--do-changelog

2012-08-20 Thread ghostma...@gmail.com
Hello everyone, it seems that I've recently found a new small bug inside gnulib-tool. We have --do-changelog, but it is never used. It is only set when we process command-line arguments, but I couldn't find any piece of code where we test its value. I guess that it lives in gnulib-tool since

gnulib-tool and short options

2012-08-20 Thread ghostma...@gmail.com
Hello everyone, since it is very easy to modify command-line arguments and options with argparse, I want to ask you whether you want to receive short options. For example, with old gnulib-tool we can type '--import', '--impor', '--impo', etc. But we can't easily type '-i'. It is easy to fix

[PATCH] maint.mk: avoid redundant file name in message

2012-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
$(_sc_search_regexp) already prefixes its errors with $(ME), so failure on one of these rules looked like: maint.mk: maint.mk: replace strcmp calls above with STREQ/STRNEQ * top/maint.mk (sc_prohibit_strcmp, sc_unmarked_diagnostics) (sc_prohibit_defined_have_decl_tests, sc_const_long_option)

[PATCH] Support for xattrs in gnulib

2012-08-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Hello again, I'd like to ask you whether it would be possible to add support of extended file system attributes into Gnulib code base. The reason is that I would like to add support for extended attributes into upstream GNU tar. I'm proposing two patches. 1) First is adding basic xattrs

[PATCH] Support for xattrs in gnulib

2012-08-20 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Hello again, I'd like to ask you whether it would be possible to add support of extended file system attributes into Gnulib code base. The reason is that I would like to add support for extended attributes into upstream GNU tar. I'm proposing two patches. 1) First is adding basic xattrs

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: avoid redundant file name in message

2012-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: $(_sc_search_regexp) already prefixes its errors with $(ME), so failure on one of these rules looked like: maint.mk: maint.mk: replace strcmp calls above with STREQ/STRNEQ * top/maint.mk (sc_prohibit_strcmp, sc_unmarked_diagnostics) (sc_prohibit_defined_have_decl_tests,