Re: automake/488: "make check" may seem to succeed when there are failed tests in multiple tools

2006-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:14:39AM CEST: > >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RW> OK to apply this patch to fix this in the spirit of Paul's suggestion, > RW> and amend the dejagnu4.test to expose the failure? > > Yes please ! Thanks. Done

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:52:31PM CEST: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure. > > Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.) > > > > I don't think it wor

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure. > Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.) > > I don't think it works : > > - if automake is called by a rebuild rule

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure. Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.) I don't think it works : - if automake is called by a rebuild rule to rebuild one Makefile.in with

Re: mkdir -p -- minor cleanup

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Paul. On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:18:04PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And $(mkdir_p) cannot be used with an option anyway. > > But under the patch I proposed, "$(mkdir_p) -m 444" would be allowed, > for example. (Well, not ``for example'', -m is

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:12:01AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > adl> Here is my attempt at checking Autoconf version in aclocal.m4. ... > Here is a second attempt [...] ... >* It does not pollute acloc

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> Here is my attempt at checking Autoconf version in aclocal.m4. adl> It would be nice if someone could suggest a better way to retrieve adl> the Autoconf version: Here is a second attempt that I think is superior to the previous