Re: On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST: > I am using Automake's simple test driver. Are you using parallel-tests or not? Any setting for the variables TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, LOG_COMPILER? > I have three programs > that, due to a buggy program transformation,

On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-21 Thread Roberto Bagnara
I am using Automake's simple test driver. I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation, keep allocating stack space until they segfault: $ ulimit -s 8192 $ ./bug23 Segmentation fault $ ./bug24 Segmentation fault $ ./bug31 Segmentation fault However: $ make check ... XPASS

Re: wikipedia

2010-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Apologies for the slightly off-topic message, but the German > wikipedia entry for autotools contains a number of inaccuracies > and bias against it. FWIW, this is true also for the English wikipedia entry for autoconf (but *not* for the automa

Re: make clean is slow

2010-08-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: So long ago already ... Slow but sure ... For some of the OSs the time is about the same if the directory is already cleaned, while for others (e.g. OS-X) the time improves considerably if the directory is already clean. Here's a first patch I'm

Re: make clean is slow

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
So long ago already ... * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:26:14PM CEST: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>Is there a way to make this quite a lot faster? > > > >The LTLIBRARIES bits: yes, noted. The PROGRAMS bits should be > >reasonably fast already, only forking

wikipedia

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Apologies for the slightly off-topic message, but the German wikipedia entry for autotools contains a number of inaccuracies and bias against it. I consider myself biased so I won't edit it, but would be delighted to see someone setting things straight, trying to avoid bias. If you have questions