 4 13 14 failed

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Inge Witsoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when installing autoconf 2.59 (I already have autoconf 2.60 installed, but I need 2.59 when trying to cross-compile GMP to a MSP microcontroller) I get 4 failed tests when running 'make check' (see attached log file). Autoconf 2.59 is frozen, so perhaps

Re: autoconf 2.61: AC_DEFINE variable with parenthesis

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
AC_DEFINE([DEF(x)], [somevalue]) Ouch! That's not supported, and I'm surprised you got it to work as well as it did. status.m4 contains a code which supports this, so until now I had no idea that this may be deprecated. I think this feature was available since the beginning of