Re: check4.test consistently failing

2009-04-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Philipp, * Philipp Thomas wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:05:04PM CEST: * Ralf Wildenhues [20090428 22:42]: Note that you can rerun this one test only with either cd tests make check VERBOSE=yes TESTS=check4.test I figured that out myself :) I'll do the test and will report

Re: Script configure failed unexpectedly

2009-04-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Alexander, thanks for the report. * Alexander Kozyrev wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:22:46PM CEST: It was created by GNU Automake configure 1.10.1, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. Invocation command line was $ ./configure --program-suffix=-1.10 --prefix=/usr/local

check10.test failure (was: check4.test consistently failing)

2009-05-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Philipp, BTW, you sent mail to RalfWildenhues at suse.de. This mail address does not belong to me, if it even exists. * Philipp Thomas wrote on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:48:20PM CEST: * Ralf Wildenhues (ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de) [20090429 21:02]: That just is an interesting statement. I

Re: Make require_file_internal handle file names containing pathes

2009-05-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Philipp, * Philipp Thomas wrote on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:29:37PM CEST: As requested here is our patch to make require_file_internal able to deal with file names containing path names along with a tarball containing the test case. Simply unpack the tarball and call 'autoreconf -fi' in the

Re: make dist fails

2009-05-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Kai, * Kai Sterker wrote on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:02:07AM CEST: I have a strange problem with the 'make dist' target. I've been using automake 1.10.1 and autoconf 2.62. Updating to 1.10.2 and 2.63 showed exactly the same behavior. Which libltdl version is the one you're using, and

Re: make dist fails

2009-05-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Kai, * Kai Sterker wrote on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:46:29AM CEST: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Can you post your toplevel Makefile.am? Can you also post the output of make dist SHELL=/bin/sh -x with all generated files unchanged? Did configure

Re: Unable to compile automake

2009-05-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello John, * John Frankish wrote on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 07:20:08AM CEST: I'm trying to compile automake-1.10.2 with gcc-4.2.2, autoconf-2.63, perl-5.8.8 and get this: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local $ make cd . perllibdir=/usr/src/automake-1.10.2/lib:./lib

Re: pointless 'aclocal' warning

2009-05-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, thanks for the report. * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, May 10, 2009 at 05:52:49PM CEST: In the automake HEAD from today, but *not* in automake-1.10.2, this code in a .m4 file m4_ifdef([AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION], [AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION([--flag=error:3:c-format])

Re: make -s libtool

2009-05-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Samuel, * Samuel Thibault wrote on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:56:49PM CEST: I usually use make -s to better see warnings. However, libtool echoes the commands... Automake's autogenerated Makefile.in should check for the presence of -s in MAKEFLAGS, and in that case pass --silent to

Re: How to specify /var/lib in autoconf?

2009-05-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:21:36PM CEST: [moving to bug-automake] FWIW, moving isn't practical if the original reporter isn't kept in Cc:. According to Eric Blake on 4/24/2009 9:48 AM: David Bruce writes: AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLOCALSTATEDIR=\$(pkglocalstatedir)\

Re: all tests pass on Rawhide, Fedora 10, Debian unstable, and more

2009-05-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 03:21:11PM CEST: Are you ready to release 1.11? ;-) ;-) Using the latest from git/master (v1.10b-55-g27f63d4), make check passed on each of the following systems: Fedora rawhide Fedora 10 Debian unstable Red Hat Enterprise

Re: automake 1.11 self test failure: vala5

2009-05-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:08:09AM CEST: * Simon Josefsson wrote on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:47:50PM CEST: Hi! I installed automake 1.11 without any problems except that one self-test failed, see snippet from tests/test-suite.log below. Is a pkg.m4 missing? Yes

Re: automake-1.11 test failure on darwin9 - instmany-python.test

2009-05-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:01:49PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:43:00AM CEST: The instmany-python test is failing for me on Mac OS X 10.5.7. Looks like it is trying to install things into /Library/Python

