Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>> for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all >>> the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnu

Re: Fix for compiling m4 on VAX

2013-10-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake wrote: > This change needs to be incorporated upstream in gnulib (cc'd); from > there it will find its way into the next m4 release. What compiler is being used, and what macros does this compiler predefine? More generally: Why is the change needed? What happens, exactly, if you don'

Re: Fix for compiling m4 on VAX

2013-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/29/2013 07:29 PM, John Klos wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to request that this tiny patch be fixed so that m4 will > compile on NetBSD VAXen: Wow - people still use VAX? > > --- lib/isnan.c.orig2013-09-22 06:15:20.0 + > +++ lib/isnan.c > @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ FUNC (DOUBLE x)

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all >> the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4 >> gpgv). > > You say that as if there were a

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all > the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4 > gpgv). You say that as if there were a problem with the maint.mk rule. The rule relies on the existence of

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> However, isn't this based on the premise that shallow clones are >> somehow useful? > > Sure. Why copy 8000 changesets when you know for sure that you only > care about the last 100 or s

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > However, isn't this based on the premise that shallow clones are > somehow useful? Sure. Why copy 8000 changesets when you know for sure that you only care about the last 100 or so at the most? > Did you try the recommended procedure

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] maint: update to latest gnulib

2013-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-gnulib] On 10/29/2013 11:15 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:50:20PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> Since we haven't quite frozen yet, it's time to pick up some >> fixes. I know at least cygwin benefits from this update. >> >> * .gnulib: Update to latest, in part