Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

2011-09-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Peter. On Saturday 03 September 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > > [BIG SNIP] > > I don't think cccl is the future, I see it as the past. It's > simply not needed when the needed bits are already in 'compile'. > > It's a bit sad to see all the effort going into writing private > scripts wrapping cl

[PATCH] openat: test for fstatat (AT_FDCWD, ..., 0) bug

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Further testing with tar has revealed a bug with AIX 7.1's implementation of fstatat (this time for real, I think :-). I'm installing this patch into gnulib so that it can propagate into tar. openat: test for fstatat (AT_FDCWD, ..., 0) bug This tests for another fstatat bug on AIX 7.1: fstatat (AT

Re: [PATCH] openat: test for fstatat (AT_FDCWD, ..., 0) bug

2011-09-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > Further testing with tar has revealed a bug with AIX 7.1's > implementation of fstatat (this time for real, I think :-). > I'm installing this patch into gnulib so that it can propagate > into tar. > > openat: test for fstatat (AT_FDCWD, ..., 0) bug > This tests for another fst

Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

2011-09-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2011-09-03 00:43 skrev Michael Goffioul: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> The web has a couple of different forked versions of cccl. What is >> the "upstream" for that script? There is ancient support for some >> version of cccl in libtool, but I didn't get it to work w

Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

2011-09-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2011-09-03 03:47 skrev Bruno Haible: > Peter Rosin wrote: >> I didn't want to create yet another fork of cccl, and instead fixed >> the 'compile' script in Automake to handle the bits that must be >> handled by the build tools (and taught libtool to deal with cl >> natively). What I didn't do w

Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

2011-09-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi Stefano, Den 2011-09-03 09:41 skrev Stefano Lattarini: > On Saturday 03 September 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: >> >> [BIG SNIP] >> >> I don't think cccl is the future, I see it as the past. It's >> simply not needed when the needed bits are already in 'compile'. >> >> It's a bit sad to see all the

Re: [Libguestfs] Patch to build hivex lib on Windows

2011-09-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 04:45:28PM +0200, Gillen Daniel wrote: >> I'm just posting this here in case someone is interested in building >> hivex on Windows (mingw32). The attached patch allows building the >> lib but not the tools (hivexsh etc..) as there are some more >>

Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

2011-09-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 03 September 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > Den 2011-09-03 09:41 skrev Stefano Lattarini: > > On Saturday 03 September 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> > >> [BIG SNIP] > >> > >> I don't think cccl is the future, I see it as the past. It's > >> simply not needed when the needed

[PATCH] openat: test for fstatat (..., 0) bug

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Continuing on our fstatat saga with GNU Tar and AIX 7.1, I installed the following into gnulib. We may not be done yet, but we're progressing openat: test for fstatat (..., 0) bug Further testing with tar suggests that fstatat (..., 0) does not work in general, on AIX 7.1; see