Re: relocatable-perl module

2014-01-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Reuben Thomas writes: > The attached patch adds a module relocatable-perl that does for Perl > scripts what relocatable-script does for shell scripts. It looks to me like it's successfully in the same spirit as the shell implementation. I didn't review the Perl code in detail for correctness.

Re: Relocatable Perl scripts

2014-01-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Reuben Thomas writes: > On 22 November 2013 00:24, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > On 21 November 2013 23:50, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > I just realised that I never had this working properly, and I track the > problem all the way back to the gnulib manual. In the line: >   > >

Re: Relocatable Perl scripts

2014-01-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Reuben Thomas writes: > I just realised that I never had this working properly, and I track the > problem all the way back to the gnulib manual. In the line: >   > >     echo "$gettext_dir/" \ > > should that not rather be "@gettext_dir@"? If not, then where does gettext_dir > get its value?

Re: bug#16380: Failing tests on Solaris in 2.16

2014-01-07 Thread Paul Eggert
And Jim pointed out a bug in that patch, so I pushed the following further patch into grep (with the init.sh part pushed to gnulib). From 79b186f715b3a7a4622a3b90aa30b0c62de0549a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:47:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tests: port Solaris

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

2014-01-07 Thread Jim Meyering
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On Jan 2, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> One of our tenets relating to developer-related tools/rules like this >> is that we do not accommodate inferior tools when it comes to building >> from git-cloned sources (by co

Re: bug#16380: Failing tests on Solaris in 2.16

2014-01-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 01/07/2014 11:37 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Please be sure to propagate your > init.sh change back to the master version in gnulib/tests. Yeowch! Thanks, I'd forgotten we'd stolen that from gnulib. I pushed the following patch into gnulib. --- ChangeLog | 8 tests/init.sh | 1 +