Re: [ovs-discuss] configure tests for gcc builtins with CFLAGS=-Werror

2016-05-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 08:05:38AM +, Chris Packham wrote: > We've run into a problem trying to compile openvswitch with CFLAGS=-Werror. Use "configure --enable-Werror", as documented in Open vSwitch's INSTALL.md file.

Re: confusing autotest file name citations in logs

2011-01-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: * Ben Pfaff wrote on Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:47:21PM CET: ../../tests/add-files.at:108: pspp -O format=csv save-a.sps That is, it makes it look as though add-files.at is directly inside tests/. Instead, it would be better if it would write

confusing autotest file name citations in logs

2011-01-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
at least indicate that some part of the name was omitted: ../../tests/.../add-files.at:108: pspp -O format=csv save-a.sps I'm willing to help, if someone will give an opinion as to which alternative is better. Thanks, Ben. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Bug #593838: AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION misuses AS_VAR_PUSHDEF variable

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
to -Wformat=2 and it's building something like ax_cv_gcc_option__Wformat_2. Yes, the original bug report was for the behavior of: AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION(-std=c99) See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593838 -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Error message doesn't say, error

2009-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
configure time. I've found that too late and needed at bootstrap (pre-configure) time. Consequently, I think version stamping should be its own step. A step done at bootstrap time. You can run autoconf -t 'AC_INIT:$2' to get the version number at bootstrap time. -- Ben Pfaff http

Re: bug in AC_FUNC_FSEEKO

2006-12-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
James Andrewartha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tracing it back, the problem comes from AC_FUNC_FSEEKO - the config.log for the above build contains: [...] then incorrectly causes HAVE_FSEEKO to be defined. I'm using autoconf 2.61 on Debian etch. An fseeko-related bug was fixed in Debian's

Re: Bug#375349: autoconf: puts |#_!!_#| in output files

2006-06-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Closing this bug, because it is not a bug in Autoconf, in my opinion. -- On Perl: It's as if H.P. Lovecraft, returned from the dead and speaking by seance to Larry Wall, designed a language both elegant and terrifying for his Elder Things to write programs in, and forgot that the Shoggoths

Re: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@

2006-06-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
in the Autoconf manual is followed. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org

AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@

2006-06-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I've seen a flurry of Debian BTS emails around this bug, but none of them have made it clear to me what I should do about it. In the long term, I suspect that the Autoconf macros in the apr-util package should be fixed, and that autoconf-doc should document that $@ may be changed by some macros.

Re: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@

2006-06-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the patch I installed. Thanks for installing that. I'll reassign the Debian bug to the documentation package. [...] However, let me point out a spelling error: +Autocoonf macros often use the @command{set} command to update ^ -- Ben

Worth mentioning that Gnome needs a fix for newer Autoconf?

2006-06-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
#370282: Introduction of datarootdir causes regression in macros expecting double-expansion to work Reply-To: Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date

Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED and autoheader

2006-05-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to the autoconf manual, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED is able to handle variables as its first argument. Yet it appears it cannot. Perhaps autoheader must extrapolate what possible values will be defined, and it just fails to do that

Re: AC_PATH_X checks for Xt, not for X itself

2005-09-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
to Xt, not X itself). See Debian bug 327655. Thanks! I'll put this fix into the Debian packaging of 2.59, so we'll probably hear about it if it breaks anything in practice. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org

AC_PATH_X checks for Xt, not for X itself

2005-09-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Debian bug 327655 complains that AC_PATH_X in Autoconf checks for the presence of Xt development headers and libraries, whereas the stated purpose of the macro is to check for X headers and libraries. In Debian, Xt was recently broken out from the main X development package, so this check has