bug#13588: Pax hangs in case big UID

2013-03-20 Thread Jack Kelly
Hi Petr, I have a couple of observations: - AC_MSG_ERROR is going to stop the configure anyway, so you don't need exit 1. - I'd suggest the following messages for your AC_MSG_ERRORS: the uid is too large for ustar-format tarfiles. Change format in configure.ac the gid is too large for

bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

2013-01-31 Thread Jack Kelly
Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu writes: On 31/01/2013 20:58, Jack Kelly wrote: IMHO, that seems like a great way to cause trouble for unsuspecting users. (Anyone remember KDE4.0?) Can you expand on why you think it's a good plan? Because unlike KDE, automake can put a big fat

bug#12620: Parallel tests vs fast tests (and beyond)

2012-10-11 Thread Jack Kelly
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: This whole problem is an instance of a more general problem, of which another example is parallel make: for best performance, it should probably batch up calls to gcc, for example, so that multiple source files are compiled by

bug#12058: AM_PATH_SDL does not find SDL framework installations on Mac OSX

2012-07-26 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: IMNSHO that choice of a name it is a serious mistake by whoever is defining/distributing that macro, for two reasons: 1. it gives the wrong impression that the macro is provided by or related to

bug#11806: (setq load-path ..) of elisp-comp

2012-07-05 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: Usually I'd agree, and in fact I had done as you're suggesting in a previous attempt; but that caused the test 'lisp3.sh' to fail :-/ With the patch I've posted, the testsuite remains clean at least. So I say

bug#11806: (setq load-path ..) of elisp-comp

2012-06-28 Thread Jack Kelly
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/28/2012 06:47 AM, Makoto Fujiwara wrote: I do have problem compiling *.el files with tc-2.3.1 (svn version) I think this is the relevant Makefile.am:

bug#11356: automake 1.12 and (C) 2011

2012-04-27 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/27/2012 03:18 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 04/27/2012 05:30 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: +++ b/aclocal.in @@ -840,9 +840,8 @@ $output;    # name in the header.    $output = # generated automatically by aclocal

bug#10226: Drop redundant Python 1.5 support?

2011-12-05 Thread Jack Kelly
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: Reading python.m4, I notice that it claims to support only Python = 2.0, yet still has specific support for Python 1.5. Would a patch along the following lines therefore be accepted? (If so I'll write the changelog entry c.!)

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM, tsuna tsuna...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: As my java foo is pretty weak, I'm not sure how to handle jar manifests, jar entry points, or other jar/javac subtleties and advanced features.

bug#8881: config.h double inclusion

2011-06-16 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: On 06/16/11 10:36, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: I'm thinking that maybe config.h should be generated with a double inclusion guard But the general rule is that config.h must always be included first, no? So there shouldn't

bug#8665: automake should offer APIs to honour silent-rules verbosity from shell code in Makefiles

2011-05-12 Thread Jack Kelly
Comments inline, after some snipping. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: -snip intro- I thus propose we add an API of this kind.  At first, this might be as simple as just defining two proper `AM_V_ECHO' and `AM_Q_ECHO' variables;

bug#8289: distcheck and make dvi

2011-03-20 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: Another possible change, in addition to messing with the documentation, would be to make the dvi a variable that such non-dvi-generating people can override with pdf if they wish.  Then they could get the benefit

bug#8111: after adding a(nother) subconfigure, rerunning make fails

2011-02-24 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: Can we fix this somehow in either Autoconf or Automake? Could we save the results of tracing AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS calls? If there's a change, invoke ./config.status --recheck. If not, config.status --recheck

bug#8104: automake suggests use of AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, this has been replaced by LT_INIT

2011-02-23 Thread Jack Kelly
Version: 1.11.1 (ubuntu 10.10). I have inspected the most recent master and it appears to also have this bug. configure.ac: AC_INIT([a], [b], [c]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) dnl no LT_INIT -- on purpose AC_PROG_CC AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT Makefile.am: lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la

bug#8044: Automake should support autotest-based testsuites.

2011-02-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: The steps required to set up an autotest-based testsuite are already excellently described in the autoconf manual:  http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Making-testsuite-Scripts.html and seem

bug#7945: Is AM_PATH_PYTHON missing some versions in _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST?

2011-01-30 Thread Jack Kelly
(automake-1.11.1, ubuntu 10.10 package) Hi automakers, While poking around python.m4, I noticed that python2.6 and python2.7 are not mentioned in the list of python interpreters defined in _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Is this intentional? -- Jack

bug#7944: Should AM_PATH_PYTHON call AC_ARG_VAR?

