Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-m4] On 06/26/2012 05:23 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> I'm almost inclined not to do so, to force the affected >>> projects' broken setup to be fixed; i.e., if you are using Automake 1.11, >>> you let it install the correct 'missing' program, instead of forcing it >>> to use the 'mi

Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade

2012-06-26 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 06/26/2012 05:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding bug-m4] > > On 06/26/2012 05:23 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > I'm almost inclined not to do so, to force the affected projects' broken setup to be fixed; i.e., if you are using Automake 1.11, you let it install the correct 'missi

Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade

2012-06-26 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > > Any idea for a simple solution to this problem? > > Aren't there timestamps in the auxiliary scripts for a reason? If a > script is updated as part of a new automake release, can't automake > insert some sanity checks to see if the currently-installed scripts have > too old

Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/26/2012 12:04 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >>> Any idea for a simple solution to this problem? >> >> Aren't there timestamps in the auxiliary scripts for a reason? If a >> script is updated as part of a new automake release, can't automake >> insert some sanity checks to see i

Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/26/2012 10:15 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > What about this: since the great majority of the packages out there do > not seem to override nor patch the Automake-provided auxiliary scripts, > we could just make automake always reinstall such scripts by default; > and allow the users to mark

Re: [PATCH] missing: retore back-compat for use by older automake

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/26/2012 11:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 06/26/2012 06:40 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> Commit a22717dffe3 removed the --run argument, since our new preferred >> calling conventions now imply it; but if a newer 'missing' is mixed >> with an already built project that used an older Automake

Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade

2012-06-26 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Eric. On 06/26/2012 06:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/26/2012 10:15 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> What about this: since the great majority of the packages out there do >> not seem to override nor patch the Automake-provided auxiliary scripts, >> we could just make automake always reinsta