Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

Bruce Korb writes: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >> Which is exactly what AC_INIT does, it sets PACKAGE_VERSION, >> PACKAGE_NAME and other such variables that should be used instead. > > Except that it cannot get propagated from there until configure time. > I've fou

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >   > Bruce, how about this?  I'd actually rather see the whole >   > version.m4 mess be removed, but this is a decent fix for now. > >   A good and proper define-in-one-place fix for version stamps is a >   really good idea.  Sticking the o

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

> Bruce, how about this? I'd actually rather see the whole > version.m4 mess be removed, but this is a decent fix for now. A good and proper define-in-one-place fix for version stamps is a really good idea. Sticking the original version string into an AC_INIT() m4 macro is _not_ a

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Bruce, how about this? I'd actually rather see the whole version.m4 > mess be removed, but this is a decent fix for now. A good and proper define-in-one-place fix for version stamps is a really good idea. Sticking the original version string into an AC_INIT() m4 macro i

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

* Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:08:58PM CET: >> configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits standards > >> Where do you get this error from? > >automake. See info Automake Gnits. > > I must be missing something u

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

> > configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits > > standards BTW, the fact that there is an `error:' missing is a bug in Automake: Or TODO item, whatever you'd like to call it.

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

* Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:08:58PM CET: >> configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits > standards > >> Where do you get this error from? > >automake. See info Automake Gnits. > > I must be missing something utterly obvious, Line w

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

> configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits standards > Where do you get this error from? automake. See info Automake Gnits. I must be missing something utterly obvious, but I cannot find it at all: ~/s $ /bin/grep -ir "follow Gnits" autoconf automake gnuli

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

* Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 05:44:40PM CET: >Without some clear marker, it is more than a little hard to find. >This is line 414 of 619 lines of typescript text: > > configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits standards > Where do you get this

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

By the way, the `latest' version (i.e. old :-) is avaiable at ... http://gnu.org/software/womb/gnits/

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

Without some clear marker, it is more than a little hard to find. This is line 414 of 619 lines of typescript text: configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits standards That is how error messages in GNU look like, and have looked like for the past 20 years. You ca

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

Hi Eric, On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Bruce Korb on 11/14/2009 11:01 AM: >> that includes 140 lines of warning messages all caused by gnulib > > We've brought that up before, but Bruno didn't like Ralf's patch to > silence the warnings in his macros.  For now

Re: Error message doesn't say, "error"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruce Korb on 11/14/2009 11:01 AM: > that includes 140 lines of warning messages all caused by gnulib We've brought that up before, but Bruno didn't like Ralf's patch to silence the warnings in his macros. For now, you'll just have to ig

Error message doesn't say, "error"

Without some clear marker, it is more than a little hard to find. This is line 414 of 619 lines of typescript text: configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits standards that includes 140 lines of warning messages all caused by gnulib macros. By the way, I didn't find this: