Re: [PATCHES] Two small improvements to HACKING

2010-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:09:15AM CEST: > HACKING: improve description of git "bugfix branches". > HACKING: acknowledge Perl 4 as utterly obsolete. Nits below. > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] HACKING: improve description of git "bugfix branches". > > * HACKING (Working with

[PATCHES] Two small improvements to HACKING

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Stefano Lattarini (2): HACKING: improve description of git "bugfix branches". HACKING: acknowledge Perl 4 as utterly obsolete. HACKING | 10 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -*-*- OK for maint? Regards, Stefano From 9b1532f7d4ffea02157899c33b87289c277f454b Mo

Re: [PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:35:20PM CEST: > > On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Ideally, you'd commit this to a temporary branch based off of > > > the patch that introduced the regression, and me

Re: [PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:35:20PM CEST: > On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Ideally, you'd commit this to a temporary branch based off of the > > patch that introduced the regression, and merge that branch into > > maint. If we follow this strategy c

Re: [PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:50:50PM CEST: > > The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of > > tests, introduced my recent patch "Minor improvements and fixes > > in tests `depcomp*.test'

Re: [PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:50:50PM CEST: > The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of tests, > introduced my recent patch "Minor improvements and fixes in tests > `depcomp*.test'." > > OK to push to maint ASAP? Ideally, you'd commit this t

Closing the thread

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
After all, it turned out that the issue dealt with in this thread has its good share of subtleties. Now I think it's better to rewrite this patch as a patch series. So, please just ignore this thread from now on; I'll start a new one when the new patch series will be ready. Thanks, Stefano

Re: More problems when overriding autotools in bootstrap

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Forget it. While the patch I'm proposing here is IMO still valuable, it does nothing for the failures in missing.test and missing2.test; in fact, these failure are due to the fact that I used an absolute paths for autoconf and autom4te when configuring. At this point, I think that fixing missing

[PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of tests, introduced my recent patch "Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'." OK to push to maint ASAP? Regards, Stefano From 260e5422067b12b966f00038c1db76b1d562b405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini Dat

Re: [PATCHES] Docs on automatic dependency tracking

2010-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> OK for maint if you agree. >> I agree, and I think I should add your name to the ChangeLog >> entry. OK? > No need, but do however pleases you. I added your name too, since the wording which went into the manual is basically yours (and much be