Re: bug#17981: [PATCH] maint.mk: less syntax-check noise when SIGPIPE is ignored

2020-08-31 Thread Paul Eggert
On 7/11/14 2:12 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Yes, that's the basic idea.  Sorry I did not explain it clearly enough. Please feel free to forward this on to the Austin group. Later Austin group commentary suggested that this issue is no reason

Re: pid_t on 64-bit Windows

2020-08-31 Thread Martin Oberzalek
Hi Bruno, > Your email is hardly readable, because I'm sorry for that. I hope it is fixed now. > > _spawnvp(), or _wspawnvp() are not returning a pid. It is a process handle. > > No one claimed that _spawnvp() is returning a pid. What I wan't to point out is that in gnulib on WIN32 API pid_t i

Re: Gnulib in non-Autotools projects with --create-testdir

2020-08-31 Thread Bruno Haible
John Scott wrote: > gllib/unistd.h:621:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first." > 621 | #error "Please include config.h first." > | ^ > > I'm not using Autotools for my project, so I don't get why I should include > config.h. This is explained in

Re: pid_t on 64-bit Windows

2020-08-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Martin, Your email is hardly readable, because 1. it is a HTML email, 2. when viewing it as plain text - which is the only secure way to read mail [1] - the cited text is not indented. Please configure your mailer for plain-text mail [2], if you want to continue to write to mailing lis

Re: Gnulib in non-Autotools projects with --create-testdir

2020-08-31 Thread John Scott
On Sunday, August 30, 2020 6:54:08 AM EDT Bruno Haible wrote: > This indicates that you have been generating the sys/utsname.h on a machine > that has /usr/include/sys/utsname.h (e.g. not mingw) and are now trying to > use it on mingw. You're right, I was doing something weirdly, probably forgetti

Re: pid_t on 64-bit Windows

2020-08-31 Thread Oberzalek Martin
Hi, Am Montag, den 24.08.2020, 01:30 +0200 schrieb Bruno Haible: On 64-bit Windows, pid_t needs to be 64-bit large, i.e. intptr_t or 'long long'or '__int64'. This is because the return type of _spawnv* (when invoked with _P_NOWAIT) and the argument of the _cwait function are 'intptr_t' (se

Re: pid_t on 64-bit Windows

2020-08-31 Thread Oberzalek Martin
Hi, Am Montag, den 24.08.2020, 01:30 +0200 schrieb Bruno Haible: On 64-bit Windows, pid_t needs to be 64-bit large, i.e. intptr_t or 'long long'or '__int64'. This is because the return type of _spawnv* (when invoked with _P_NOWAIT) and the argument of the _cwait function are 'intptr_t' (se

Re: Test suite failure for gettext's gnulib on ARMv7HL

2020-08-31 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Friday, August 7, 2020 9:18:31 PM CEST Bruno Haible wrote: > [Dropping bug-gettext from CC] > > Kamil Dudka wrote: > > > One of these lines must modify its contents. The question is: where? > > > > > > msg4 = strerror (1729576); > > > > I believe it is this ^^^ line. > > Could it be rela