Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-07-03 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2024-07-01 10:21, Zack Weinberg wrote: > # clue Make that gen-foo also updated foo.h whenever foo.c is new > foo.h: foo.c > @: > > If I had to guess, I would guess that someone thought Make would be > more likely to skip invoking a shell if the command was actually empty > rather than "

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-07-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024, at 4:28 PM, Karl Berry wrote: ... > introspection/%.h: introspection/%.c > $() ... > As an aside, I'm curious as to why the $() is used. It seems > a mysterious way to do nothing. Do you know? I don't know why someone chose to do it this way, but I do know that GCC's Ma

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-07-01 Thread Frederic Berat
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:28 PM Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Frederic, > > Hello, > NetworkManager: > Use of uninitialized value $var in string eq at > /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Variable.pm line 754, line > 1169. > > From the Makefile.am you sent me separately (attached here for

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-06-30 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Frederic, NetworkManager: Use of uninitialized value $var in string eq at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Variable.pm line 754, line 1169. >From the Makefile.am you sent me separately (attached here for the record), it seems that is coming from the use of $() in: introspection/

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-06-25 Thread Karl Berry
I ran a mass rebuild on Fedora for packages that depend on automake with this version. Thank you!! Out of 1330 packages built, I found the following failures. Could be a lot worse! NetworkManager x2gokdrive xorg-x11-server Use of uninitialized value $var in string e

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-06-25 Thread Frederic Berat
Hello, I ran a mass rebuild on Fedora for packages that depend on automake with this version. Out of 1330 packages built, I found the following failures. NetworkManager: Use of uninitialized value $var in string eq at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Variable.pm line 754, line 1169. x2gokdrive

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-06-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, > > I created a Gnulib testdir (of all of Gnulib) with automake-1.16.92, > > and built that on various platforms (from Alpine Linux to MSVC) [1]. > > Everything OK; all tests passed. > > > > Obviously this tests only a small part of the Automake functionality, > > namely the part of "just

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-06-22 Thread Jim Meyering
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024, 16:46 Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > > We're particularly interested in bugs or regressions in the actual > > Automake functionality. > > I created a Gnulib testdir (of all of Gnulib) with automake-1.16.92, > and built that on various platforms (from Alpine Linu

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-06-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > We're particularly interested in bugs or regressions in the actual > Automake functionality. I created a Gnulib testdir (of all of Gnulib) with automake-1.16.92, and built that on various platforms (from Alpine Linux to MSVC) [1]. Everything OK; all tests passed. Obviously t