Re: snprintf function portability

2001-08-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Thanks for the suggestion. How about the following patch Paul> instead? I tried to tighten up the wording a bit. Please, install! And don't hesitate putting more of your knowledge into that section :)

RFI: Trailing blanks

2001-08-17 Thread Akim Demaille
I'd like some ideas/opinions on the matter of multiple empty lines, and trailing blanks. In the case of Autoconf, neither matter, so they are smashed. When moving the GNU M4 test suite to Autotest, I first had to let autom4te pass multiple empty lines, since some of the expected results produce

Re: RFI: Trailing blanks

2001-08-17 Thread Raja R Harinath
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like some ideas/opinions on the matter of multiple empty lines, and > trailing blanks. > > In the case of Autoconf, neither matter, so they are smashed. > > When moving the GNU M4 test suite to Autotest, I first had to let > autom4te pass multiple e

Re: RFI: Trailing blanks

2001-08-17 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence) > > Currently I see two means to have them: introduce quadrigraphs for > space and tab, or/and introduce a quadrigraph marking the eol, but > which is to be removed in the actua

Re: RFI: Trailing blanks

2001-08-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> An EOL quadrigraph sounds better to me for this particular Paul> problem. Good, that's also the solution Raja likes most. Paul> But surely it wouldn't merely be an EOL quadrigraph: it would be Paul> a quadrigraph standing for the emp

Re: "times" ?!

2001-08-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> BTW, what ``sort'' of Belgian are you? Wallon, Flamand? I'm from Tim> I'm Flemish, I'm afraid. Why else would I want to Tim> de-francophonise things? ;-P :) :) :) >> Lille, and sometimes go and see my parents up there. We might be

Re: snprintf function portability

2001-08-17 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 17 Aug 2001 11:51:53 +1000 > > No worries about rewording, but perhaps the point that sparc64 solaris > 7 doesn't truncate the output at all could be retained... OK. I installed the following patch, which also fixed a couple of other minor glitches

Re: RFI: Trailing blanks

2001-08-17 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Friday 17 August 2001 4:49 pm, Akim Demaille wrote: > Typically, one can observe that the Autotest snippet contain useless > multiple empty lines, which are to be killed, while those in the test > values have to be kept. > > So I would like to remove that --normalize, completely replaced with >

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

2001-08-17 Thread Richard Stallman
PS to autoconf: I finally got remote CVS working from my home machine to the autoconf repository at subversions (or is it savannah?), which means I no longer need to bother other autoconf maintainers to install minor changes like this one. That is good.

Linking C and Fortran code: problems with Compaq compilers

2001-08-17 Thread Steven G. Johnson
When linking a program that contains both C and Fortran source files, automake uses the Fortran linker. This causes some difficulty with the Compaq compilers ('fort' and 'ccc') for Alpha (Linux). Consider: int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Hello world.\n"); return 0; } If we