Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 12:00:53AM CEST: > Den 2010-08-01 20:06 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > >For actual applicability, it is sufficient if you provide a working > >script, post testsuite results with it in place (you might want to > > MAKE='make AR=...' > > When I do > > MAKE='

Re: [PATCH] Work around a nasty bug of Solaris make

2010-08-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[Dropping bug-autom...@gnu.org] Hi Eric. Thanks for the review. At Friday 06 August 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/05/2010 04:44 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> Thanks for the report. A segfault in make is always a bug in > >> the make implementation. If we can easily find out what makes >

Re: [PATCH] Work around a nasty bug of Solaris make

2010-08-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/05/2010 04:44 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Thanks for the report. A segfault in make is always a bug in the >> make implementation. If we can easily find out what makes it >> fail, and can easily and reliably work around it, then let's maybe >> consider it, but otherwise let's not bother

[PATCH] Work around a nasty bug of Solaris make (was: Segmentation fault with Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/make)

2010-08-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Thursday 05 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:40:15PM CEST: > > The test `parallel-tests9.test' fails on Solaris 10 when using > > /usr/xpg4/bin/make as $MAKE, due to a submake invocation > > returning an exit status `1

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-05 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi Ralf, Den 2010-08-01 20:06 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: For actual applicability, it is sufficient if you provide a working script, post testsuite results with it in place (you might want to MAKE='make AR=...' When I do MAKE='make "AR=/path/to/archive lib"' make "AR=/path/to/archive lib" chec

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:10:38AM CEST: > Den 2010-08-04 22:18 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > >Now if you insist, then maybe we can just find another compromise name. > >Please set $me to the name and use that throughout, so at least a change > >is easily done. ;-) > > I'm perfectl

Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.

2010-08-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Ralf. Ping on this? It seems to me that most issues with this patch had already been solved, so it's probably a pity to let it bitrotting here... Regards, Stefano

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-05 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi Ralf, and thank you right back for _your_ work on this! :-) Den 2010-08-04 22:18 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: thanks for your work on this! * Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:14:28PM CEST: Den 2010-08-01 20:06 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: I wonder whether we can and should call it 'archive

Re: [PATCH] New tests on obsoleted usages of automake/autoconf macros.

2010-08-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Ralf. Ping on this? It seems to me that most issues with this patch had already been solved, so it's probably a pity to let it bitrotting here... Regards, Stefano

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Some improvments to cscope support and testing

2010-08-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Ralf. Ping on this? It seems to me that most issues with this patch series had already been solved, so it's probably a pity to let it bitrotting here... Regards, Stefano