2011-01-30 Thread Jack Kelly
Hi automakers, I've noticed that if you put AM_PATH_PYTHON in configure.ac, it doesn't add an entry for PYTHON in ./configure --help. Is PYTHON meant to be a user's variable? Minimal configure.ac: AC_INIT AM_PATH_PYTHON AC_OUTPUT -- Jack

bug#7621: add a way to pass link dependencies

2011-01-22 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org wrote: For (A), the list of options to be ignored during dependency extraction is the following (cf. gnulib/build-aux/config.rpath):  -rpath /some/path  -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/some/path  -Wl,-rpath,/some/path  -lopt=-rpath

bug#7655: conditional _TEXINFOS should be supported

2010-12-16 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: if COND info_TEXINFOS = foo.texi foo_TEXINFOS = bar.texi nodist_info_TEXINFOS = generated.texi endif should work to generate and install foo.{info,pdf,...} only if COND, but distribute foo.texi and bar.texi

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/15/2010 12:59 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:15:13PM CEST: On 09/15/2010 04:37 AM, langdead wrote: Whether does ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS= -I @path only work for Makefile.am? In the

Re: aclocal directory not found error

2010-07-29 Thread Jack Kelly
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: one example where ive hit this is with projects using git:  - initial clone is done  - local libtool is configured with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4) like it suggests  - m4/ only contains generated files, and those arent in

Re: Feature request: per-file compilation flags

2010-03-31 Thread Jack Kelly
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan rma...@umich.edu wrote:   A typical use case for me is when one particular function that resides in a file by itself must be compiled without optimizations so that some machine-specific numerical information can be calculated accurately. With

Re: convenience library dependencies (was: 1.11 doesn't add sources with nonstandard suffixes when making a binary)

2009-12-01 Thread Jack Kelly
2009/12/2 Юрий Пухальский aikip...@gmail.com: Aye, that was what i thought. Jack misled me:) Sorry. I must've got mixed up and thought you were building _PROGRAMS and not _LIBRARIES. I've used noinst_LIBRARIES before when building a program. -- Jack

Re: 1.11 doesn't add sources with nonstandard suffixes when making a binary

2009-11-27 Thread Jack Kelly
2009/11/27 Юрий Пухальский aikip...@gmail.com: Automake links binaries through libtool too, at least in my case. -make output--- /oracle/10.2.0.4/bin/proc CODE=ANSI_C include=../../include include=/oracle/10.2.0.4/lib include=/usr/include ireclen=4800 oreclen=4800 select_error=no

Re: 1.11 doesn't add sources with nonstandard suffixes when making a binary

2009-11-27 Thread Jack Kelly
2009/11/28 Юрий Пухальский aikip...@gmail.com: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jack Kelly endgame@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/27 Юрий Пухальский aikip...@gmail.com: Automake links binaries through libtool too, at least in my case. -make output--- /oracle/10.2.0.4/bin/proc CODE

Re: 1.11 doesn't add sources with nonstandard suffixes when making a binary

2009-11-27 Thread Jack Kelly
2009/11/28 Юрий Пухальский aikip...@gmail.com: -snip- My bad. I meant noinst_LIBRARIES, so you make a libcommon.a instead of libcommon.la. This goes into LDADD as with libtool convenience libraries. I haven't checked it, but does it support library dependencies like .la? This i use

Re: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Bollinger, John C john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: That would also help in the case where one or more $(DEPDIR)s is accidentally or cluelessly deleted -- the developer would not have to re-run configure (not an obvious solution) to fix the project directory.

Re: compile wrapper script with C++ file

2009-09-04 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Eric Blakee...@byu.net wrote: I'm not sure whether this is something I'm doing wrong or something wrong with automake, autoconf or libtool.  At the moment I'm leaning to autoconf + automake. compile is maintained by automake, so I've redirected your patch

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

2009-08-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ralf Wildenhuesralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: Hello Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:44:57AM CEST: I was hoping that AM_SILENT_RULES would silence the complex makeinfo invocations on texinfo files, but it doesn't. I thought that might've

texi2dvi ignores -o under unclear circumstances.

2009-08-11 Thread Jack Kelly
Hello, I think I have found a bug with texi2dvi. It seems to manifest only when using -o to write the dvi to a subdirectory and when the .texi file has a sectioning command like @top. texi2dvi emits an identical copy of the dvi file in the current working directory. I found a similar-sounding

Re: texi2dvi ignores -o under unclear circumstances.

2009-08-11 Thread Jack Kelly
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Karl Berryk...@freefriends.org wrote: Thanks for the report.    Running texi2dvi -o doc/foo.dvi doc/foo.texi causes a copy of foo.dvi I wound up fixing this in my case by adding foo.dvi (equivalent) to CLEANFILES in Makefile.am. Perhaps automake can change the

Re: AM_PROG_GCJ fails at `make' if nothing else defines OBJEXT

2009-06-07 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Ralf Wildenhuesralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: 2. The suffix mechanism might not be quite enough for Java projects with native methods using the C++ interface. I'm sorry, but I fail to parse this.  Even with the example you gave, it is unclear to me.  Can you

Re: AM_PROG_GCJ fails at `make' if nothing else defines OBJEXT

2009-05-25 Thread Jack Kelly
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Jack Kelly endgame@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:24:40PM CEST: I've found that if nothing else defines OBJEXT, AM_PROG_GCJ won't do

Re: AM_PROG_GCJ fails at `make' if nothing else defines OBJEXT

2009-05-24 Thread Jack Kelly
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:24:40PM CEST: I've found that if nothing else defines OBJEXT, AM_PROG_GCJ won't do it and then make will fail with an error like:   make: *** No rule