Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:14:33AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I would find it more elegant to install all the files separately and > > have a defined ordering between them > > It may work for you. For the general developer, I think it opens too > many pitfalls (missing -I

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Colin Watson wrote: > I would find it more elegant to install all the files separately and > have a defined ordering between them It may work for you. For the general developer, I think it opens too many pitfalls (missing -I options, confusion about which file is used, possibly empty directories a

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Maybe the solution is to expand automake's list of valid serial lines. > True, it won't help until after the next Automake release, but if there > are enough files in the wild that use '# file.m4 serial n', it seems like > we should make it a valid format rather than forcing all

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:24:07PM CET: > According to Colin Watson on 3/16/2009 8:04 AM: > > Beyond the gettext compatibility issue, there are many files in gnulib > > that have serial lines in a format not recognised by aclocal that have > > nothing to do with gettext.

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-automake] According to Colin Watson on 3/16/2009 8:04 AM: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Hello Colin, >> >>> I'm using both gettext and gnulib. In order to avoid confusing file >>> conflicts, I tell gett

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hello Colin, > > > I'm using both gettext and gnulib. In order to avoid confusing file > > conflicts, I tell gettext to install into m4/ and gnulib to install into > > gnulib/m4/, and rely on aclocal's documented serial number handlin

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Colin, > I'm using both gettext and gnulib. In order to avoid confusing file > conflicts, I tell gettext to install into m4/ and gnulib to install into > gnulib/m4/, and rely on aclocal's documented serial number handling to > sort it out. I use '-I m4 -I gnulib/m4' in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS since

Re: bug in join: case comparisons don't work in multibyte locales

2009-03-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible writes: > James Youngman wrote: >> My first reaction was, why isn't libunistring===glibc > > glibc means to implement POSIX and be the interface to the system calls. > The general guideline nowadays among glibc maintainers is "no new API" > (unless it's a new system call). IIRC, when

Re: interix 3.5 select bug

2009-03-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible writes: > Here is a series of two proposed patches to provide a workaround. > Simon, is that OK to commit? I am back from vacation now. Yes, that looks fine, but I haven't tested it. Thanks for working on it. It will get tested by me eventually, after the next --import run. /Sim

Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
I've been running into problems trying to update man-db to current gnulib, of the following form: configure.ac:335: warning: gl_ARGP was called before gl_LOCK_EARLY_BODY m4/lock.m4:29: gl_LOCK_EARLY_BODY is expanded from... m4/lock.m4:22: gl_LOCK_EARLY is expanded from... m4/lock.m4:253: g