aclocal.test failure

2004-11-13 Thread Patrick Welche
On a recent NetBSD/i386 system with today's cvs autoconf/automake: === Running test ./aclocal.test + pwd /usr/src/local/automake/tests/testSubDir + set -e + aclocal-1.9a -Werror --output=fred + test -f fred + aclocal-1.9a -Werror --unknown-option + grep help stderr aclocal: Try `/usr/src/local/aut

Re: aclocal.test failure

2004-11-13 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Welche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Patrick> I actually wonder, why is it using the old (well, 13 Oct) installed Patrick> /usr/local/bin/aclocal-1.9a rather than the new aclocal created Patrick> in /usr/src/local/automake ? I don't know: the test suite displays $

Re: AM_WITH_REGEX macro

2004-11-13 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "John" == John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] John> retrofit a check for '--with-regex' into an old version John> of diff. From what I have read this check is enabled by John> the use of regex.m4 by including AM_WITH_REGEX into John> configure.in. Would anything else be requir

Re: Case insensitive file system, ChangeLog and CHANGELOG

2004-11-13 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Hi Peter, Sorry for the delay, I just noticed your mail today. >>> "Peter" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Peter> I can "fix" the problem with the attached patch, but a) Peter> I suck at perl b) I am not sure that it is worth fixing Peter> and c) there is probably a "better

bug-automake address (was: aclocal.test failure)

2004-11-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Please do direct bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], a spurious > failure of CVS Automake is noise for [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no mention of bug-automake on the web page. http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ Could one be added? Here is a proposed patch against

Re: Case insensitive file system, ChangeLog and CHANGELOG

2004-11-13 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Hi Peter, Hi Alexandre, d) the patch is more than 15 lines and you haven't signed copyright papers for Automake. Would you do that? Haha, done, I'll redo the patch and send it again when the paperwork is finalized. Thanks, Peter -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.co