Re: Partial linking with _RELOCATABLES - Proposed patch

2006-03-22 Thread Marc Alff
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: MA> This is a proposed patch to use partial linking with Automake-1.9.6 Thanks for the proposal, I plan to look at it on saturday. 1.9.6 is a problem since this branch is two-year old. Not a problem, I will look at the CVS code base and see how

Re: allow (sub)packages to share files in subpackages

2006-03-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Alexandre, * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:31:56AM CET: > >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RW> Hmm. AFAIK the make launched won't necessarily override the > RW> distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) > > RW> which it reads from the Makefile, wit

Re: allow (sub)packages to share files in subpackages

2006-03-22 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RW> Hi Alexandre, RW> * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:37:57AM CET: >> >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RW> [3] The $(MAKE) invocation for the subpackage `distdir' is not RW> portable to all

Re: depcomp testing

2006-03-22 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RW> OK to apply this patch? Sorry about all that noise. Sure! -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz Shared books are happy books. http://www.bookcrossing.com/friend/gadl

Re: OT: ChangeLog stylistics

2006-03-22 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, > I prefer to use the active voice (and present, not past) in ChangeLog > entries. actually, I prefer it, too. It's just that when someone told me to use the past tense, I found his reasons stronger than mine. But I continued to use the imperatives, anyway. > The same goes for comments

Re: OT: ChangeLog stylistics

2006-03-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The changelog informs about what _was done_ so there is no reason to use > present tense or imperative. > > I think I remember being corrected that something like > > * dir/kill.c (killer): Add line to kill `foo.' > > should rather be > > * dir/