Re: automake-1.11 test failure on darwin9 - instmany-python.test

2009-05-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Matthias, Peter, * Matthias Klose wrote on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:11:49AM CEST: Peter O'Gorman schrieb: This patch works for me. Thoughts? 2009-??-?? Peter O'Gorman pe...@pogma.com m4/python.m4: Ensure that pythondir and pyexecdir are below ${prefix}. why special case

Re: 1.11 make check failure: specflg10.test

2009-05-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Thien-Thi, * Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:29:06PM CEST: Please find attached specflg10.log; is there any other info that can be of help? I suspect this is related to absense of g++ on the computer. Yep. Fixed as follows. Thanks for the report! Cheers, Ralf

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES has no effect

2009-05-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:37:42AM CEST: * Call the `AM_SILENT_RULES' macro from within the `configure.ac' file. I'm trying to use the second option, because I'm using AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in the old 2-arguments form. After running 'aclocal',

Re: automake 1.11: Lots of failed tests on Solaris 10 x86 w/Sun Studio compiler

2009-05-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Dagobert, * Dagobert Michelsen wrote on Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:44:04PM CEST: Am 18.05.2009 um 23:10 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues: FAIL: insthook.test The insthook.test failure looks like you have some variables like $bindir or $exec_prefix or $prefix set in your environment

Re: automake-1.11 test failure on darwin9 - instmany-python.test

2009-05-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:39:29PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: That aims to ensure that if you do ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local as non-root user, you have a chance to actually install your python files below $HOME, too, even with the buggy python

Re: am--refresh target assumed to be provided by top-level Makefile is not documented

2009-06-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Samuel, thanks for the report. * Samuel Bronson wrote on Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:47:56PM CEST: Hi. I've noticed that when trying to build gdb from git with --enable-maintainer-mode, I get this error: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/naesten/hacking/archer/build/gdb/gnulib' cd ..

Re: automake 1.11: Lots of failed tests on Solaris 10 x86 w/Sun Studio compiler

2009-06-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Dagobert Michelsen wrote on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:20:49AM CEST: Am 24.05.2009 um 14:52 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues: Well, it seems all remaining failures in the newer log look like this | configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH | See `config.log' for more details

Re: Automake Tests Failed

2009-06-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Purvis, please don't top-post, and please keep the list in Cc:, thanks! * Purvis Bedenbaugh wrote on Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:09:25PM CEST: This is the log file for the automake build. Thanks. All test failures look more or less like this: if test emacs != no; then \ set x; \

Re: automake 1.11: Lots of failed tests on Solaris 10 x86 w/Sun Studio compiler

2009-07-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Dagobert, * Dagobert Michelsen wrote on Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 06:56:02AM CEST: have you given this some more thought? Would you consider it safe to release automake 1.11 on Solaris even with the failed tests? Yes, I would. IIRC we fixed all but one test failure (vala4.test) in the git

Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup

2009-07-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paolo, * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:41:52AM CEST: I'll take this up with bug-make. Thank you again for bringing it up. GCC has this: Yes, I know. (I didn't write that code originally, but I worked on it). Thanks for the pointer though. It's one way we can go for a

Re: automake 1.11 parses if statement too late

2009-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Andrew W. Nosenko wrote on Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:05:35PM CEST: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 15:23, Bernhard Rosenkraenzerb...@arklinux.org wrote: this part of a Makefile.am causes errors with automake 1.11: if IPHONE # What ing * came up with the idea of a platform without

Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

2009-08-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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 been OK, since the info files are usually generated before distribution, but `make

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:30:05PM CEST: I forced the automake testsuite to run tests in parallel using the *Zsh* shell, with the following command: $ make -j5 TEST_LOG_COMPILER='zsh --nofunctionargzero' check The following failures turned up:

Re: typo-related *minor* bug in file tests/defs.in, in exit trap code

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:09:57AM CEST: Subject: [PATCH] testsuite: fix a minor glitch. * tests/defs.in (exit trap): Use `$me', not `$as_me', as the name of the current test (used in error messages). Thanks! Applied to maint, will merge to branch-1.11 and master

