Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

2020-12-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:18 AM Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > > Yes, that’s intentional. Those files record information copied out of the > > git history. See build-aux/git-version-gen and maint.mk. > > I don't recall seeing "hidden" files in a GNU package

Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

2020-12-09 Thread Bruce Korb
Tho the instance is particular to gnulib, it is of a more general interest, too. On 12/9/20 6:21 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: This conversation should happen on the Gnulib mailing list; both git-version-gen and maint.mk are maintained there. I have no particular opinion about whether it is appropr

Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

2020-12-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > I don't recall seeing "hidden" files in a GNU package (or really any > > tarball distribution) before. It seems like the GNU coding standards > > should be addressing such things. The tarballs of GNU gettext versions 0.19 and higher also contain files '.version' and '.t

Re: Build issues with gettext 0.20.2 and 0.21 on Solaris 10 i386 with 64 bit

2020-12-09 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Bruno, Am 01.12.2020 um 23:13 schrieb Bruno Haible : >> Nope, neither —host nor —cache-file, but what differs is that I pass -m64 in >> CFLAGS >> and not as part of CC. > > I see. > > I have submitted a patch to improve the Autoconf documentation on this topic: >

math C++ tests: Fix compilation error in with clang >= 7 on FreeBSD

2020-12-09 Thread Bruno Haible
On FreeBSD 12.2, a gnulib testdir with --with-c++-tests fails to build: In file included from ../../gltests/test-list-c++.cc:20: In file included from ../../gltests/../gllib/gl_list.hh:22: In file included from ../../gltests/../gllib/gl_xlist.h:22: In file included from ../../gltests/../gllib/xall

Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

2020-12-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Bruce Korb wrote: Tho the instance is particular to gnulib, it is of a more general interest, too. Yes. I have always been against approaches which tie release tarballs to the version control system used since this would created dependency and make some people more equal

Re: Build issues with gettext 0.20.2 and 0.21 on Solaris 10 i386 with 64 bit

2020-12-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Dagobert, > > I have submitted a patch to improve the Autoconf documentation on this > > topic: > > . > > I vaguely remember that I had problems in the past by putting anything else > than the compiler executable path in CC when also libtool was invol

threadlib: Fix test-fstrcmp failure on FreeBSD 11

2020-12-09 Thread Bruno Haible
On FreeBSD 11.0, I'm seeing a test failure: test-fstrcmp crashes through abort(). The reason is that the program is not linked with '-lpthread', therefore pthread_key_create() returns ENOSYS, which the code in tls.h does not expect. The real problem is that pthread_in_use() returns true, because US

fmaf: Work around a bug on FreeBSD 12.2/arm

2020-12-09 Thread Bruno Haible
On FreeBSD 12.2/arm, a unit test fails: ../../gltests/test-fma2.h:351: assertion 'result == expected' failed This patch fixes it. The same test failure also occurs on FreeBSD 12.2/arm64, with the same values for x, y, z. But the added configure test does not fix it. It is as if the same fmaf() i

Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

2020-12-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/9/20 7:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile. I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the time to find another way to record the release version. Perhaps we should change git-version-gen and GNUmakefile to put this vers

Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

2020-12-09 Thread Jim Meyering
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:49 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > On 12/9/20 7:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile. > > > > I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the > > time to find another way to record the release version. > > Perhap

Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?

2020-12-09 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:06:20PM -0800, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:49 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 12/9/20 7:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > > It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile. > > > > > > I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the