Re: writability of directories in distributions

2009-11-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: The other issue, as I recall, has to do with whether or not 'root' is doing the unpacking. Remember that 'root' is going away on many systems which are now using roles' (or temporary powers) instead. At whatever pace, this won't be widespread enough to

Re: --gnits, AC_INIT and VERSION

2009-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 22:10 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Robert, and sorry for not replying on this earlier: Hi - no problems ;). > * Robert Collins wrote on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:03:42AM CEST: > > There was discussion about getting version numbers from VCS recently; > > I've done a sl

Re: --gnits, AC_INIT and VERSION

2009-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Robert, and sorry for not replying on this earlier: * Robert Collins wrote on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:03:42AM CEST: > There was discussion about getting version numbers from VCS recently; > I've done a slightly different thing for a while now: > AC_DEFUN([SUBUNIT_MAJOR_VERSION], [0]) > AC_DE

Re: writability of directories in distributions

2009-11-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Harlan Stenn wrote: >> I just saw a patch go by about changing the perms on directories in >> distribution tarballs. >> >> I'm a fan of 775 myself (ok, I really prefer 2775). >> >> But I can see that some would prefer 777, and others would prefer 755. >

Re: writability of directories in distributions

2009-11-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Harlan Stenn wrote: > I just saw a patch go by about changing the perms on directories in > distribution tarballs. > > I'm a fan of 775 myself (ok, I really prefer 2775). > > But I can see that some would prefer 777, and others would prefer 755. > > The other issue, as I recall, has to do with whet

Re: automake cross compile on Linux

2009-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ken, * Ken Perl wrote on Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:11:11AM CET: > I may configure; make successfully on Linux, but when I tried to build > it for win32 crossly on Linux, I have trouble, see below steps, > > ./configure --build i686-pc-linux-gnu --host i586-mingw32msvc > make > i586-mingw32msvc-g

Re: writability of directories in distributions

2009-11-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Harlan Stenn wrote: I just saw a patch go by about changing the perms on directories in distribution tarballs. I'm a fan of 775 myself (ok, I really prefer 2775). But I can see that some would prefer 777, and others would prefer 755. The other issue, as I recall, has to d

Re: automake cross compile on Linux

2009-11-29 Thread Alberto Luaces
Ken, I got no errors following your example: make all-am make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/home/alberto/testAutotools/ming' i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -O2 -MT hello.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hello.Tpo -c -o hello.o hello.c mv -f .deps/hello.Tpo .deps/hello.Po i586-mingw32msvc-gc