Re: (maybe) zsh-related bug in tests/defs.in

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:44:42PM CEST: Subject: [PATCH] tests/README: warn about zsh incompatibilities * tests/README (User interface, Getting details from failures): now explicitly state that every test is a shell script, not just a script, and

Re: Renaming old macros

2009-09-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:52:52PM CEST: According to Reuben Thomas on 8/11/2009 6:31 PM: Further to my question about AU_ALIAS, we noticed at autoconf-archive that by defining AC_DEFUN/AU_ALIAS in the new macro file we can't get aclocal --diff to notice

Re: Reference to `sh-utils' should be to `core-utils'

2009-09-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, Alfred, * Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 04:07:48PM CEST: @@ -9203,7 +9203,7 @@ run-time dependencies are satisfied after installation. @vindex AM_INSTALLCHECK_STD_OPTIONS_EXEMPT In a few situations, programs (or scripts) have to be exempted from

Re: mv: cannot stat `test-suite.log': Permission denied

2009-09-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, thanks for the report. * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:57:29PM CEST: Under MinGW, I have now encountered this error at the end of 'make check' when using parallel tests and color tests: mv: cannot stat `test-suite.log': Permission denied and this file was

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

2009-09-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bollinger, John C wrote on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:09:18PM CEST: Automake's cross-directory support seems to have at least one serious problem, however: Makefiles generated by the autotools always build intermediate objects in the top source directory. For example, if I am building

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

2009-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bollinger, John C wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:33:40PM CEST: It seems that normally, the generated configure script creates dummy *.Po files in the right places, thus masking the absence of Make rules for that purpose. In my case, however, I used Make variables in Makefile.am to

Re: Trouble w/ distcleaning vpath builds of elisp files using non-recursive automake

2009-09-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Elias, * Elias Pipping wrote on Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:19:03PM CEST: I've come across a problem w/ running distclean for vpath builds of elisp files when using non-recursive automake. Thanks for the report and the example package; confirmed. You can work around the issue by setting

Re: AVRDUDE-5.8

2009-09-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ty, * Ty Tower wrote on Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:14:21AM CEST: I have avrdude 5.5 installed on my machine running Mandriva 2009 I have been trying to install  5.8 and get this error below which seems to be the ylwrap script but it is too complex for me to sort Can someone tell me if

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:01:51PM CEST: The master branch of the automake Git repository has advanced again since I submitted the latest version of my patch. In particular, a new test cases has been added, which required some editing to work smoothly

Re: bug in perl formline in automake

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, thanks for the report. * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 03:52:29PM CET: automake --help contains this: What is automake --version and perl -V? Any local patches in it that would deviate the line numbers? Files which are automatically distributed, if found: Use of

Re: compile wrapper script with C++ file

2009-11-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi David, and sorry for the long delay, * David Byron wrote on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:18:35PM CET: On Friday September 4th, 2009, Eric Blake wrote: According to David Byron on 8/14/2009 1:57 PM: I'm not sure whether this is something I'm doing wrong or something wrong with automake,

Re: gnupload --help examples

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 04:25:37PM CET: First, all the existing examples in gnupload --help use automake 1.8.2b. This isn't either of rms' recommended version number schemes for test releases. Would you agree to changing to something generic, like foobar-0.9.90?

Re: automake internal error trying to build gpsd

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Rich Wales wrote on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:57:49PM CET: I attempted to build the gpsd sources (gpsd.berlios.de) on an OpenBSD 4.6 system, using autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10. I'm getting the following: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Yuri, nice to read from you again, * Юрий Пухальский wrote on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:38:15AM CET: Automake links binaries through libtool too, at least in my case. Yes, but it doesn't compile the objects for non-libraries using libtool, just like Jack explained. And yes, it works when

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

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:37:55PM CET: 2009/11/28 Ralf Wildenhues: That's why you should do it like this: .pc.$(OBJEXT):        ... I'm confused. Why is this better than writing a .pc.c rule? Doesn't it sacrifice proper dependency tracking

