Re: nproc -> LGPL

2010-12-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Glen Lenker wrote: > > Glen, do you also agree with Ludo's request? > > It is fine with me; nproc is quite libraryish. OK, I've pushed the license change. Bruno

update doc regarding Solaris 11

2010-12-04 Thread Bruno Haible
About a month ago, Solaris 11 Express was released. It's something like a beta of Solaris 11 that is scheduled to be released in 2011. It's the successor (from the Oracle side) of the OpenSolaris project; maybe we'll also have to consider Illumos / OpenIndiana in the future. I'm updating the docum

Re: return values of test programs in *.m4 macros

2010-12-04 Thread Bruno Haible
John Darrington wrote: > I'd like to extend this style to all AC_RUN_IFELSE invocations in gnulib, > ... > Autoconf and some other projects use the return code 77 to indicate that a > test > neither passed nor failed, but could not be conducted. I'm talking about programs run through A

Re: bug#7529: Bug#605639: deal better with different filesystem timestamp resolutions

2010-12-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > On 12/03/10 02:03, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Would you mind adding a "Bug fixes" entry for this >> in coreutils' NEWS file? It'd be nice to commit that >> along with an update of the gnulib submodule to the latest. > > Sure, done, with this notice: > > cp -u no longer does u

Re: return values of test programs in *.m4 macros

2010-12-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/04/2010 11:44 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Eric, Paul, Jim, > >> That sort of thing (possibly with bit masks, as you mention) >> sounds like a win to me. > > Thanks for your support. > > Eric Blake wrote: >> A bit-mask approach gives more information, >> but may be a bit harder to code, and y

Re: No justification for --no-justification (man)

2010-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:09:22PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 4 December 2010 11:07, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 08:15:23PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> Is the spacing of the --help for --no-justification a joke? It > >> backfires rather on terminals narrower than you

Re: return values of test programs in *.m4 macros

2010-12-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > If the particular > combination of failures matches 63, 77, or 99 (as commonly used by > automake and autoconf to mean version mismatch, skip, or hard fail), > then the configure script might misbehave. In the generated configure scripts, AC_RUN_IFELSE tests for an exit code equal to 0