Re: getopt configure check fails in linux

2010-09-06 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
On 09/06/2010 11:30 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Lorenzo, checking for working GNU getopt function... no it looks kind of strange that getopt test fails under GNU Linux... (indeed, this way, the gnulib version of getopt is used, instead of GNU libc version) If you want to know why: The fixes

Re: getopt configure check fails in linux

2010-09-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Lorenzo, > checking for working GNU getopt function... no > > it looks kind of strange that getopt test fails under GNU Linux... > > (indeed, this way, the gnulib version of getopt is used, instead of GNU > libc version) If you want to know why: The fixes that each gnulib module brings are

Re: getopt configure check fails in linux

2010-09-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > (indeed, this way, the gnulib version of getopt is used, instead of GNU libc > version) Is this related to the getopt bug I reported earlier? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

getopt configure check fails in linux

2010-09-06 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I've just updated gnulib and updated my modules (strdup and getopt) and I see that now configure says in Linux checking getopt.h usability... yes checking getopt.h presence... yes checking for getopt.h... yes checking for stddef.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checki

[RFC] Make build and install dirs used by distcheck configurable. (was: Re: absolute build directory with spaces)

2010-09-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 05 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello, > > * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:28:58PM CEST: > > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > > What about instead making the names of the temporaries > > > source/build/install directories used by "make distcheck" > > > configurabl

Re: Fwd: Automagic dependency on selinux

2010-09-06 Thread Johan Hattne
On 08/29/10 14:39, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Thanks for testing. > >> However, HAVE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H *is* defined in config.h. >> >> That is due to the use of >> gl_CHECK_NEXT_HEADERS([selinux/selinux.h]) in selinux-selinux.m4, >> which ends up invoking AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE([selinux/sel

Re: git log -> changelog

2010-09-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
[[sorry for the thread hijack]] On 6 Sep 2010, at 03:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:23:57PM CEST: >> The git pages are clear that S-O-B has project-dependent >> interpretation. Coreutils currently doesn't even use it (the only >> people with commit priv

Re: git log -> changelog

2010-09-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On 6 Sep 2010, at 12:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:20:30AM CEST: >>> On 6 Sep 2010, at 03:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries which explicitly do not hav

Re: git log -> changelog

2010-09-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 6 Sep 2010, at 12:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:20:30AM CEST: >> On 6 Sep 2010, at 03:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries >>> which explicitly do not have that particular meaning. :