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

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Юрий Пухальский wrote on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:14:04PM CET: It's working like a charm, the autotools system, One small thing is 64-bit ARFLAGS on AIX, but the folks out there in libtool (if i remember right) are aware of the problem, it seems, but i haven't investigated it yet. Try

Re: gnupload --help examples

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, I agree with most everything you wrote (and I elided now). * Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:06:55AM CET: I altered the last example to be about a mistaken upload, instead of retiring an existing release. In general, it seems to me that we don't want to suggest that it's

Re: gnupload --help examples

2009-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:46:40PM CET: Erm, the --rmsymlink and --delete options work on all remaining files up to the net --rmsymlink, --delete, or -- option. So that -- really needs to be there. Or we need to change the semantics of these optinos. Ok, my

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

2009-11-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Юрий Пухальский wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:15:23AM CET: 2009/11/28 Jack Kelly endgame@gmail.com: 2009/11/28 Юрий Пухальский aikip...@gmail.com: My bad. I meant noinst_LIBRARIES, so you make a libcommon.a instead of libcommon.la. This goes into LDADD as with libtool convenience

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

2009-12-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Юрий Пухальский wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:39:27PM CET: 2009/12/1 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de: * Юрий Пухальский wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:15:23AM CET: I've tried using oldstyle libraries, to no avail... It has made a library like this (last lines of ar t output

Re: Remove dependency on gunzip

2009-12-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Antonio, sorry for the delay. * Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:09:47PM CET: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: As gunzip is a link to gzip, the only difference between using gunzip and gzip -d is that the former adds a gratuitous dependency on the gunzip name. Well, from

Re: make check failure when building automake 1.11 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Leo, * Leo Davis wrote on Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 02:01:36AM CET: I built automake 1.11 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.1 Intel). The test that failed is instspc.test. I've attached the log in a zip file because I think email might mangle it. FYI, Peter just reported a similar (I think

Re: [NITPICKING] Missing copyright notice in tests/Makefile.am

2009-12-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:46:02PM CET: I see that the file `tests/Makefile.am' in the Automake repository doesn't include any copyright notice. All the others Makefile.am files, even those simpler/shorter (e.g. `lib/Automake/tests/Makefile.am'), do

Re: Bug: too many loops

2010-01-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Matti, * Matti wrote on Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:49:58PM CET: When trying to install an app and run ./reconf-all for the first time, I always get this error, as you see in the logfile. When I run ./reconf-all a second time, the error doesn't appear and I can install. (not really,

Re: gnupload reordering bug

2010-02-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:01:04PM CET: Any reason why gnupload sends symlink: prior to rmsymlink: commands, even when the are specified the other way around on the command line? The net result is that the just-created symlink is nuked, rather than the intended

Re: cscope.test and instspc.test failure

2010-03-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Johansson wrote on Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:12:01AM CET: I experience failure on cscope.test and instspc.test in the latest git version of automake. I attached the test-suite.log (gzipped). AFAICS, it seems cscope fails because I have fortran compiler. If that's the case I

Re: automake.texi and @acronym

2010-03-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding bug-autoconf ] Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:22:15AM CET: It seems wrong to use @acronym{GNU} three times in the @copying text, when it isn't used in many more places -- including one other place in @copying. Yep, it's definitely used inconsistently.

Re: automake.texi and @acronym

2010-03-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding libtool-patches, in case anyone wants to disagree ] * Karl Berry wrote on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:50:38PM CET: I'm okay with changing the m4 and autoconf manuals with s/@acronym{GNU}/GNU/ s/@acronym{(.*)}/\1/ So the preferred color now is this, I guess:

Re: automake.texi and @acronym

2010-03-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:42:14PM CET: Is the intention that even the n...@acronym{gnu} cases should be replaced? Then what purpose is the @acronym keyword for? I wrote about that earlier. Minor typographic change which is rarely used in GNU manuals. De facto

Re: Passing '$'-sequences through unmodified?

