Eric Blake wrote:
> Since forking external programs matters most on cygwin and mingw ...
Also on AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, Solaris, one can avoid spawning 'cat':
by using the 'print -r' trick from libtool.m4.
2007-06-23 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* gnulib-tool (echo): Add a speed
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I think printf is portable nowadays, at least to the platforms that
> gnulib-tool is likely to run on.
Indeed, 'printf' is useful to use when we find that it is a shell built-in,
namely on bash >= 2.0. (See the patch in the other mail.) But other than that?
'printf' is portab
Eric Blake wrote:
> POSIX requires that echo interpret backslash sequences.
POSIX:2001 Technical Corrigendum 1 [1] mentions that BSD echo is POSIX
compliant.
Eric Blake and Paul Eggert wrote:
> POSIX even admits this, and recommends the use of printf instead.
> ...
> One advantage of using printf
On 23 Jun 2007, at 06:25, Eric Blake wrote:
If you reconfigured autoconf after installing a newer GNU m4, and
autoconf
did not find the right m4, then that is a bug in autoconf, and
should be
dealt with there.
Right. Since it was experienced by the developers on the Bug-Bison
list, I hop
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:48 +0200, Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 22 Jun 2007, at 14:27, Fernando Ferreira wrote:
>
> >> Autoconf requires the latest m4, but it actually calls gm4 it
> >> seems. So I installed the latest M4, which ended up in /usr/local/
> >> bin/m4 on my system, and added a soft link
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> libtool.m4 also tries other workarounds: searching for an 'echo' program
> in $PATH:/usr/ucb (but how is this better than 'cat'?) or using a built-in
> 'print -r' command (which shells except ksh have this?) or using 'printf'
> (is that portable nowadays?
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> POSIX requires that echo interpret backslash sequences.
Actually, POSIX says that the behavior of 'echo' is
implementation-defined if any of the arguments contain backslash, or
if echo's first operand is -n.
If the implementation supports the XSI extensio
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Adding bug-autoconf, this thread started here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-06/msg00176.html
Other lists can be trimmed in replies.
According to Hans Aberg on 6/22/2007 7:37 AM:
> On 22 Jun 2007, at 14:55, according to Eric Blake
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According to Bruno Haible on 6/22/2007 8:30 PM:
> It is generally impossible to write reliable shell-scripts using 'echo',
> when this 'echo' commands interprets backslahes. I'm not inclined to check
> or rewrite the 500 echo commands in gnulib-tool. I
Hello,
Fernando Ferreira wrote:
> I found out that gnulib-tools,
> invoked by bootstrap to generate the gnulib-comp.m4 file, had a little
> but vital bug that inserted these extraneous characters instead of the
> desired behavior. The faulty lines are these, lines 2170 to 2180 on
> gnulib/gnul
Hello Eric, Fernando,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 03:04:06PM CEST:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 6/22/2007 6:47 AM:
> > Thank you for the nice and complete bug report and analysis. Please try
> > this patch. OK to install?
[...]
> Go ahead and commit.
* Fernando Ferreira wrot
On 22 Jun 2007, at 14:55, according to Eric Blake:
According to Hans Aberg on 6/22/2007 6:13 AM:
Autoconf requires the latest m4, but it actually calls gm4 it
seems. So
I installed the latest M4, which ended up in /usr/local/bin/m4 on my
system, and added a soft link
/usr/local/bin/gm4 -> /
On 22 Jun 2007, at 14:27, Fernando Ferreira wrote:
Autoconf requires the latest m4, but it actually calls gm4 it
seems. So I installed the latest M4, which ended up in /usr/local/
bin/m4 on my system, and added a soft link
/usr/local/bin/gm4 -> /usr/local/bin/m4
Then it worked.
Well, I sa
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello Fernando,
* Fernando Ferreira wrote on Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:42:25PM CEST:
[...]
# You need to invoke gt_JAVACOMP yourself, possibly with arguments.
AC_CONFIG_FILES( :build-aux/ )
# You need to invoke gt_JAVAEXEC yourself, possibly with arguments.
AC_CONFIG
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 6/22/2007 6:47 AM:
> Thank you for the nice and complete bug report and analysis. Please try
> this patch. OK to install?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
> * gnulib-tool (func_add_or_update, func_create_testdir): Do not
>
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According to Hans Aberg on 6/22/2007 6:13 AM:
> Autoconf requires the latest m4, but it actually calls gm4 it seems. So
> I installed the latest M4, which ended up in /usr/local/bin/m4 on my
> system, and added a soft link
> /usr/local/bin/gm4 -> /us
Hello Fernando,
* Fernando Ferreira wrote on Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:42:25PM CEST:
[...]
> # You need to invoke gt_JAVACOMP yourself, possibly with arguments.
> AC_CONFIG_FILES( :build-aux/ )
> # You need to invoke gt_JAVAEXEC yourself, possibly with arguments.
> AC_CONFIG_FILES( :build-aux/ )
On 22 Jun 2007, at 13:42, Fernando Ferreira wrote:
Greetings, fellow developers!
I'm trying to compile bison from CVS, but it keeps failing at
bootstrap phase. Here is what I'm doing:
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/bison co bison
cd bison/
./bootstrap
And here is the er
Hans Aberg wrote:
On 22 Jun 2007, at 13:42, Fernando Ferreira wrote:
Greetings, fellow developers!
I'm trying to compile bison from CVS, but it keeps failing at
bootstrap phase. Here is what I'm doing:
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/bison co bison
cd bison/
./bootstrap
Greetings, fellow developers!
I'm trying to compile bison from CVS, but it keeps failing at bootstrap
phase. Here is what I'm doing:
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/bison co bison
cd bison/
./bootstrap
And here is the error message it is giving me in the (abrupt) end of the
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