Re: How to find out which modules have brought in a particular module

2016-01-14 Thread Matt Rice
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 19/10/15 21:21, Gavin Smith wrote: > > I'm interested in reducing the number of checks done in a configure > > script: one way could be to make more use of conditional dependencies > > between modules. gnulib-tool --add-import lists the m

Re: hunting dependencies

2011-03-25 Thread Matt Rice
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > I think, on the contrary, it would be essential to show all paths, > otherwise the user does work to cut a dependency and then afterwards notices > that there are other paths to the particular dependency that are much > harder to cut. so, my

Re: hunting dependencies

2011-03-23 Thread Matt Rice
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Matt Rice wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Simon Josefsson wrote: >>> I didn't know why a >>> certain module was pulled in, and it wasn't immediately clear from the >>> modules I reque

Re: hunting dependencies

2011-03-23 Thread Matt Rice
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> I didn't know why a >> certain module was pulled in, and it wasn't immediately clear from the >> modules I requested.  A different way to resolve this problem could be >> with a 'gnulib-tool --why strdup' command that

Re: [PATCH] doc: update users.txt

2011-03-23 Thread Matt Rice
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > If someone feels like adding more name/url pairs, there are > probably at least as many projects in the following pages: I did not feel like it, but here is one I know of that is not on the list. users.diff Description: Binary data

Re: module libposix

2010-09-21 Thread Matt Rice
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Matt Rice wrote: >>> There is an approved way, but it is really obtuse: >>>  $(\cd ./$(git rev-parse --show-cdup) && pwd -P) >>> Far from the first thing that

Re: module libposix

2010-09-21 Thread Matt Rice
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: >> of determining whether you are >> running from within a git repository, and there is no such command >> as 'git root'. > > Sorry.  BitKeeper had it and the method for accomplishing it was > too complicated, so I added an alias and forgot I'd d

add distdir target to gnu coding standards?

2010-09-13 Thread Matt Rice
I noticed that autotools when running 'make dist' rely on subdirs implementing a distdir target which wasn't documented in the gnu coding standards, before making an attempt at documenting it I figured i'd ask if it is something that should be added?

Re: author names in .c files

2010-09-13 Thread Matt Rice
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Ralf just pointed this out to me: > http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#territoriality > > For an example of something that looks like territoriality, notice how many > tests/test-*.c files are attached to my name: > > $ git grep 'Eric

Re: New module nproc

2009-03-27 Thread Matt Rice
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> As far as mingw is concerned, I was hoping that someone else could >> help with this (I don't have a Windows machine). How easy would it be >> to get the nproc module to work under Windows? > > That's a fine approach. > Our first priority sh