Re: Fix archiver @FILE support test

2010-08-31 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-31 18:57 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > * Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:54:28PM CEST: >> Den 2010-08-31 18:49 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: >>> AC_TRY_EVAL already redirects stderr in config.log, and that was quite >>> helpful when debugging the macro recently. Why not, instead of yo

Re: Fix archiver @FILE support test

2010-08-31 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:54:28PM CEST: > Den 2010-08-31 18:49 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > > AC_TRY_EVAL already redirects stderr in config.log, and that was quite > > helpful when debugging the macro recently. Why not, instead of your > > patch, redirect stdout also >&AS_MESSAGE

Re: Fix archiver @FILE support test

2010-08-31 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-31 18:49 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > Hi Peter, > > * Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:44:00PM CEST: >> Microsoft lib prints a failure message though. I assume other >> archivers are not unlikely to also do so... >> >> Pushing the attached as obvious. > > AC_TRY_EVAL already r

Re: Fix archiver @FILE support test

2010-08-31 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:44:00PM CEST: > Microsoft lib prints a failure message though. I assume other > archivers are not unlikely to also do so... > > Pushing the attached as obvious. AC_TRY_EVAL already redirects stderr in config.log, and that was quite helpful

Re: Fix archiver @FILE support test

2010-08-31 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-29 07:54 skrev Peter Rosin: > Den 2010-08-28 12:24 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: >> Peter, can you check whether ar-lib, lib, and 'link -lib' reliably fail >> when an @file contains a nonexistent file name? > > I haven't run the testsuite, but manual testing shows that the patch > should be o

Re: Fix archiver @FILE support test

2010-08-28 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-28 12:24 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > Peter, can you check whether ar-lib, lib, and 'link -lib' reliably fail > when an @file contains a nonexistent file name? I haven't run the testsuite, but manual testing shows that the patch should be ok. If the testsuite reveals unexpected problems I'

Fix archiver @FILE support test

2010-08-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Yay for IRIX ar handing back a useless exit status: configure:6118: checking for archiver @FILE support configure:6135: cc -c -g conftest.c >&5 configure:6135: $? = 0 configure:6138: ar cru libconftest.a @conftest.lst ar: Error: @conftest.lst cannot open configure:6141: $? = 0 configure:6152: res