Re: make -q and maintainer-makefile issues?

Paul, > What's the downside to the patch to build-aux/po/Makefile.in.in? > If it's stylistic Yes, it's only stylistic, but with major impact. I wouldn't want to kill all phony targets from all Makefiles, just for "make -q". Let's hear what Paul Smith can say about it... Bruno -- In memoriam Max

Re: errno --> errno name ?

Hi Bruce, > This time the tarball includes a module file of sorts. Good, this is what gnulib needs. > Makefile.am: > GEN_ERRNO_FILES = err-names.c err-names.h > BUILT_SOURCES += $(GEN_ERRNO_FILES) > MOSTLYCLEANFILES += $(GEN_ERRNO_FILES) > nodist_include_HEADERS += err-nam

Re: canonicalize_file_name should support win32 shortcuts

Sam Steingold wrote: > > The feature request is a bit odd, because it mixes the notion of > > "native Windows" and Cygwin. Cygwin is a platform that runs inside Windows. > > When you build mingw programs, and redistribute them, they are meant to > > run in a native Windows environment, in which no

Re: errno --> errno name ?

On 08/14/11 03:35, Bruno Haible wrote: Does the .h file need to be generated? It is much more convenient to rely on a .h file that is platform independent. The formatting string depends upon the maximum errno name length. If one can presume 16, then there's no need It seems to be 15 on Lin

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: obey --no-git.

Paul Eggert wrote: > On 08/13/2011 03:17 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Jim, Eric, Paul, you are the maintainers of 'bootstrap'. Any objection >> against James' patch [1]? > > No, it looks OK to me; please apply. If we run into problems > we can fix them later. I agree. Sorry the patch languished for

Re: make -q and maintainer-makefile issues?

On 08/14/2011 03:19 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > I wouldn't want to kill all > phony targets from all Makefiles, just for "make -q". Sorry, I see that I wasn't clear earlier. Not all phony targets have the problem. For example, the following works fine: .PHONY: all all: foo foo: /etc/motd

Re: freebsd 8.2 test failure: test-file-has-acl.sh

Jim Meyering wrote in : > I built the very latest > coreutils/gnulib on a FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE system. All tests passed > except this one from gnulib: > > FAIL: test-file-has-acl.sh (exit: 1) >

Re: errno --> errno name ?

Bruce Korb wrote: > > Does the .h file need to be generated? It is much more convenient to > > rely on a .h file that is platform independent. > > The formatting string depends upon the maximum errno name length. > If one can presume 16, then there's no need It seems to be 15 > on Linux: The

Re: errno --> errno name ?

Hi Bruno, On 08/14/11 10:25, Bruno Haible wrote: By the way, instead of defining a macro ERRNO_DISPLAY_FMT (that ends with a newline - why?), it is more general to define a macro #define MAX_ERROR_NAME_LENGTH 15 Users who want to user columns can then do things like printf ("%.*s", MAX_ERR

Re: canonicalize_file_name should support win32 shortcuts

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Sam, if 'canonicalize' gets this support, would you be willing to use > 'canonicalize' instead of 'canonicalize-lgpl' in clisp? yes. -- Sam Steingold

I fixed this once already [Was Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: obey --no-git.]

Hi All, On 14 Aug 2011, at 05:45, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 08/13/2011 03:17 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Jim, Eric, Paul, you are the maintainers of 'bootstrap'. Any objection >> against James' patch [1]? > > No, it looks OK to me; please apply. If we run into problems > we can fix them later. Is

Re: I fixed this once already [Was Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: obey --no-git.]

On 08/14/2011 01:38 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Please tell me to stop bugging the list if you're tired of my > mentioning this from time to time. On the other hand, if you just > need more proof that this one is working as well as I say, I'll add > it on a topic branch to the gnulib using project

Re: make -q and maintainer-makefile issues?

Paul Eggert wrote: > > I wouldn't want to kill all > > phony targets from all Makefiles, just for "make -q". > > Sorry, I see that I wasn't clear earlier. Not all phony targets have > the problem. For example, the following works fine: > > .PHONY: all > > all: foo > > foo: /etc/motd > c

Re: I fixed this once already [Was Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: obey --no-git.]

Hi Paul, On 15 Aug 2011, at 04:19, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 08/14/2011 01:38 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> Please tell me to stop bugging the list if you're tired of my >> mentioning this from time to time. On the other hand, if you just >> need more proof that this one is working as well as I say,

Re: make -q and maintainer-makefile issues?

On 08/14/2011 03:50 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > What is the difference between your test case > > - > all: foo > foo: /etc/motd > cat /etc/motd >$@ > - > > and the snippet from modules/relocatable-prog > > --