Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-21 Thread pluto--- via Discussion list for the autoconf build system
Zack Weinberg wrote: > - A linter for configure.ac and third-party macro libraries. > This wouldn't be any fun to write, because it would have to parse > both M4 and shell, *accurately*, but it would be valuable to every > user of autoconf. Fortunately, free versions of both parsers alread

NFS file locking (was: Re: Automake's file locking (was Re: Autoconf/Automake is not using version from AC_INIT))

2021-01-28 Thread pluto--- via Discussion list for the autoconf build system
Zack Weinberg wrote: > ... > grumpy aside in OpenBSD's "fcntl(2)" manpage: > > | This interface follows the completely stupid semantics of System V > | and IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 ("POSIX.1") that require ... > > As I recall, at the time, *neither* flock nor fcntl locks > were honored *at all* over N

Re: Is it safe to use ax_gcc_builtin to detect __builtin_offsetof?

2024-02-25 Thread pluto--- via Discussion list for the autoconf build system
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 2:09???AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Is it safe to use ax_gcc_builtin to detect __builtin_offsetof? > Cancel. We can't use AX_GCC_BUILTIN in production. Using > AX_GCC_BUILTIN produces broken configure's: > ... > ./configure: line 15023: syntax error

Re: AC_FUNC_MMAP test fails on AIX for MAP_FIXED: who's at fault?

2024-07-31 Thread pluto--- via Discussion list for the autoconf build system
"Yury V. Zaytsev" wrote: > ... > bash-5.1$ gcc mmap-full.c > bash-5.1$ export XPG_SUS_ENV=ON > bash-5.1$ ./a.out > bash-5.1$ echo $? > 0 > bash-5.1$ unset XPG_SUS_ENV > bash-5.1$ ./a.out > bash-5.1$ echo $? > 10 > > ... all controlled by a variable at runtime > ... nothing one can do at