Re: What Automake are we using?

2000-09-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> Hello! What version of Automake are we using to rebuild Pavel> Makefile.in's? Pavel> It must be a modified version since the stock Automake Pavel> hardcodes "gtar" and has a bug in the "distdir" target. I use ``stock'' Automake 1

Call for help on improving the documentation

2000-09-21 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi People, We are heading slowly towards the 2.50 release. There are still many small details to fix in Autoconf, in particular the test suite which Pavel is quickly improving. I think it is reasonable to aim at 2.49b, a widely advertised beta, for the next couple of weeks. Before 2.50, it wo

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Akim Demaille writes: > > "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Russ> Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of > Russ> incoming messages be turned off? > > It should be ok by now. I liked it... :-( -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

set -o posix

2000-09-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! Could anybody please look at "man pdksh" and check whether "set -o posix" in pdksh will make any difference for Autoconf. The testsuite passes under pdksh without "set -o posix" just fine, but if Autoconf relies on some constructs that behave differently it would be nice to add a test. T

Portability of "mv -f"

2000-09-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted interactivity. Otherwise, it should be replaced with "rm -f" and "cp". Related question - how portable is "mv" across mount points, i.e. between $TMPDIR and the

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Ossama Othman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Akim Demaille writes: > > > > "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Russ> Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of > > Russ> incoming messages be turned off? > > > > It should be

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:17:18AM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: : On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: : > Akim Demaille writes: : > : > > > "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > > : > > Russ> Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the su

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:17:18AM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: | : On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: | : > Akim Demaille writes: | : > | : > > > "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | : > > | : > > Russ> Could the really annoying "feature" of

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Ossama Othman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:45:24PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > | : > I liked it... :-( > | : > | : As did I. :-( > | > | I didn't. :-/ > > Stop growing this series of replies ;) Right! :-) Out of curiosity, are you guys receiving duplicate e-mails from the list? I seem to be getting two

Meta list issue: duplicates (was: subject prefixes)

2000-09-21 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:54:59AM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: : Out of curiosity, are you guys receiving duplicate e-mails from the : list? I seem to be getting two copies of each e-mail sent from all of : the GNU lists I'm subscribed to. On the Guile user list, I've in the last couple of days

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Ben
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Akim Demaille writes: > > > > > > "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Russ> Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of > > > Russ> incoming messages be turned off? > > > >

[patch] autoconf.sh

2000-09-21 Thread Lars J. Aas
2000-09-21 Lars J. Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * autoconf.sh: Report full macro name for missing macros. Index: autoconf.sh === RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/autoconf.sh,v retrieving revision 1.89 diff -u -r1.89 autoconf.sh --- auto

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity, are you guys receiving duplicate e-mails from the > list? I seem to be getting two copies of each e-mail sent from all of > the GNU lists I'm subscribed to. > Not all. Only some. Akim's posts are being repeated. Cheers, ===

Re: Portability of "mv -f"

2000-09-21 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted interactivity. I believe that mv -f is fully portable. I think the only

Autoupdate doesn't like AC_LINK_FILES

2000-09-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I tried to run autoupdate on the following configure.in AC_INIT AC_LINK_FILES(a, b) AC_OUTPUT and it printed: /tmp/au9096/input.m4:45: /usr/bin/m4: Non-numeric argument to built-in `0@0@h' /tmp/au9096/input.m4:45: /usr/bin/m4: Cannot open [/tmp/au9096/disable.m4]: No such file or direc

Re: Portability of "mv -f"

2000-09-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT) >From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we >should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted >interactivity.

Support for non-gcc make dependency files

2000-09-21 Thread Robert Boehne
I'd like to have Autoconf generate makefile dependencies for compilers other than gcc, but I'm not familiar with the autoconf source enough to find where it is done. Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction? -- Robert Boehne Software Engineer Ricardo Software

Re: Call for help on improving the documentation

2000-09-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a pity that the Autoconf documentation gives hint about broken > functions only for functions that have their own AC_FUNC_FOO, likewise > for headers. If you know a function which should be AC_CHECK_FUNC'd or > AC_REPLACE_FUNC'd, please, submit so

Re: Portability of "mv -f"

2000-09-21 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 Sep 2000 18:10:18 -0700 > I believe that mv -f is fully portable. I think the only portable > options to mv are -f and -i. I know that cp -f definitely *isn't* portable. I forget where it misbehaved, but it was a bug report agai

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, September 21, 2000 at 09:38:19 (-0700), Ben wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes > > I third that. It made it really easy to scan my inbox and see what went where. > ;-( There are many many better ways to sort one's mail than to depend on some broken mailing

Re: Call for help on improving the documentation

2000-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , September 21, 2000 at 18:37:09 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Call for help on improving the documentation > > * SysV systems (e.g. Solaris) often don't have hstrerror. hstrerror is part of libresolv and any system which has a libresolv too old to have hstrerror will likely