Re: [PATCH 04/10] Refactoring: new $automake_remake_options global variable.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:40PM CET: > > This change is useful only in view of soon-to-follow refactorings > > and simplifications, related to the fixing of Automake bug#7669 > > a.k.a. PR/54

Re: [PATCH 12/10] More checks on warnings/strictness in precedence ("metawarnings").

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 07:49:16PM CET: > On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 09:21:56PM CET: > > > > I'm not sure it works to put AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in an included macro. > > > Apparently it does, at least

Re: [PATCH 08/10] Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:45:07PM CET: > > On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:44PM > > > CET: > > > > > +cat > Makefile.am <<'END'

Re: [PATCH 12/10] More checks on warnings/strictness in precedence ("metawarnings").

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 09:21:56PM CET: > > More checks on warnings/strictness in precedence ("metawarnings"). > > metawarnings is not a proper word, how about just eliding the part in > parentheses? Done; I also removed

Re: [PATCH 08/10] Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:45:07PM CET: > On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:44PM CET: > > > +cat > Makefile.am <<'END' > > > +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = $(foo) foreign > > > +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS +=

Re: [PATCH 11/10] Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > OK with that addressed. > I agree with all the remarks; here is what I squashed in: -*-*- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e3ebe03..5d98224 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11a: make bug triggered by source

Re: [PATCH 04/10] Refactoring: new $automake_remake_options global variable.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:40PM CET: > This change is useful only in view of soon-to-follow refactorings > and simplifications, related to the fixing of Automake bug#7669 > a.k.a. PR/547. > > * automake.in (%am_remake_options): New global hash va

Re: [PATCH 08/10] Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:44PM CET: > > In view of soon-to-follow refactorings (still in the pursuit of a > > fix for Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547), we add some more tests > > How about s/we // > Oops, I

Re: [PATCH 08/10] Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:44PM CET: > > In view of soon-to-follow refactorings (still in the pursuit of a > > fix for Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547), we add some more tests > > How about s/we // > > > on

Re: [PATCH 04/10] Refactoring: new $automake_remake_options global variable.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Also, due to the amendedings to previous patches in the series, the following squash-in is now necessary. -*-*- diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in index 06146cb..578df7c 100644 --- a/automake.in +++ b/automake.in @@ -8521,7 +8521,7 @@ sub parse_arguments () &parse_warnings ('-W', $warn

Re: [PATCH 03/10] Warnings win over strictness on command line.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:39PM CET: > > 2010-12-20 Stefano Lattarini > > > > + Warnings win over strictness on command line. > > Please add a line like > For PR automake/547: > > on a line by

Re: [PATCH 08/10] Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:44PM CET: > In view of soon-to-follow refactorings (still in the pursuit of a > fix for Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547), we add some more tests How about s/we // > on AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS support, to prevent obvious regressions. > >

Re: [PATCH 12/10] More checks on warnings/strictness in precedence ("metawarnings").

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 09:21:56PM CET: > More checks on warnings/strictness in precedence ("metawarnings"). metawarnings is not a proper word, how about just eliding the part in parentheses? Yes, I know I'm probably too picky on language; if it starts bothering you, I'l

Re: [PATCH 11/10] Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 07:02:53PM CET: > Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence. > > * NEWS: Automake explicit warning levels always take precedence > over the implicit warning levels implied by Automake strictness. > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -91,

Re: [PATCH 02/10] New test on silent-rules mode and portability warnings.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:38PM CET: > > * tests/silent-rules-nowarn.test: New test. > > * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. > > How about "silent-nowarn.test" for consistency with the other names? > OK wit

Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add new tests on strictness and warnings precedence and overriding.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 04:31:18PM CET: > On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Feel free to push the patch series > > (as far as OKed) on a new branch based off of maint, > > > Hmmm.. currently my private branch is based off of master, since I > thought it

Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add new tests on strictness and warnings precedence and overriding.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > I'm not sure if I'll get through the whole series today, but I gotta > start somewhere, so here we go. Feel free to push the patch series > (as far as OKed) on a new branch based off of maint, > Hmmm.. currently my private branch

Re: [PATCH 03/10] Warnings win over strictness on command line.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:39PM CET: > 2010-12-20 Stefano Lattarini > > + Warnings win over strictness on command line. Please add a line like For PR automake/547: on a line by itself here, as done in some (older) ChangeLog entries, and put

Re: [PATCH 02/10] New test on silent-rules mode and portability warnings.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:27:38PM CET: > * tests/silent-rules-nowarn.test: New test. > * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. How about "silent-nowarn.test" for consistency with the other names? OK with or without that change. Thanks, Ralf

Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add new tests on strictness and warnings precedence and overriding.

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, I'm not sure if I'll get through the whole series today, but I gotta start somewhere, so here we go. Feel free to push the patch series (as far as OKed) on a new branch based off of maint, if that is helpful for you. Thanks. * stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 a

Re: [PATCH v3] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > this has since been applied to maint: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:46:26PM CET: > > Subject: [PATCH] Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris > > make. > > > > * automake.in (handle_s

Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:23:48PM CET: > > On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 10:57:57AM CET: > > > > Ok for maint? > > > > > > OK with nits address

Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:23:48PM CET: > On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 10:57:57AM CET: > > > Ok for maint? > > > > OK with nits addressed. Do we have testsuite coverage for this? > > > Not yet, b

Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > +pkglib_PROGRAMS = foo > > > +doc_LIBRARIES = libquux.a > > Another nit: can we find less obviously bogus combinations that users > might actually want to use? It is sometimes necessary to put _DATA in > libdir (if only because there is no a

Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples

2011-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 10:57:57AM CET: > > Ok for maint? > > OK with nits addressed. Do we have testsuite coverage for this? > Not yet, but once this patch is applied, I might easily extend the new tests in pending pa

Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
> > +pkglib_PROGRAMS = foo > > +doc_LIBRARIES = libquux.a Another nit: can we find less obviously bogus combinations that users might actually want to use? It is sometimes necessary to put _DATA in libdir (if only because there is no automake primary for the file type). I'm not sure I know of a

Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples

2011-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 10:57:57AM CET: > Ok for maint? OK with nits addressed. Do we have testsuite coverage for this? Thanks, Ralf > docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couple > > * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom whi