Re: [PATCH] Minor improvements for tests `acloca*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:28:44AM CEST: > Being forced to rescan this patch some time after having written it, > I must admit that the noise-to-improvement ratio is way too high. > So OK, let's drop most of this patch. However, I'd like to retain > a couple of changes mo

Re: [PATCH] Tests `ansi*.test': some improvements and extensions.

2010-08-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Since I was fiddling with other patches tonight... Fixed a couple of typos in commit message (and ChangeLog entry accordingly), make some stderr grepping less paranoid (in ansi11.test and ansi8.tesat), and rebased against latest maint. Regards, Stefano From 3f918137b0e904afe26950741cab8b5c

Re: [PATCH] Minor improvements for tests `acloca*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 04:48:03PM CEST: > > Another testsuite-tweaking patch. This time, the changes should > > be small and simple. > > > > Minor improvements for tests `acloca*.test'. > > This is not ok. Being forced

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:01:29AM CEST: > 'wrappar' did cross my mind, but that just looks like a funny accent :-) Yes, that one is funny indeed, and another almost-palindrome. > Den 2010-08-09 21:39 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > >Further I'm fixing the archive and the compile scr

Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and extend tests `pr*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
A quick update. I added to each pr[0-9]*.test the description of the correspoding bug report, and also split the previous patch so that the changes to tests for PR and the changes tests for unrelated tests pr[!0-9]*.test are now done by two separated commits. The updated patches are attached. S

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/10/2010 01:01 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Further I'm fixing the archive and the compile script to use ! not ^ for >> shell pattern negation, and using $me also in the --help output. > > I tested with $me in the --help output but didn't get it to work so I > removed it. But your version works.

Re: [PATCH] Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.

2010-08-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 07:42:39PM CEST: > > > The rest seems good for maint, thanks. > > > > BTW, the patch was against master, and while rebasing it I saw > > (well, a merge conflict made me see) that I could backport s

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-10 09:01 skrev Peter Rosin: BTW, why is ! better than ^ here? Just curious. I found the answer myself. Quoting the portable shell chapter in the autoconf manual: | 11.5 Shell Pattern Matching | | Nowadays portable patterns can use negated character classes | like ‘[!-aeiou]’. The o

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-09 21:39 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: * Andrew W. Nosenko wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:02:09PM CEST: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 09:03, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Darn, we need another name: 'archive' is likely too common when automake is going to put all files with that name in the distributi