[PATCH] bootstrap: suppress stderr chatter

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Eggert
--- ChangeLog |5 + build-aux/bootstrap |6 ++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 64c63bc..12c39f6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2012-05-14 Paul Eggert + bootstrap: suppress stde

[PATCH] bootstrap: .gitignore files created by autopoint, libtool

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Eggert
I ran into this problem when bootstrapping the latest diffutils. After './bootstrap', 'git status' reported lots of untracked files m4/codeset.m4, m4/gettext.m4, etc. These files were created by autopoint and do not need to be version-controlled. * build-aux/bootstrap: Put into .gitignore the file

Re: Comparing binary files with Diff 3.2 compiled with MinGW

2012-05-14 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 19:37:33 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, bug-gnu-ut...@gnu.org > > Thanks for the diffutils patch. We're a bit better off with something > even closer to the pre-2006 approach, which took care to convert > size_t to off_t before negating it, as that i

Re: [PATCH] ignore-value: remove deprecated ignore_ptr function

2012-05-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote on 2012-01-10: >> We deprecated ignore_ptr a year ago: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3784/focus=3802 >> >> So I've removed it. >> ... >> +2012-01-10 Jim Meyering >> + >> +ignore-value: remove deprecated ignore_pt

[PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: support the log message format used in Bison

2012-05-14 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! In Bison we have chosen to leave git cherry-pick additions in the log messages. Beside for a while I have been using a git log format that is not expected by git-log-to-ChangeLog: the "* file: change." section is tab-indented as in a ChangeLog. This is an example of such an git log message:

Re: Comparing binary files with Diff 3.2 compiled with MinGW

2012-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/12/2012 05:37 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/12/2012 10:41 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> I would suggest to use a function >> >>int setmode (int fd, int o_mode); > > That would clash with the setmode function defined > in in FreeBSD etc., which is partly why we > removed this stuff from di