2010-04-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Philip, * Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:35:37AM CEST: I have the following trivial automake sequence in 21 SYMFILES = $(srcdir)/uni.h $(shell $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -E $(srcdir)/header.c | $(AWK) -f $(srcdir)/script.awk) but when I run automake on this, I get:

Re: Some warnings of type `unsupported' don't cause automake -Werror to fail

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 06:17:29PM CEST: Recently, I stumbled upon a weird behaviour of automake: apparently, even when given the `-Werror' flag, it doesn't fail on warnings of type `unsupported' which concern the copresence of `configure.ac' and `configure.in'.

Re: Failure in test subobj9.test with heirloom make

2010-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:50:54PM CEST: While trying out the Automake testsuite using Heirloom make as $MAKE. I encounterd a failure in test `subobj9.test'. Attached here are the test log and the testscript-generated Makefile and Makefile.in heirloom

Re: Failure in test subobj9.test with heirloom make

2010-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:52:41PM CEST: At Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'm trying to understand which of these lines this make interprets wrongly: include file include ./file include .//file This one is sufficient o trigger the bug

Re: Failure in test silent5.test with heirloom make

2010-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:31:05PM CEST: I encounterd the following failure when trying out the Automake testsuite using Heirloom make as $MAKE: $ strings /opt/heirloom/bin/make | grep '@(#)' @(#)make.sl 1.40 (gritter) 3/15/07 The failure is not spurious,

Re: Failure in test silent5.test with heirloom make

2010-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:25:41PM CEST: I'm guessing this has to do with chains of inference rules not being detected or so. Yeah, the make has a .l.o rule that triggers before our .l.c and .c.o rule chains. I guess this could be worked around by adding explicit rules

Re: Failure in test silent5.test with heirloom make

2010-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:41:21AM CEST: At Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Yeah, the make has a .l.o rule that triggers before our .l.c and .c.o rule chains. Do you know if this happens also with Solaris make, or is just a quirk specific

Re: Failure in test silent5.test with heirloom make

2010-04-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:30:46PM CEST: At Wednesday 21 April 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: If you have a pointer to a similar make implementation without the heirloom-specific quirks, I'd be happy to use it instead. Yes: Solaris make. I'm guessing

Re: Failure in test silent5.test with heirloom make

2010-04-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 02:25:08PM CEST: At Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Yeah, heirlooom make has a .l.o rule that triggers before our .l.c and .c.o rule chains. I guess this could be worked around by adding explicit rules (at least that's

Re: Failure in test silent5.test with heirloom make

2010-05-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:40:41PM CEST: OK, I must admit to be stuck here. How can I know what objects files are expected to be compiled from, say, a bar.c file, in turn generated from a bar.l file? Or (e.g.) how can I distinguish the following

Re: AC_LIBOBJ with file in subdirectory does not work

2010-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:11:45AM CEST: I see a few possible alternative ways out: - Automake requires subdir-objects if you put slashes into $LIBOBJS, There are cases where the developer does not want 'subdir-objects'. I'm having the problem with AC_LIBOBJ in the

Re: AC_LIBOBJ with file in subdirectory does not work

2010-05-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
gettext-tools/libgettextpo/ChangeLog: 2010-05-26 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add subdir-objects. (libgettextpo_la_CPPFLAGS): New variable, to force renamed objects. diff --git a/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am b/gettext-tools

Re: internal error in aclocal

2010-06-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:32:01PM CEST: The 'aclocal' program asked me to report this. I'm using automake 1.11.1, autoconf 2.65, m4 1.4.14. aclocal: aclocal: ## Internal Error ## aclocal: aclocal: Final $ should be

Re: ‘libunistring’ module errors

2010-06-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding bug-automake ] Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:01:29PM CEST: The reason is that 'aclocal' has generated an aclocal.m4 file that does not include m4/libunistring.m4. I thought that 'aclocal' was using autom4te with --trace options, implying that any

