Re: Call for help on improving the documentation

2000-09-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ On , September 21, 2000 at 18:37:09 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: ] >> * 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 have many ma

Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-22 Thread Lars Hecking
> > 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 list manager corrupting subject headers. Indeed. Check out the Subject lines of eg. http://sources.

RE: Support for non-gcc make dependency files

2000-09-22 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Boehne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Support for non-gcc make dependency files > > > I'd like to have Autoconf generate makefile > dependencies for compilers other than gcc, > b

RE: Meta list issue: subject prefixes

2000-09-22 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:46 PM > To: Ossama Othman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Meta list issue: subject prefixes > > > --- Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, are you g

Re: Call for help on improving the documentation

2000-09-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , September 22, 2000 at 00:19:29 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Call for help on improving the documentation > > A lot of applications don't really care, though, provided gethostbyname > works reasonably well. The other problem is that you don't want to link > with libresolv u

Dependency files not from stdout

2000-09-22 Thread Robert Boehne
I am trying to add support for dependency files that are not sent to standard out. IBM's xl* compilers create dependency information in a file "*.u" with the -M option. The output looks much like what SGI compilers produce. Since it is not sent to stdout, the file would have to be copied to $tm

Re: Portability of "mv -f"

2000-09-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:25:47PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT) >From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >how portable is "mv" across mount points, i.e. between >$TMPDIR and the current directory? Will "mv -f" help? > > I do not thi