Problematic use of mv(1)

2001-08-13 Thread Peter Simons
Hi, I recently upgraded to Autoconf version 2.52 and noticed the following problem on FreeBSD 4.3: | configure: creating ./config.status | config.status: creating xds.h | mv: xds.h: set owner/group (was: 10003/0): Operation not permitted | config.status: creating xds-config | mv: xds-config

Re: autoconf patch to switch manual to the GNU FDL

2001-08-13 Thread Akim Demaille
Paul> Here's a proposed patch to change the autoconf manual so that it Paul> is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Paul> License. Thanks Paul, it's been applied. Do you think you'll set up your ssh access some day? :) Maybe using Savannah would be easier for you? I just

Re: autoconf patches to add proper copyright notices

2001-08-13 Thread Akim Demaille
Paul> The biggest pain of generating this patch was coming up with the Paul> dates, i.e. which years to put into the copyright notices. I Paul> did this by inspecting the CVS history. My guess is that you wrote a tool for that. How about publishing it? I'm interested for Bison and M4 for insta

Re: Serious breakage in CVS autoconf tree on case-insensitivefilesystems

2001-08-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2. Why is autotest installed? AFAIU, this seems like a bug to me. Tim> I think this is intentional; a few people had asked for this (so Tim> they can use it for their own testsuites). Yep. Ralf, you might have missed that Autotest

Re: copyright notice on the 'INSTALL' file (proposed autoconf patch)

2001-08-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Thanks for noticing the problem. +The @file{INSTALL} file is free documentation; the Free Software +Foundation gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. There are two possibilities. If the file is big enough, it should use the GFDL. Otherwise, what you have in mind

"times" ?!

2001-08-13 Thread Patrick Welche
For some reason, the generated tests/testsuite contains times >at-times all over the place. What is "times"? I can't find it, and it isn't a /bin/sh builtin.. Cheers, Patrick

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Re: Problematic use of mv(1)

2001-08-13 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote: > What happens is that the configure script creates these files in /tmp > and mv(1)s them to the target location -- my home directory in this > case. > > In general using mv here seems to be dangerous because many older > systems do no

Re: copyright notice on the 'INSTALL' file (proposed autoconf patch)

2001-08-13 Thread Paul Eggert
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:19:19 -0600 (MDT) > From: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > +The @file{INSTALL} file is free documentation; the Free Software > +Foundation gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. > > There are two possibilities. If the file is big en

Re: "times" ?!

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Van Holder
> For some reason, the generated tests/testsuite contains > times >at-times > all over the place. What is "times"? I can't find it, and it isn't a > /bin/sh builtin.. I think it's a bash builtin which reports the elapsed time of all processes in the current shell. I'm not sure if other shell

Re: autoconf patches to add proper copyright notices

2001-08-13 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 13 Aug 2001 15:06:03 +0200 > > Paul> The biggest pain of generating this patch was coming up with the > Paul> dates, i.e. which years to put into the copyright notices. I > Paul> did this by inspecting the CVS history. > > My guess is that you w

Re: autoconf patches to add proper copyright notices

2001-08-13 Thread Kevin Ryde
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nope. I did it by hand, during the wee hours of the morning when I'm > awake but can't think well enough to code. It would be nice to have > such a tool, though. I had a bit of a go at something like that for GMP. Simple enough to start but then it

strange message from m4 when running autoheader 2.52

2001-08-13 Thread Ted Irons
On Solaris 2.8 I'm running autoconf-2.52, automake-1.4l, and libtool-1.4b, but am getting the following message when I run autoheader [196.artemis.mep] autoheader NONE:0: /swl/SunOS-5.8/bin/m4: `m4_symbols' from frozen file not found in builtin table! NONE:0: /swl/SunOS-5.8/bin/m4: `syncoutput'