Re: SunOS4 compatibility (was: automake/533: DISTFILES containing a directory and files in that directory)

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Oh brother. According to autoconf.info, SunOS4 'cp' did not support the -f option. Anyone think we still need 'make dist' to work there? I don't think that support for 'make dist' on a bare system is necessary. This is not even close to a modern

Re: proposed patch: parallel-tests: also record logs of SKIPped tests.

* Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:34:19AM CET: > Le 19 mars 09 à 23:17, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : >> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:07:15PM CET: >>> Once I taught coreutils' "make check" to tell why a test is skipped, >>> I discovered a few that should not have been

SunOS4 compatibility (was: automake/533: DISTFILES containing a directory and files in that directory)

[ adding automake@; this is ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:17:06AM CET: > --- a/lib/am/distdir.am > +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am > @@ -202,10 +202,16 @@ endif %?TOPDIR_P% > ## directory exists only in $(srcdir)

Re: automake/533: DISTFILES containing a directory and files in that directory

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:17:58AM CET: > * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:24:55PM CET: > > I tried to include a Third-Party package (automake manual 23.2) using > > the suggestion in the last paragraph, i.e., doing everything with a > > proxy Makefile.

Re: [PATCH] Fix a documentation typo.

Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:10:00AM CET: > > From 15b94859da3b658182e4a334f85fbf8e0ddb6ce2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:09:23 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Fix a documentation typo. > > * doc/automake.texi (Headers): Clarify th

Re: parallel make and the maintainer GNUmakefile

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:22:56PM CET: > GNUmakefile: disable parallelism only for multiple, recursive targets > > * top/GNUmakefile (ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): New macro; allow user > additions in the Makefile. > (AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): New macro, overrid

Re: [PATCH 11] Fix LAZY_TEST_SUITE handling and $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) recreation.

Hi Akim, thanks for working through this with me! * Akim Demaille wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:39:07PM CET: > > For the records, here is the version I use currently, some of bugs you > mentioned being fixed. Thanks. I am applying this improvement: Cheers, Ralf Minor optimization in