Re: announce: cvs pserver (read-only) access to the git mirror

2007-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: > I've set up for cvs pserver (read-only) access to the git mirror > of gnulib's cvs repository. This is in preparation for discontinuing > the CVS repository in favor of the git one for upstream commits. > > To check out the latest, use this: > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: licence text as string?

2007-09-27 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:59:09AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi, John Darrington wrote: > Would it be possible to add a feature to the gpl-[23].0 modules which > provides the text of the GPL as a const char * ? > > This would be useful for user interfaces which

Re: m4 tests failed

2007-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please keep replies on the list, so that others can pitch in. According to Piotr Tarnowski on 9/27/2007 7:11 AM: > Eric Blake napisaB(a): >> Hi Piotr, and thanks for the report. Can you please rerun with 'make -k >> check' to ensure the rest of the t

Re: licence text as string?

2007-09-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, John Darrington wrote: > Would it be possible to add a feature to the gpl-[23].0 modules which > provides the text of the GPL as a const char * ? > > This would be useful for user interfaces which need to display the > licence text Why not reading the file at runtime? It's as simple as this:

Re: m4 tests failed

2007-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Piotr Tarnowski on 9/27/2007 2:26 AM: Hi Piotr, and thanks for the report. Can you please rerun with 'make -k check' to ensure the rest of the testsuite is okay? > Machine hardware: sun4u > OS version: 5.10 > Processor type:

Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

2007-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Martin Koeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > And yes, I'll of course try a new coreutils/gnulib version (but I > think in this case I shouldn't yet). Are there any coreutils snapshot > .tar.gz available? Yes. I made a new snapshot just a few hours ago, too: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6

Re: stdint C99 compat checks in m4/stdint.m4 break when wchar_t is unsigned int

2007-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Riku Voipio on 9/26/2007 3:56 PM: > After some intensive hair pulling on why libidn breaks arm eabi port, > turns out libidn did not like gnulib telling it that stdint.h is not > C99 compatible... Any why not? > > int check_WCHAR:

canonicalize: fix recently reported readlink bug

2007-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
I've just done the following to gnulib: 2007-09-27 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> canonicalize: Avoid a false-positive cycle failure. * modules/canonicalize (Depends-on): Add file-set and hash-triple. Sort. Remove cycle-check. * lib/canonicalize.c: Include fil

stdint C99 compat checks in m4/stdint.m4 break when wchar_t is unsigned int

2007-09-27 Thread Riku Voipio
After some intensive hair pulling on why libidn breaks arm eabi port, turns out libidn did not like gnulib telling it that stdint.h is not C99 compatible... Any why not? int check_WCHAR: WCHAR_MIN == TYPE_MINIMUM (wchar_t) && WCHAR_MAX == TYPE_MAXIMUM (wchar_t) ? 1 : -1