Re: Automake and whitespace in pwd

2008-11-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jim, > > * Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:59:36AM CET: >> >> I think it's a fine idea to disallow bogus (and potentially dangerous) >> absolute names in automake's sanity.m4, but the existing code is not >> sufficient. > > Agreed. >

Re: Automake and whitespace in pwd

2008-11-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 10:55 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > On one hand, I like the idea of accommodating the rare srcdir `pwd` that > contains white space. Pardon, but white spaces in arbitrary directories are fairly common on Windows ("My Files", "Meine Dateien" etc.) rsp. to users who migrate thei

gettimeofday does not link with g++

2008-11-27 Thread Sam Steingold
The error I get is: g++ -W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-nonliteral -Wno-invalid-offsetof -falign-functions=4 -g -DDEBUG_OS_ERROR -DDEBUG_SPVW -DDEBUG_BYTECODE -DSAFETY=3 -DDEBUG_GCSAFETY -DUNICODE -DDYNAMIC_FFI -I. gllib/uniwidth/wid

Re: Automake and whitespace in pwd

2008-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:55:38AM CET: > > On one hand, I like the idea of accommodating the rare srcdir `pwd` that > contains white space. As Ralf alreay noted, it is not that rare with w32 users. > On the other hand, since so many Makefile.am files > are unprepar

Re: [Patch] Add dirent.d_type support to Cygwin 1.7 ?

2008-11-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [dropping cygwin-patches, since posts are closed to non-subscribers, and adding bug-findutils and bug-gnulib. Christian is working on a patch that lets cygwin do initial support of dirent.d_type] According to Christian Franke on 11/27/2008 2:41 PM: >

Re: gettimeofday does not link with g++

2008-11-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Sam Steingold wrote: > /home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-gxx-g/../src/time.d:75: undefined reference > to `rpl_gettimeofday(timeval*, void*)' > time.o: In function `C_sleep()': > /home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-gxx-g/../src/time.d:503: undefined > reference to `rpl_gettimeofday(timeval*, void*