Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?

2011-08-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
By the way, I note that the return value of chown is ignored where no other return value is; is this an oversight, or is it really the case that this is the one operation whose failure can be overlooked?

Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?

2011-08-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 24 July 2011 21:05, Reuben Thomas wrote: > I just came across the copy-file module, which does exactly what I > want (it is even geared to making backup files), but (unfortunately > for use in an interactive program) exits on error. Just to move this along a bit, I attach a patch which changes

Re: relocatable-prog : relocatable symbol not found

2011-08-01 Thread Sylvain Beucler
Hi, I'd like some input about this issue. I don't understand how gnulib-tool generates the Makefile. In this case relocatable.c is added to EXTRA_libgnu_a_SOURCES but not libgnu_a_SOURCES :/ (btw, now could be a good time to add FreeDink to 'users.txt' :)) - Sylvain On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:1

Re: REPLACE_TOWLOWER='1'

2011-08-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Sam, > >> why is tolower replaced on linux? > ... > ac_cv_have_decl_towlower=yes > > REPLACE_TOWLOWER='1' Oops. that was a mistake yesterday. Thanks for having spotted it! Fixed as follows. 2011-08-01 Bruno Haible wctype-h: Fix last change. * m4/wctype_h.m4 (gl_WCTYPE_H

Re: REPLACE_TOWLOWER='1'

2011-08-01 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Eric Blake [2011-08-01 09:00:07 -0600]: > On 08/01/2011 08:56 AM, Sam Steingold wrote: >> why is tolower replaced on linux? > > Did you mean towlower rather than tolower? towlower, sorry > What does config.log say? configure:29272: checking whether towlower is declared configure:29272: gcc

Re: top_srcdir in Makefile.am & Makefile.in

2011-08-01 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Bruno Haible [2011-07-30 02:20:08 +0200]: > > Sam Steingold wrote: >> clisp directory structure is: >> clisp - top level; hand-written configure script (ask Bruno) >> clisp/src - most sources, configure.in, configure, aclocal.m4 >> clisp/src/gllib, clisp/src/glm4 - imported from gnulib >> clis

Re: REPLACE_TOWLOWER='1'

2011-08-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/01/2011 08:56 AM, Sam Steingold wrote: > why is tolower replaced on linux? Did you mean towlower rather than tolower? What does config.log say? Without knowing why the configure test failed, it's hard to say if you might have stumbled over a bug in the wctype_h.m4 file. -- Eric Blake eb

REPLACE_TOWLOWER='1'

2011-08-01 Thread Sam Steingold
why is tolower replaced on linux? -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.6 (Final) X 11.0.60900031 http://iris.org.il http://palestinefacts.org http://honestreporting.com http://thereligionofpeace.com http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ Why use Windows, when there are D

Re: [PATCH]

2011-08-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Iain Nicol wrote: > Gnulib's file contains copy-pastable usage > instructions. It seems to me that these instructions are missing a > line. As a result, for example, ``make distcheck'' in a clone of GNU > Patch's repo fails with the following: > > echo 2.6.1.143-5862 > ../.version-t && mv ../.ve