Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I'd say that old, limited, non-standard formats are likely to be less tested than current ones, thus they are more likely to have problems with new tools. Why would you say that? Are you saying that the millions of tar files already out there have

Re: Question about automatic generation of GPLv3 COPYING file

I will discuss the issue with the Automake maintainer. I have never used Automake myself, so I don't know the issues. One fact I can see is that this is just a matter of defaults, and doesn't stop users from doing whatever they want. Please don't exaggerate. Making Automake have different defau

Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

On 2008-09-17 22:45:15 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: > > Shouldn't tar-ustar be the default instead of tar-v7? > > I'm not an expert on tar implementations and their issues, > and what would be a good default nowadays. > > Help?

Re: Issue with static linking?

Hello Micheal, * Micheal Smith wrote on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:23:57PM CEST: > I'm not sure if this is more of a libtool issue, or an automake > issue. Probably neither. > I have some code that relies on libresolv to do mx lookups. > This code uses functions within that library that are no

Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: >> >> The automake manual (several versions) says about the tar-v7 option: >> >> `tar-v7' selects the old V7 tar format. This is the historical >> default. This antiquated f

Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

[ ] Hello Vincent, all, Thanks for the report. * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: > > The automake manual (several versions) says about the tar-v7 option: > > `tar-v7' selects the old V7 tar for

Re: Question about automatic generation of GPLv3 COPYING file

Ralf: However, just populating the file with an arbitrary license seems an error-prone way to enforce the standard. It's not arbitrary. Actually, until the switch to GPLv3, I cannot remember anyone complaining about this feature of Automake. I don't think anybody ever complained that automa