surprising behavior of gettext module

2011-04-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
The gettext module says in its configure.ac section that it invokes AM_GNU_GETTEXT: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.1]) This would ordinarily lead one to believe that it is not necessary to invoke AM_GNU_GETTEXT elsewhere in configure.ac, but gnul

[PATCH] strchrnul: work around cygwin bug

2011-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
A misplaced * means that cygwin 1.7.9 dereferences NULL rather than returning the location of the trailing NUL byte. * doc/glibc-functions/strchrnul.texi (strchrnul): Document bug. * m4/strchrnul.m4 (gl_FUNC_STRCHRNUL): Detect it. * m4/string_h.m4 (gl_HEADER_STRING_H_DEFAULTS): New witness. * modu

Re: non-blocking I/O tests

2011-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/10/2011 08:12 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I was a bit suspicious whether non-blocking I/O on Woe32 sockets really work. > So I set out to write a unit test for it. Sockets are a bit more complicated > than pipes, so I started with the pipes. > > Find attached this unit test - for

Re: Failed builds for gzip/grep/rcs with latest gnulib revisions

2011-04-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, > --- a/modules/stdio > +++ b/modules/stdio > @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ A GNU-like . > >  Files: >  lib/stdio.in.h > +lib/stdio-write.c >  m4/stdio_h.m4 > >  Depends-on: That would have fixed the problem. But people would start wondering why gnulib-tool adds a file to their package that is not co

Re: Failed builds for gzip/grep/rcs with latest gnulib revisions

2011-04-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Rob, > since 2 days we are experiencing some errors in builds of some GNU packages > (like gzip, grep, rcs). These packages are built continuously with the > latest gnulib revision. > An example can be found here: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1043400 (log > available at http://hydra.nixos.org/b

Re: Failed builds for gzip/grep/rcs with latest gnulib revisions

2011-04-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Rob Vermaas wrote: > since 2 days we are experiencing some errors in builds of some GNU packages > (like gzip, grep, rcs). These packages are built continuously with the latest > gnulib revision. > An example can be found here: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1043400 (log > available at http://hydra.n

Failed builds for gzip/grep/rcs with latest gnulib revisions

2011-04-15 Thread Rob Vermaas
Hi, since 2 days we are experiencing some errors in builds of some GNU packages (like gzip, grep, rcs). These packages are built continuously with the latest gnulib revision. An example can be found here: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1043400 (log available at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1043400/l