Re: new module 'isfinite'

2007-10-24 Thread Fred J. Tydeman
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:03:12 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> Personally I agree with you that it's more convenient when isfinite >> does not raise an exception. But the bottom line is that portable >> code can't assume that isfinite(sNaN) will return 0 without raising an >> exception. >> > >I guess

Re: new module 'isfinite'

2007-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding the austin group] According to Paul Eggert on 10/24/2007 4:16 PM: * Is it acceptable for isfinite to raise an exception on a signaling NaN? >>> Yes. >> I disagree. We know what the relevant standards say: [1] >> [1]

Re: new module 'isfinite'

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Ben, > > Paul Eggert wrote: >> > * Is it acceptable for isfinite to raise an exception on >> > a signaling NaN? >> >> Yes. > > I disagree. We know what the relevant standards say: [1] > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuli

Re: clisp/utils/unicode & gnulib

2007-10-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Sam Steingold wrote: > diff -u gnulib/tests/uniname/UnicodeDataNames.txt > clisp/current/utils/unicode/UnicodeDataFull.txt | wc >5887 24682 319494 > which file is correct? The one in gnulib is more recent. > are you going to move clisp/current/utils/unicode/ to gnulib completely? The gen

Re: updated Gnulib web page to use latest GNU boilerplate

2007-10-24 Thread Karl Berry
_Currently_? Bruno, I agree with you that there's no reason not to list, on the web page, all and only the active contributors, instead of the official maintainers. I changed the list on the web page. Simon, Eric -- if you would like to be dubbed official maintainers of gnulib, let me kno

Re: updated Gnulib web page to use latest GNU boilerplate

2007-10-24 Thread Karl Berry
He also said he'd update the maintain.texi file at some point, but I don't see anything at http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html, I guess "some point" hasn't arrived yet :). I'll try to do it soon. I'd also like to see it at http://www.gnu.org/server/fsf-html-style-sheet

Tru64 4.0D declares round* but does not define them

2007-10-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, On Tru64 4.0D, /usr/include.dtk/math.h declares round, roundf and roundl, but I can't find a library that defines them. Same thing for roundf and roundl and respective tests. This causes link failures for the test-round* tests: | source='../../dummy-0/gltests/test-round1.c' object='test-

bootstrap sync from coreutils

2007-10-24 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, ChangeLog | 10 ++ build-aux/bootstrap | 19 +++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 3ed561c..177b87b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2007-10-24 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: required file `build-aux/compile' not found

2007-10-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Sam Steingold wrote on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:35:21PM CEST: > 1. should I always invoke automake with --add-missing? No, once is sufficient. > 2. will automake notice that it has a newer version of something for > build-aux and tell me or do I need to check that myself every once in a > while?

Re: updated Gnulib web page to use latest GNU boilerplate

2007-10-24 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: According to Paul Eggert on 10/24/2007 1:22 AM: > > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Rather than inlining this text, shouldn't you have used the magic: > > > > > > > > > > Most likely, yes. But where's the source

Re: required file `build-aux/compile' not found

2007-10-24 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Sam Steingold wrote on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:08:49PM CEST: >> I just did >> >> gnulib-tool --import --source-base=src/gllib \ >> --m4-base=src/glm4 --aux-dir=src/build-aux --no-changelog \ >> stdint stdbool

clisp/utils/unicode & gnulib

2007-10-24 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno, diff -u gnulib/tests/uniname/UnicodeDataNames.txt clisp/current/utils/unicode/UnicodeDataFull.txt | wc 5887 24682 319494 which file is correct? are you going to move clisp/current/utils/unicode/ to gnulib completely? Thanks Sam. -BEGIN

Re: required file `build-aux/compile' not found

2007-10-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Sam, * Sam Steingold wrote on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:08:49PM CEST: > > I just did > > gnulib-tool --import --source-base=src/gllib \ > --m4-base=src/glm4 --aux-dir=src/build-aux --no-changelog \ > stdint stdbool regex fnmatch-gnu havelib gettext localcharset \ > uniwidth/width streq

required file `build-aux/compile' not found

2007-10-24 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just did gnulib-tool --import --source-base=src/gllib \ --m4-base=src/glm4 --aux-dir=src/build-aux --no-changelog \ stdint stdbool regex fnmatch-gnu havelib gettext localcharset \ uniwidth/width streq uniname/uniname unitypes cd src; automake g

