Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Martin Koeppe on 9/26/2007 7:02 PM: Hi Martin, >> rather than patching error.c, I went with the option of fixing Interix's >> non-POSIX strerror instead (C99 and POSIX require strerror to always >> return non-NULL, even on failure). Per

Re: m4 tests failed

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > > Machine hardware: sun4u > > OS version: 5.10 > > Processor type: sparc > > Hardware: SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890 > > > > version of "/opt/SUNWspro/bin/../prod/bin/../../bin/cc": Sun C 5.9 > > SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-01 2007/07/12 > > test-vasprintf-posix.c:164:

Re: announce: cvs pserver (read-only) access to the git mirror

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Bob Proulx wrote: > If the old cvs access is not going to be updated then let's disable it > so that those attempting to pull the previous cvs path will get an > error instead of old data. Disabling it so that an error is reported > would be good and would have saved me a small amount of debugging

fixed file permissions

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, I removed the execute permission from these files: doc/gendocs_template lib/fflush.c m4/canonicalize-lgpl.m4 m4/fflush.m4 modules/canonicalize-lgpl modules/fflush modules/fflush-tests tests/test-base64.c tests/test-fflush.c Bruno

Re: detecting AC_REPLACE_FUNCS typos [was: underscores in gnulib file names]

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > After more testing, here's what I committed: > > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=2770108 Thanks. Looks fine. Only for the indentation, I slightly prefer this style (so that it's easier to insert new statements or swap lines or similar). 2007-09-29 Brun

Re: c99, autoconf and a couple compilers

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > I'm installing the following to autoconf (and > wonder if something similar should be done in gnulib): > > 2007-09-25 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Improve C99 detection. > * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C99): Add support for HP cc, and > avoid deprecation w

Re: getline.h

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote on 2007-08-22: > * lib/stdio_.h (getdelim, getline): Declare. Small improvement of the doc: Say that getline reads a line. "Return" not "Returns" (GNU style conventions). List the identifiers in the prototype. 2007-09-29 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/st

Re: new module 'areadlink'

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
> 2007-09-18 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/xreadlink.c (xreadlink): Simplify to a wrapper around areadlink. > * modules/xreadlink (Depends-on): Add areadlink, remove readlink etc. > * build-aux/install-reloc: Compile also areadlink.c. > * modules/relocatable-

Re: c99, autoconf and a couple compilers

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 9/29/2007 6:09 PM: > Hi Eric, > >> I'm installing the following to autoconf (and >> wonder if something similar should be done in gnulib): >> > > While certainly fine for autoconf, why should gnulib override such basic >

new gnulib admin?

2007-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, I propose to make Eric Blake an admin of the gnulib project at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib. IMO, he has the necessary skills, responsibility, and constructive attitude. I think this would be useful, because Paul and I are quite often these days operating in "handle the mail backl