Re: Bug#478310: autoscan: suppress warning about AC_PROG_RANLIB if AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is present?

2010-08-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ben, * Ben Pfaff wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:38:45PM CEST: > One possible solution would be for autoscan to notice > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and then suppress a warning about AC_PROG_RANLIB. > Is that a good solution? Yes. > If so, then I will see what it takes to implement it. Thanks; unfortun

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

2010-08-02 Thread Karl Berry
So gnulib could have --enable-c++. I guess I missed some discussion on bug-gnulib. Overall, "cplusplus" seems like it would have been simpler/more customary. (That ++ causes endless hassle everywhere.) Easier to remember option names? Dunno. I'd say the opposite: allowing lots of "ran

autoscan: suppress warning about AC_PROG_RANLIB if AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is present?

2010-08-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
[Please retain CC in followups. Thank you.] In April 2008, Jack Bates reported that autoscan recommends adding AC_PROG_RANLIB to configure.ac, but that libtoolize subsequently complains about AC_PROG_RANLIB as "obsolete". The AC_PROG_RANLIB macro is not really obsolete from an Autoconf point of

Re: AT_BANNER() with empty argument

2010-08-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:07:41PM CEST: > On 08/02/2010 01:18 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > group to run, its output will include a banner containing > > @var{test-category-name} prior to any tests run from that category. The > > banner should be no more than abou

Re: AT_BANNER() with empty argument

2010-08-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/02/2010 01:18 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (-??-??) [?] > > > +** AT_BANNER() with empty argument will cause visual separation from previous > + test cagegory. > + > * Major changes in Autoconf 2.67 (2010-07-21) [stable] s/cagegory/category/ -

Re: AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS: quoting bug on Solaris with gfortran

2010-08-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello everybody. Now that the regressions of autoconf 2.66 and the problems with the release procedure of autoconf 2.67 seem solved, I'd like to ping this bug report, which was probably overlooked due to the cropping up of those (much more serious) issues. Regards, Stefano

GNU Autoconf 2.67 released [stable]

2010-08-02 Thread Eric Blake
The GNU Autoconf team is pleased to announce the stable release of Autoconf 2.67. Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without man

Re: AT_BANNER() with empty argument

2010-08-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 06:31:54PM CEST: > Quick question: we document > > -- Macro: AT_BANNER (TEST-CATEGORY-NAME) > This macro identifies the start of a category of related test > groups. When the resulting `testsuite' is invoked with more than > one test