Re: autoconf-2.67 - make check failure on AIX V8BETA - 2 failures

2010-08-01 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello Ralf, On 01.08.2010 18:58, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Rainer, > > * Rainer Tammer wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 05:09:01PM CEST: >> this are the failures of autoconf 2.67 make check on AIX V7BETA: >> >> 213: AC_CACHE_CHECK FAILED (base.at:478) >> 240: Signal handling F

Re: characters allowed in --enable-*/--with-*

2010-08-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:00:21AM CEST: > Autoconf 2.66 added '+' to the set of allowed characters in --enable-* > > Why? So gnulib could have --enable-c++. > So, my question is: could standards.texi document the set of allowed > characters? > > Can you make a pr

Re: characters allowed in --enable-*/--with-*

2010-08-01 Thread Karl Berry
Autoconf 2.66 added '+' to the set of allowed characters in --enable-* Why? So, my question is: could standards.texi document the set of allowed characters? Can you make a proposal? Current Autoconf has -+. mapped to _ and otherwise wants characters eligible for shell variab

Re: autoconf-2.67 - make check failure on AIX V8BETA - 2 failures

2010-08-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Rainer, * Rainer Tammer wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 05:09:01PM CEST: > this are the failures of autoconf 2.67 make check on AIX V7BETA: > > 213: AC_CACHE_CHECK FAILED (base.at:478) > 240: Signal handling FAILED (torture.at:1263) > > I have included the testsuite.log for

autoconf-2.67 - make check failure on AIX V8BETA - 2 failures

2010-08-01 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello, this are the failures of autoconf 2.67 make check on AIX V7BETA: 213: AC_CACHE_CHECK FAILED (base.at:478) 240: Signal handling FAILED (torture.at:1263) I have included the testsuite.log for a detailed reference. Are this known problem? Bye Rainer testsuite.log.

characters allowed in --enable-*/--with-*

2010-08-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello bug-standards readers, Autoconf 2.66 added '+' to the set of allowed characters in --enable-* and --with-* switches (mapping them to underscores for the variable name that they influence). Using these can cause problems in trees with older configures, or ones not made by Autoconf that are n