Re: [PATCH] {maint} Add some tests on 'cygnus' mode

2010-12-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:53:50PM CET: > In view of a (partly-completed, soon-to-be-posted) patch series that > should fix Automake bug#7669[1][2], I'd like to improve the testsuite > coverage regarding the "cygnus" mode. Attached is a patch (for maint) > which does that

Re: [FYI] docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.

2010-12-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:21:48AM CET: > The automake manual states that the cygwin mode requires the macro > AM_CYGWIN32, > but this is not true anymore since at least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 > "merged changes from Cygnus" of 1997-08-25 (yep!); also,

Re: [FYI] docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.

2010-12-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 22 December 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > So I installed the following patch to maint, and pushed. > OK, not really, since savannah is down (again). Will push ASAP. Regards, Stefano

[FYI] docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.

2010-12-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
The automake manual states that the cygwin mode requires the macro AM_CYGWIN32, but this is not true anymore since at least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from Cygnus" of 1997-08-25 (yep!); also, the AM_CYGWIN32 macro has been obsoleted from at least commit Release-1-3b-14-gd4d5968

[PATCH] {maint} Add some tests on 'cygnus' mode

2010-12-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. In view of a (partly-completed, soon-to-be-posted) patch series that should fix Automake bug#7669[1][2], I'd like to improve the testsuite coverage regarding the "cygnus" mode. Attached is a patch (for maint) which does that. [1] ``option "foreign" after "-Wall" turns off and p

Re: [FYI] distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".

2010-12-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 03:49:49PM CET: > I've applied the patch below to a temporary bug-fixing branch, merged > it to maint, merged maint to master, and pushed. The testcase still > works with GNU make, FreeBSD make and Solaris make, but I couldn't > test if it really f

Re: User extensions

2010-12-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[off-list] Reviving an oldish thread... Reference: On Monday 01 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Valentin David wrote on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:41:47PM CET: > > I hope I will be able to prepare the new patches

Re: Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5 (was: testsuite results from master)

2010-12-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: [For the sake of the reading this message "in real-time": this reply has been sent pratically without changes also to the related thread "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23"] > > FAIL: distlinksbrk.test (exit:

Re: Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23 (was: Re: testsuite results from master)

2010-12-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: [For the sake of the reading this message "in real-time": this reply has been sent pratically without changes also to the related thread "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5"] > > FAIL: distlinksbrk.test (exit: 1

[FYI] distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".

2010-12-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
I've applied the patch below to a temporary bug-fixing branch, merged it to maint, merged maint to master, and pushed. The testcase still works with GNU make, FreeBSD make and Solaris make, but I couldn't test if it really fixes the problem with HP-UX make and IRIX make. Regards, Stefano -*-*