Re: Git public repository naming convention

2007-10-24 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Benoit SIGOURE wrote: [CC: Git-ML] On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Index: gnulib.html === RCS file: /web/gnulib/gnulib/gn

Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

2007-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Clytie Siddall on 10/24/2007 2:37 AM: > > 2. > > #: lib/gai_strerror.c:52 > msgid "Servname not supported for ai_socktype" > > "Servname" is ambiguous: "Service name" or "Server name"? You may well > get inaccurate translations. Simon?

Re: new module 'isfinite'

2007-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 10/24/2007 4:51 AM: > Hi Ben, > > Paul Eggert wrote: >>> * Is it acceptable for isfinite to raise an exception on >>> a signaling NaN? >> Yes. > > I disagree. We know what the relevant standards say: [1]

Re: gnulib maintainers

2007-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 10/24/2007 4:29 AM: > > But since here it's about the web pages, i.e. the public's notion of > maintainers, not about RMS's notion of "maintainers", I'm in favour of > changing the web pages to reflect the maintainers by c

Re: updated Gnulib web page to use latest GNU boilerplate

2007-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 10/24/2007 1:22 AM: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Rather than inlining this text, shouldn't you have used the magic: >> >> > > Most likely, yes. But where's the source to the boilerplate that > includes t

Re: AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT and AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT

2007-10-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > #if ! (-2147483648LL < 0) > > ... > > #if ! (-9223372036854775807LL < 0) > > If a compiler can't handle that sort of line, then its bugs are more > serious, since it's relatively common to do preprocessor checks > like "#if LLONG

Re: new module 'isfinite'

2007-10-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ben, Paul Eggert wrote: > > * Is it acceptable for isfinite to raise an exception on > > a signaling NaN? > > Yes. I disagree. We know what the relevant standards say: [1] Also there is the issue with numbers outside the IEEE spec: [2] Since this is a classification function

Re: gnulib maintainers

2007-10-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > >> + Gnulib is currently being maintained by > > > _Currently_? Counting the number of people who have contributed more than > > 10 ChangeLog entries > > As I understand it the "Maintainers" entry is for the official > maintainers, which is sometimes distinct from the people

Re: updated Gnulib web page to use latest GNU boilerplate

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rather than inlining this text, shouldn't you have used the magic: > > Most likely, yes. But where's the source to the boilerplate that includes this magic? I used http://www.gnu.org/boilerplate.html, which has the magic already expanded. I couldn't fi

Git public repository naming convention (was: Re: users.txt patch)

2007-10-24 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
[CC: Git-ML] On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Index: gnulib.html === RCS file: /web/gnulib/gnulib/gnulib.html,v retrieving

Re: users.txt patch

2007-10-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general, if you control the server repo, > you can simply add a symlink in project.git: > > .git -> .. I meant this: .git -> .

Re: updated Gnulib web page to use latest GNU boilerplate

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> + Gnulib is currently being maintained by > _Currently_? Counting the number of people who have contributed more than > 10 ChangeLog entries As I understand it the "Maintainers" entry is for the official maintainers, which is sometimes distinct from th

Re: AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT and AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #if ! (-2147483648LL < 0) > ... > #if ! (-9223372036854775807LL < 0) If a compiler can't handle that sort of line, then its bugs are more serious, since it's relatively common to do preprocessor checks like "#if LLONG_MIN < LONG_MIN". How about this ide

Re: users.txt patch

2007-10-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > >> Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Because the CVS mirror at cvs.sv.gnu.org is no longer maintained: >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-09/msg00137.html >> >> To help imp

Re: users.txt patch

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git >> +git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib >> >> > > Is there any reason why this has changed? It was to match what was in the README file for gnulib. > I learned (the hard way) that for bare pu

Re: new module 'isfinite'

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Is it acceptable for isfinite to raise an exception on > a signaling NaN? Yes. > * Is it acceptable to #include in and put > inline functions in math.in.h? Yes, to both. Of course 'inline' needs to be configured. B