Hello Willem, John,
* John Calcote wrote on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 06:55:58PM CEST:
>
[ ./config.status --file=../outside-of-build-tree ]
>
> In the resulting top-level Makefile, $(srcdir) is "./", the
> functional inverse of which is the same (the "identity" value, if
> you will). The "src" direct
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According to Bruno Haible on 5/23/2009 6:35 AM:
> Hi Eric, Ralf,
>
> For about 15 years, writing and debugging autoconf macros has been very hard
> for me. I've come to partially understand how m4 internally works, thanks to
> Eric's new documentation
Hi Eric,
> > --
> > m4_syscmd([cat 1>&2 <<\EOT
> >
> > Here comes the definition of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE:]
> > m4_defn([AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE])
> > [EOT])
> > --
>
> Very similar
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According to Bruno Haible on 7/25/2009 8:40 AM:
>> +$ @kbd{cat <<\EOF > foo.m4}
>> +m4_init
>> +m4_errprintn([try one: m4_dquote is ]m4_defn([m4_dquote]))
>> +m4_divert([0])dnl
>> +m4_errprintn([try two: m4_dquote is ]m4_defn([m4_dquote]))dnl
>> +m4_dq
Hi Eric,
> Git did not like your patch - I could not apply it with either 'git am' or
> 'git apply'
Patches that I send should be applied with "patch -p0". git probably did
not like my patch because it was a context diff. I send context diffs or
unified diffs, depending on which of the two is mor
Eric Blake wrote:
> Using diversions is not a technique. Rather, it is an additional reason
> (beyond postprocessing) why outputting to anything except stderr or
> separate files is problematic, because diversions can be discarded or
> rearranged
Yes, that's why I moved this example to be the las
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According to Robert Millan on 7/24/2009 12:36 PM:
> This patch makes it possible to use autotest on MingW32/Wine, where
> DOS carriage returns are printed, breaking the testsuite (for the
> record, problem was found with GNU cpio's testsuite).
Not all
