Re: new module for temporary files in temporary directories

2006-07-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is a particularly pessimistic interpretation of the >> standard, > > You think _I'm_ pessimistic! You should hear Nick MacLaren and Dave > Butenof. Here's a sample quote (in the threading area): > > ... t

Re: AC_HEADER_STDC

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Eggert
"Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've updated my patch (attached) to remove the two change sets you > installed. I've also added some changes to getdate.y since I missed it > the first time. Thanks, I looked over all of that except for the changes to exit.h and gettext.m4 (which Br

Re: documentation for portable use of 'volatile'

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you keep going like this, and we don't destabilize CVS Autoconf much > in the near future, it would be beneficial to release another version in > a couple of months, simply for the improved documentation :-) > (and some added bug fixes, of course).

Re: Windows fixes for sockpfaf

2006-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
Simon Josefsson extundo.com> writes: > > There is a potential problem here, if sockpfaf is ever used without > the sys_socket, but there is no such module today. Maybe the > sockpfaf.m4 file should be moved into the sys_socket module? As long as the dependency is satisfied, with gl_HEADER_SYS_

Re: new module for temporary files in temporary directories

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a particularly pessimistic interpretation of the > standard, You think _I'm_ pessimistic! You should hear Nick MacLaren and Dave Butenof. Here's a sample quote (in the threading area): ... the use of volatile accomplishes nothing but to prevent

Re: Windows fixes for sockpfaf

2006-07-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson extundo.com> writes: > >> >> This patch makes sockpfaf define HAVE_IPV? properly when >> cross-compiling to mingw32. (For reference, IPv4 is detected, but not >> IPv6.) > > And it broke compilation on cygwin, where you should use POSIX he

Re: AC_HEADER_DIRENT (was Re: [bug-gnulib] Last few obsolescent macros)

2006-07-05 Thread Derek R. Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno & bug-gnulib, sorry for the double-copy, but I realized belatedly that it may be useful to CC bug-cvs on this one: Derek R. Price wrote: > Bruno Haible wrote: >> Derek R. Price wrote: >>> Removing references to AC_HEADER_DIRENT (replacing with >

AC_HEADER_DIRENT (was Re: [bug-gnulib] Last few obsolescent macros)

2006-07-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Bruno Haible wrote: > Derek R. Price wrote: >> Removing references to AC_HEADER_DIRENT (replacing with >> AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE([dirent.h])) > > Yes. All Unix systems nowadays have , OpenVMS too. But native Woe32 > (MSVCRT, not mingw) doesn't. Thanks, Bruno. I've attached a patch that replaces a

Re: Windows fixes for sockpfaf

2006-07-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > >> $ gnulib-tool --test getaddrinfo >> ... >> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../lib -I.. -Wall -O2 - >> c ../../lib/getaddrinfo.c >> ../../lib/getaddrinfo.c: In function `getnameinfo': >> ../../lib/getaddrinfo.c:324: error:

Re: [bug-gnulib] AC_HEADER_STDC

2006-07-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Bruno Haible wrote: > Derek R. Price wrote: >> * m4/onceonly.m4, >> m4/onceonly_2_57.m4 >> Don't call obsolescent AC_HEADER_STDC. > > It's not called there, it's only used as an example. I've changed it > like this. ... Bruno Haible wrote: > Derek R. Price wrote: >> >lib/mbswi

Re: Windows fixes for sockpfaf

2006-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > $ gnulib-tool --test getaddrinfo > ... > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../lib -I.. -Wall -O2 - > c ../../lib/getaddrinfo.c > ../../lib/getaddrinfo.c: In function `getnameinfo': > ../../lib/getaddrinfo.c:324: error: `NI_NUMERICHOST' undeclared (first use in > this

Re: Windows fixes for sockpfaf

2006-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
Simon Josefsson extundo.com> writes: > > This patch makes sockpfaf define HAVE_IPV? properly when > cross-compiling to mingw32. (For reference, IPv4 is detected, but not > IPv6.) And it broke compilation on cygwin, where you should use POSIX headers instead of sucking in Windows headers and g

Re: [bug-gnulib] strndup module and crosscompiling

2006-07-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Martin Lambers wrote: > > Does this patch work? > > Yes, thanks a lot! Ok, patch committed. Bruno

Re: documentation for portable use of 'volatile'

2006-07-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:48:02AM CEST: > Following up on > , > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > > > could just include your text from these msgs pretty much as-is in > > the gnulib manual

documentation for portable use of 'volatile'

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Following up on , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > could just include your text from these msgs pretty much as-is in > the gnulib manual, where we don't attempt coherence :). OK, but this particular topic is generic to C/

Re: [bug-gnulib] version-etc output format

2006-07-05 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> $ ./src/m4 --version >> GNU M4 1.9a >> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms >> of >> the GNU General Public License