Re: [NITPICKING] Automake manual: missing release stats for 1.10.3 and 1.11.1

2010-06-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 06:47:54PM CEST: The automake manual, as build from latest git *master branch*, misses release stats for the bugfix-releases 1.10.3 and 1.11.1 (see chapter 28 History, section 3 Release Statistics). Is this intentional, or the

Re: mtime of installed files

2010-07-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ludovic, * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 06:28:46PM CEST: Background: Guile 1.9/2.0 has an auto-compilation feature whereby if a source file has no corresponding object file in the search path, or if the object file is older than the source file, then the source file is

Re: mtime of installed files

2010-07-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ludo, * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:18:39AM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues writes: guile_install_ccacheDATA = install-ccacheDATA $(guile_install_ccacheDATA): install-modDATA For the record, this was fixed along these lines. The auto-compile mtime checks were also

Re: aclocal directory not found error

2010-07-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Behdad, * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:20:37AM CEST: So this tiny issue has been bugging me for years. Thought I report. Can you please make aclocal silently ignore include directories that do not exist? It bothers me that on a new system when I set my env vars to

Re: aclocal directory not found error

2010-07-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Mike Frysinger wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:52:41AM CEST: On Thursday, July 29, 2010 01:40:24 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:20:37AM CEST: So this tiny issue has been bugging me for years. Thought I report. Can you please make aclocal

Re: Intermittent test failures

2010-07-31 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ludovic, * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:08:39AM CEST: FYI the Automake test suite currently fails on Hydra. The build at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/502179 has 5 failures; the one at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/502171 has 2 failures, etc. thanks again for the report.

AX_MPI/ACX_MPI and packages using only the MPI compiler wrappers

2010-07-31 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
a7ed24ccfb253faec3ecfec3abdfdc89d0c460a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:46:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix recommendation for compiling everything with MPI. * m4/ax_mpi.m4: Fix typos when compiling everything with MPI. Update description to include

Re: automake-1.11.1 - make check failure on AIX V8BETA - exeext4-p.dir and mkinst3.dir

2010-08-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Rainer, * Rainer Tammer wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 02:34:45PM CEST: I just tested automake-1.11.1 on AIX V7BETA. All make check tests succeed but two. Here are the two failures. I have also attached the complete test-suit.log. thanks for the bug report. Both failures are new to me,

Re: header file from yacc doesn't go to a distribution (automake 1.11)

2010-08-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Юрий, * Юрий Пухальский wrote on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:38:11PM CEST: In the documentation it's stated that The intermediate files generated by yacc (or lex) will be included in any distribution that is made. That way the user doesn't need to have yacc or lex. But albeit the .c files are

Re: Segmentation fault with Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/make

2010-08-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:40:15PM CEST: The test `parallel-tests9.test' fails on Solaris 10 when using /usr/xpg4/bin/make as $MAKE, due to a submake invocation returning an exit status `139' (i.e. a Segmantation fault). Thanks for the report. A

Re: Intermittent test failures

2010-08-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello again, * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:11:59PM CEST: * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:08:39AM CEST: FYI the Automake test suite currently fails on Hydra. The build at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/502179 has 5 failures; the one at http

Re: [PATCH] Don't hide the table of contents

2010-08-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:40:36PM CEST: Don't hide the table of contents. * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning. Good one! Thanks, also for the explanations. Since the patch doesn't cause HTML node names to change nor

Re: doc: misplaced sections about Emacs Lisp, Java, Python

2010-08-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, thanks for the report! * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:52:55PM CEST: In the Automake documentation, the sections Emacs Lisp, Java, Python are in a chapter Other GNU Tools, two chapters away from the sections C++ support, Objective C Support, Assembly Support, Java

Re: automake-1.11.1 test results on old OSF/1

2010-08-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jay, * Jay K wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:34:50PM CEST:  = http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/testlogs.tar.gz Thanks. You have GNU coreutils in your $HOME/bin I bet, but it looks like it's a fairly old version; no non-GNU cp uses `quoting' in its error reporting, and

Re: Confused section of 1.11 manual

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:59:47AM CEST: Section EXEEXT: Unfortunately, due to the change in Autoconf 2.50, this means you must always add this extension. However, this is a problem for maintainers who know their package will never run on a platform that

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST: Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be included by the recursive make. Bob, can you try out this patch? Thanks, Ralf 2010-09-06 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de parallel-tests: avoid

parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. (was: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?)

