Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-10-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:36, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:04:55PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >>Robert Millan wrote: > >>>We should start doing that, and I can help. Just requested copyright papers > >>>myself (I assume you've already done th

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-10-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:48, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:36:47PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > >>>libtool maintainers: Would you consider giving either Scott or me > > >>>(preferably > > >>>both) with CVS access? That'd help a lot getting libtool in shape for all > > >>>

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-10-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:36:47PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > My apologies for having taken so long to respond to this thread. My > hacking time is short, and the thread was growing faster than I could read > it... :-) No problem. > >>>libtool maintainers: Would you consider giving either

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-10-07 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
My apologies for having taken so long to respond to this thread. My hacking time is short, and the thread was growing faster than I could read it... :-) Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:04:55PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Robert Millan wrote: We should start doing that, and

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:36:13AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Getting these patches accepted upstream is tricky though, I've sent some bug fixes through. A few days ago I decided to have a go getting some of the portability patches (some of which are large) accepted, I

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:36:13AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Actually if it was branch-1-5 you were testing, that'd be the new 1.5.0a > (1.5.1) release. 1.5b would be on HEAD (as far as I understand the > esoteric version numbering upstream use) and a pre-release of > libtool 1.6 (which

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:46, Robert Millan wrote: > The libtool upstream maintainers are preparing a new 1.5b release. On their > behalf I've recently attempted to test a snapshot from CVS branch-1-5 on all > architectures Debian supports (or pretends to support) that I had access to. > Actually

libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-29 Thread Robert Millan
[ CCing to debian maintainer and libtool upstream ] Hi there folks. The libtool upstream maintainers are preparing a new 1.5b release. On their behalf I've recently attempted to test a snapshot from CVS branch-1-5 on all architectures Debian supports (or pretends to support) that I had access to

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:17:34AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > - If you send too many patches for review without having CVS access, then you > >might consider assigning copyright so that you can send more patches for > >review. > > The FSF guidelines specify allow to 14 lines of *to

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Robert Millan wrote: > > Assigning copyright and being given CVS access is not necessarily related: For any substantial updates, copyright is certainly the driving issue. > - If you send too many patches for review without having CVS access, then you >might consider assi

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:04:55PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Or an even better one, just from build failures in the last few days ... > upstream placing the contents of libtool.m4 in acinclude.m4, so even > after aclocal runs the old version is still used. > > One thing about maintaini

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Oh, to the ode of creating new worms... Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:26:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Updating to any later version of Libtool is the same amount of work, whether it be the Debian-patched version or not. Most of the time, when build failures occur, the

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 21:46, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:26:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Updating to any later version of Libtool is the same amount of work, > > whether it be the Debian-patched version or not. Most of the time, when > > build failures occur, t

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:26:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Updating to any later version of Libtool is the same amount of work, > whether it be the Debian-patched version or not. Most of the time, when > build failures occur, the package upstream is using either an insanely > out of da

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:46, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:30:15AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 06:06, Robert Millan wrote: > > > It's not the Debian libtool package which is (generaly) used by upstream > > > maintainers to update their libtools.

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:30:15AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 06:06, Robert Millan wrote: > > It's not the Debian libtool package which is (generaly) used by upstream > > maintainers to update their libtools. My concern is with upstream packages > > using upstream lib

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote: > I appreciate the hard work you're doing on keeping libtool in shape on > debian. I can feel with you a little bit, as I'm hacking on kaffe's > build system, and kaffe (in theory, at least) builds on 50+ platforms, a > few of which I ocassionally get to t

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Scott James Remnant wrote: We're all VERY well aware that upstream libtool isn't portable across all Debian architectures, it doesn't work on arm at all -- and until recently didn't work on mips, mipsel or m68k either! This is precisely why Debian's libtool package contains so many additional patch

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Scott, I appreciate the hard work you're doing on keeping libtool in shape on debian. I can feel with you a little bit, as I'm hacking on kaffe's build system, and kaffe (in theory, at least) builds on 50+ platforms, a few of which I ocassionally get to test, and fix/let people fix libtool

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
(Removed debian lists from Cc, I don't see how this is relevant to the porters) On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 06:06, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:36:13AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Use the Debian libtool package, not only do I currently track CVS rather > > than use the p