bug#7379: On the fix for CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*'

2010-11-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Ralf, Scroll down for my comments. On 11/13/10 03:00, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [ Thanks Glenn for rerouting the bug report! ] > > Hi Behdad, > >> From: Behdad Esfahbod >> Subject: On the fix for CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*' >&g

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Behdad, > > unfortunately I'm still not fully through. I hate to send replies in > bits, but it's also bad if the delay is unnecessarily long. So here > we go with more bits: Thanks Ralf. > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008

Re: aclocal flags are a pain

2008-09-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:11:15AM CEST: >> Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >>> Reading autoreconf source right now. I may just switch to it if my testers >>> tell me it works on OS X and msys. >> Ok, I see the following th

Re: aclocal flags are a pain

2008-09-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Reading autoreconf source right now. I may just switch to it if my testers > tell me it works on OS X and msys. Ok, I see the following things that I like to be able to do but autoreconf does not do currently: * Many autogen.sh scripts I've seen try each

Re: MAINTAINERCLEANFILES for autotools

2008-09-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Behdad, Hi again, Thanks for the quick replies as always, Ralf. > Thanks for the report. > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:57:20PM CEST: >> * automake should generate rules to add Makefile.in to >> MAINTAINERCLEANF

Re: aclocal flags are a pain

2008-09-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello again, > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:40:41AM CEST: >> To use an m4/ dir one has to modify three places: >> >> * autogen.sh: add "-I m4" to their aclocal invocation (ok, I know >> autoreco