[PATCH] maint.mk: new rule: refresh-gnulib-patches

2012-07-27 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, First, here's a patch to maint.mk. To give you an idea of what this does, I've included the induced patch for coreutils below. >From 8394dc6b446e745b430f880dd08fb664379cdbe0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:12:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: new rul

Re: mpsort without

2012-07-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Denis Excoffier wrote: > >> > Is it conceivable that in mpsort.c, the line > >> > > >> > #include > >> > > >> > is (officially) replaced by the three lines > >> > > >> > #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H > >> > # include > >> > #endif > >> > > >> > for those people (like me...) that don't work with but p

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Jim Meyering ha escrit: >> (BTW, the second sentence seems incorrect: >> I saw no makefile rule for "ChangeLog" in tar.) > > It is in Make.rules, which is imported from Paxutils. Thanks for the info. This particular working directory had an old cvs-based paxutils/ dire

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Eggert
On 07/27/2012 01:20 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > How about just not writing the boilerplate text > to ChangeLog when that file already exists? Thanks, I installed that in your name.

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Jim Meyering ha escrit: > (BTW, the second sentence seems incorrect: > I saw no makefile rule for "ChangeLog" in tar.) It is in Make.rules, which is imported from Paxutils. Regards, Sergey

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > On 07/26/2012 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> can we always count on the vc-dwim boilerplate to >> be the same to automatically prune it from gitlog-to-changelog? > > Probably not, but we can keep a catalog of all of them, > surely, assuming this problem persists indefinitely, >

Re: mpsort without

2012-07-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 05:21:58PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/26/2012 04:48 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Is it conceivable that in mpsort.c, the line >> > >> > #include >> > >> > is (officially) replaced by the three lines >> > >> > #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H >> > # includ