bug#33856: PATCH: switch to non-recursive makefile

2018-12-24 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, Attached first attempt at converting gzip to non-recursive makefile. There's atleast one existing problem which I couldn't figure out: "dist-check.mk" contains "build_programs =" statement that is supposed to automatically generate list of programs. Doesn't seem to work, resulting in: $

bug#32903: [PATCH] Display uncompressed size when testing

2018-12-24 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 21:54:59 +0200, Sergey Ponomarev wrote: > From user point of view it would be better not to enclose the size > into brackets: it will be easier to parse the output by other tools. Good point, here’s an updated patch (I hesitated between "xxx bytes OK" and "OK xxx bytes" but wen

bug#33843: new snapshot available: gzip-1.9.15-17f5c

2018-12-24 Thread Paul Eggert
With the current version on Savannah, 'make distcheck' fails for me on Ubuntu 18.04 as shown at the end of this email. This glitch seems to have been introduced in February 2016 by the commit "maint: dist-check.mk: remove .deps dirs before comparing". Although the attached patch works around the

bug#33856: PATCH: switch to non-recursive makefile

2018-12-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for starting on that. The bin_PROGRAMS thing is computed automatically in coreutils, but is overkill for gzip. You might try adding 'bin_PROGRAMS = gzip' to cfg.mk. I ran into a different problem with that patch. When I configured with --enable-gcc-warnings, I got: CC lib/mall