Re: Problems with gnits standard and git-version-gen

2014-02-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
For NTP, we have a kinda hard to describe but easy to read mechanism. For development versions (odd-number minor releases) each new "issue" gets a bumped "point number" (major.minor.point). If that issue is a release candidate it gets a "-RC" suffix. For stable versions (even-number minor releas

Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

2011-09-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
Bruno wrote: > Cross-compiling means that the generated executable can not be run on > the build machine. Is that different from executables generated on the build machine cannot be run on the host machine? H

Re: portability of 'printf' command

2010-04-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
Karl wrote: > I fully recognize that people are still running Solaris 7 (and probably > older versions) on mission-critical and other systems. But, how many of > those systems are (a) installing brand-new GNU packages (which > presumably wouldn't be happening on mission-critical systems) *and* >