Re: [PATCH] lib/malloca.c, lib/md5.c, lib/sha1.c: don't include unless HAVE_CONFIG_H is defined

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Bruno, > gnulib-tool offers you a way to adapt the Gnulib source to your wishes: > If you store a file lib/md5.c.diff in a subdirectory 'gnulib-local' of > your package and pass the option --local-dir=gnulib-local to the gnulib-tool > invocation, gnulib-tool will apply this diff when pullin

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Johan van Selst
Eric Blake wrote: > Johan, can you find the portion in config.log that shows whether the > native posix_spawn was deemed acceptable or buggy? It looks acceptable: checking for posix_spawn... yes checking whether posix_spawn works... yes checking whether posix_spawn is declared without a macro.

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-01 Thread Karl Berry
What I mean - I wouldn't mind commiting gnulib stuff to VCS, but only if I can omit files generated by autoreconf. FWIW, that is exactly what I do for Texinfo. It helps my contributors to not spend time dealing with gnulib, and it helps me because it avoids gnulib-skew differences between

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > It would be nice it gnulib-tool could do it, but I have a hard time > thinking how that would actually be implemented. There are so many > different ways you may want to organize your gnulib directories that > having gnulib-tool support them all is probabl

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Steingold writes: > On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> >> On my debian system, > > how about the poor souls stuck with non-kosher fedora? :-) You are in the same boat as I compared to those gNewSense users. ;-) >> Further, these functions seems rather independent of other >> system-re

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > On my debian system, how about the poor souls stuck with non-kosher fedora? :-) > Further, these functions seems rather independent of other > system-replacing functionality, so couldn't you put them in a separate > "global" directory and let all your su

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Steingold writes: >> systems. Did you try to measure the bloat size? Which modules with >> object code do you need in every sub-module? > > here is what I pass with --avoid: > > no-c++ stdint stdbool havelib gettext localcharset > uniwidth/width streq uniname/uniname unitypes link-follow

Re: [PATCH] lib/malloca.c, lib/md5.c, lib/sha1.c: don't include unless HAVE_CONFIG_H is defined

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Peter Simons wrote: > I completely agree that Gnulib shouldn't try to support > non-config.h builds in general. It's not worth the effort, really. Yet, > at the same time it would feel like prudent software engineering if > Gnulib would avoid creating unnecessary obstacles for those projects > that

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-gnulib] According to Johan van Selst on 3/1/2010 2:55 PM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Johan van Selst on 3/1/2010 11:02 AM: >>> Sure, it's now up on http://mud.stack.nl/~johans/193-ktrace.txt >>> (output from the test in checks/193.esyscmd) >> Actually, it looks like you posted

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > I tend to prefer ease of maintenance over optimizing code size for > non-modern and/or non-GNU systems. The amount of system-replacing > gnulib object code pulled in shouldn't be too large even on older GNU I have seen regexp replaced on the then current

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Steingold writes: > On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Sam Steingold writes: >> > as I said above, I do have a separate configure.in, gllib, glm4 in >> > each module. >> >> I am confused. If they are separate, how could the gnulib generated >> files conflict with each other? > > I use

Re: gnulib without autoconf?

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Ben Walton asked: > I'm wondering whether its feasible to use gnulib in a project that > doesn't use autoconf/automake? I'm adding this clarification to the documentation: 2010-03-01 Bruno Haible * doc/gnulib-tool.texi (Initial import): Clarify the requirements regarding

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Sam Steingold writes: > > as I said above, I do have a separate configure.in, gllib, glm4 in > > each module. > > I am confused. If they are separate, how could the gnulib generated > files conflict with each other? I use "gnulib-tool --avoid" to put the c

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Steingold writes: > On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> >> >> > Since I use gnulib in several sub-modules, I need to avoid >> conflicts >> >> >> > between different gnulib imports. >> >> >> > thus I need to make all those _GL_* constants module-specific. >> >> >> > thus I need

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Sam Steingold
On 3/1/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> >> > Since I use gnulib in several sub-modules, I need to avoid > conflicts > >> >> > between different gnulib imports. > >> >> > thus I need to make all those _GL_* constants module-specific. > >> >> > thus I need gnulib-tool to accept a --macro

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Steingold writes: > On 2/27/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> >> > Since I use gnulib in several sub-modules, I need to avoid conflicts >> >> > between different gnulib imports. >> >> > thus I need to make all those _GL_* constants module-specific. >> >> > thus I need gnulib-tool to acce

Re: gnulib-tool feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Sam Steingold
On 2/27/10, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> > Since I use gnulib in several sub-modules, I need to avoid conflicts > >> > between different gnulib imports. > >> > thus I need to make all those _GL_* constants module-specific. > >> > thus I need gnulib-tool to accept a --macro-prefix option and

Re: gnu-web-doc-update and versioned manuals

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > Having just released m4-1.4.14, I noticed that gnu-web-doc-update is > currently hardcoded to put the updated manual directly in $pkg/manual. > But it seems like it might be nicer to support versioned manuals: both m4 > and autoconf copy the new manual into $pkg/manual/$pkg-$ver

gnu-web-doc-update and versioned manuals

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
Having just released m4-1.4.14, I noticed that gnu-web-doc-update is currently hardcoded to put the updated manual directly in $pkg/manual. But it seems like it might be nicer to support versioned manuals: both m4 and autoconf copy the new manual into $pkg/manual/$pkg-$ver, then update $pkg/manual/

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-01 Thread Matěj Týč
On 23 February 2010 00:34, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hello Matěj, > > (how do you pronounce your name? like Matyesh?) This one is quite difficult for English speaking people :-) I have found this one on the web and it is quite accurate: Approx English pronunciation for Matej: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AA