Re: appending to DEPENDENCIES

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:30:08PM CEST: > EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES would fit even better with the Uniform naming > scheme, it fits right in with EXTRA_foo_SOURCES. > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions, sorry for the delay. I'm following > up on automake-patches with the

FYI: regenerate with Autoconf 2.68

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I've regenerated the tree with 2.68, maint, branch-1.11, master. Cheers, Ralf

Re: [SIMPLE PATCH] {maint} Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 07:35:34PM CEST: > The attached patch fixes the breakage. OK for maint? > > (Still, I don't like having to tweak test script with needless quoting > to avoid spurious maintcheck failures. Oh well.) Well, here's an idea then that doe

Re: Intermittent test failures

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Finally continuing this: * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:48:31PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues writes: > > Fix timestamp issues by ensuring configure takes at least a second. > > > > * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): If we didn't sleep here, > > start a sleep in the b

Re: [SIMPLE PATCH] {maint} Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.

2010-10-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 02 October 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 04:48:01PM CEST: > > Attached is what I pushed. I also merged to master and > > branch-1.11. > > > > From a82bc0d5cfea18fc96476c23a4fb2d458af09c89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > > 2001 From: Stefano Lat

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:10:38AM CEST: > I'm applying the following patch to maint to avoid the issue. > > Unfortunately, the same technique will not work for recheck and > recheck-html. So no rechecking unless the number of failures is > lower than the command-line leng

Re: [SIMPLE PATCH] {maint} Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 04:48:01PM CEST: > Attached is what I pushed. I also merged to master and branch-1.11. > From a82bc0d5cfea18fc96476c23a4fb2d458af09c89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Stefano Lattarini > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:07:27 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] E

Automake development state

2010-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
In the last months, Automake development has largely revolved around improving the testsuite and testability. This has led to some stagnation on addressing user bug reports and new feature development. I would therefore like to stop working on testsuite issues for a while, say at least for a mont

Re: [PATCH v2] Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.

2010-10-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Friday 24 September 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Now that I've run all those tests (whose results are posted in this > thread), ok to push to master? > > Regards, >Stefano Ping ping?