On 14/03/2020 01:03, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/13/20 3:42 PM, Ross Burton wrote:
Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man?
Yes, it should.
Can someone else verify that this is working? For me a tarball built
from git master refuses to build without help2man installed.
Ross
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:49 PM Bruno Haible wrote:
>> but when something goes
> > wrong, the poor schmuck who has to debug it wants to know that it was
> > the test for `ceil` (for instance) that hung the build, not the
> > unrelated thing that happens to have been tested right before that.
>
>
Attached bug fix patches for your consideration with changes as small as
possible:
- AS_IF: cope with blank false branch.
- _AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU: make cached result available to calling macro.
Thanks,
J.
0001-_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU-bug-fix-for-cases-when-result-.patch
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2020, Zack Weinberg wrote:
All of the worst autoconf-related bugs I've had to deal with in the
past decade or so, showed up in CI environments that I did _not_ have
interactive access to. I only got the transcript of the build. I had
to specifically add code to dump the contents
On 3/14/20 2:36 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
On 14/03/2020 01:03, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/13/20 3:42 PM, Ross Burton wrote:
Should autoconf build from tarball without help2man?
Yes, it should.
Can someone else verify that this is working?
I said that it *should* work, not that it *does* work. I
