Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
> EB> 'chmod -x install-sh' is not portable. > > Thanks for the info. Do you actually know any system where this doesn't work? Any system with coreutils-5.91 installed, and a umask that restricts x bits differently than the current x bit setting of the file: $ touch file $ chmod o+x file $ (u

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-10-17 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "EB" == Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> 'chmod -x install-sh' is not portable. Thanks for the info. Do you actually know any system where this doesn't work? EB> It is much more portable to do 'chmod a-x install-sh'. Done. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz Shared books are happy book

Re: A few typos

2005-10-17 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "SK" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SK> 2005-10-04 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SK> * doc/automake.texi (Program and Library Variables): Typo. SK> * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (transform_variable_recursively): Typo SK> in a comment. Thank you. I've installed those. -- A

Re: [PATCH] RFC: Added wildcard support to dirlist parsing

2005-10-17 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "SK" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SK> Alexandre, will you accept it? Sure. It just needs the usual stuff for a new feature: some documentation, and a test case that shows it (will continue to) works as documented. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz Shared books are happy books. ht

AM_SUBST_IGNORE = AC_SUBST without Makefile variable definition

2005-10-17 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Occasionally we want to disable automatic variable definitions of AC_SUBSTitutions. Two cases were already hardcoded into automake (AMDEPBACKSLASH and ANSI2KNR). I had been considering adding such a feature since Autoconf introduced multiline AC_SUBSTitutions. Now I think Ralf's suggestion in PR/

Re: [PATCH] RFC: Added wildcard support to dirlist parsing

2005-10-17 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Clifford Wolf wrote: > With this patch applied it is possible to use entries such as > "/opt/*/share/aclocal" in the /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist file. attached please find a variant of the patch which applies to Automake CVS HEAD. (It passed "make