2010-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:15:54AM CEST: --- a/lib/am/check.am +++ b/lib/am/check.am + { echo TEST_LOGS = ; \ + for f in $$list; do \ + test .log = $$f || echo $$f;

Re: Five bugs in Vala integration

2010-09-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Valentin, * Valentin David wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:02:09PM CEST: I looked at how Vala was integrated into Automake, and it seemed to me that it was very fishy. Yes, I agree. Improving that would be very nice, even only providing failing test cases would be good. We've had two

Re: verbosity of test failure feedback

2010-09-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:36:05AM CEST: What about creating a separeted tarball for any failed/skipped test (maybe in a proper common subdirectory `tests/test-suite.dir'), then displaiyng a message which tells the user detailed information about tests' failures are

Re: Five bugs in Vala integration

2010-09-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ trying to add vala-list; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5008 ] * Valentin David wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:08:00PM CEST: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Well, are the derived sources portable, i.e., not depending

Re: AC_PROG_INSTALL does not trigger install-sh availability

2010-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, and adding bug-automake, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:42:15PM CEST: On 09/14/2010 03:32 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: using a configure.ac file with just four lines: AC_INIT([foo], [1]) AC_PROG_INSTALL I can produce a configure script by running `autoreconf -fi`,

Re: Yet another bug in Lex/Yacc support (maintainer-mode).

2010-09-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:34:06PM CEST: While trying to improve and extend test `mmodely.test', I stumbled upon the bug exposed by the attached test script (weird bug, BTW: it's triggered with GNU make and FreeBSD make, but not with Solaris make; role

Re: [OMPI devel] Setting AUTOMAKE_JOBS

2010-09-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralph Castain wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:41:38AM CEST: My point is just that it is unwise to assume that the OMPI build can utilize all available processors. I'm sure it's fine for the MTT runs, especially on Jeff's machines as they are dedicated to that purpose - just not a good

Re: Intermittent test failures

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Finally continuing this: * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:48:31PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues writes: Fix timestamp issues by ensuring configure takes at least a second. * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): If we didn't sleep here, start a sleep

Re: even @C_FALSE@ (unsatisfied) contains rule to produce binary

2010-10-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, thanks for taking the time to report it here. * Jan Kratochvil wrote on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:57:28PM CEST: The a program gets built only `if F' below. Makefile.in correctly contains: @f_t...@a: b.c @F_TRUE@ gcc -o $@ $ -Wall But while does it also contains:

Re: even `if FALSE' *_SOURCES should be used for TAGS

2010-10-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, and thanks for report and analysis! * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:51:58PM CEST: On Monday 11 October 2010, Jan Kratochvil wrote: `make tags' will not index sources which are listed in *_SOURCES += ... in unsatisfied AM_CONDITIONAL blocks. IMO they should be.

Re: dist_noinst_MANS

2010-10-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Akim, thanks for the feature request, and sorry for the delay. * Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:44:34PM CEST: Currently Automake accepts happily such a variable name, but it does not use it (the files are not dist'ed). I agree EXTRA_DIST is fine, but I'm used to being able

Re: even `if FALSE' *_SOURCES should be used for TAGS

2010-10-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:54:31PM CEST: On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:51:58PM CEST: OTOH AM_CONDITIONAL can be used for example if an optional sources part

Re: dist_noinst_MANS

2010-10-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:41:26PM CEST: Le 13 oct. 10 à 20:12, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : What would an uninstalled man page be useful for? Actually it's for symmetry with the corresponding programs that might, or might not, be installed. It's for an autoconfiscated

Re: Failure on test parallel-tests5.test

2010-11-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5061 ] * Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:49:00PM CET: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:48:10AM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: (ulimit -t 300

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