Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft

2013-09-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 02:23:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > I’m wondering about the asymptotic behavior of the current policy: > aren’t all modules going to be LGPLv2+ as time tends to +∞? Speaking as a gnulib *user* I would be happy to see this happen. The specific pain point

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-gnulib] On 09/22/2013 07:08 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > > The latest release is no longer compilable with Sun Studio 12.3 compiler as it > automatically uses GCC-specific flags: > >> /opt/solarisstudio12.3/bin/cc -D_STDC_C99= -fdiagnostics-show-option >> -funit-at-a-time -xO3

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/22/2013 07:08 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > >> > >> > The latest release is no longer compilable with Sun Studio 12.3 compiler >> > as it >> > automatically uses GCC-specific flags: I don't observe this behavior on my host (Sun Studio 12.3, Solaris 10 sparc). I get

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
Hello Dago, On 09/23/2013 09:07 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > Hi Erik, It's Eric, but you're not the first to make that mistake :) >> I don't observe this behavior on my host (Sun Studio 12.3, >> Solaris 10 sparc). I get the bad behavior only if I run >> 'configure' with the --enable-gcc-warn

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake wrote: > is this > something where you can tackle the gnulib patch faster than I can? I can test something easily, yes, but I'm not sure what direction you're headed here.

Re: [PATCH] configmake: support new --runstatedir option

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2013 04:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ documents that many distros > are now preferring to use /run rather than /var/run for > storage of pid files and other per-process temporary files > that must not be cleaned out during arbitrary TMPDIR sweeps. > As such, th

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Erik, Am 23.09.2013 um 16:27 schrieb Paul Eggert : > Eric Blake wrote: >> On 09/22/2013 07:08 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> The latest release is no longer compilable with Sun Studio 12.3 compiler as it automatically uses GCC-specific flags: > > I don't observe this b

Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft

2013-09-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Richard W.M. Jones" skribis: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 02:23:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I’m wondering about the asymptotic behavior of the current policy: >> aren’t all modules going to be LGPLv2+ as time tends to +∞? > > Speaking as a gnulib *user* I would be happy to s

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/23/2013 09:32 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> is this >> something where you can tackle the gnulib patch faster than I can? > > I can test something easily, yes, but I'm not sure what > direction you're headed here. Basically, gl_WARN_ADD in gnulib/m4/warnings.m4 is trying to

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/23/13 08:40, Eric Blake wrote: > -fdiagnostics-show-option is very useful for gcc; perhaps we > should tweak m4/manywarnings.m4 to add it to the set of warnings probed > by default when gcc warnings are enabled I'm not familiar with that option. Isn't it the default behavior for GCC nowada

-fdiagnostics-show-option [was: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/23/2013 11:21 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 09/23/13 08:40, Eric Blake wrote: > >> -fdiagnostics-show-option is very useful for gcc; perhaps we >> should tweak m4/manywarnings.m4 to add it to the set of warnings probed >> by default when gcc warnings are enabled > > I'm not familiar with that

Re: glob.c warnings

2013-09-23 Thread Roland McGrath
That change is fine.

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Dago, Thanks for the analysis. On Sep 23, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > I didn't enable gcc-warnings, but as it turns out this flag is automatically > enabled when $srcdir/.git is present: > > AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings], > [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-gcc-warnings], >

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/23/2013 09:28 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > Clearly, it should at least check whether the compiler is actually gcc before > piling > on the flags, although I don't think it is serious enough to warrant another > release. > > Eric, do you mind if I revert that change in branch-1.4 in case

Re: [ANN] m4-1.4.17 released [stable]

2013-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Eric, On Sep 24, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/23/2013 09:28 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> >> Clearly, it should at least check whether the compiler is actually gcc >> before piling >> on the flags, although I don't think it is serious enough to warrant another >> release. >