RE: bug#8880: [PATCH] add pgcc support to depcomp

2012-02-27 Thread Daily, Jeff A
> > we'll need a proper disclaimer from *all* the people who have written > > this code before incorporating it in the automake repository. So I ask: > > > > Would you and the other people that have written this code be willing > > to assign the copyright to the Free Software Foundation, so that

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Miles Bader
Eric Blake writes: > I think it's worth pursuing a patch to the GNU Coding Standards that > allows a standardized configure option that allows one to specify an > alternate package name, so that things like $(pkglibdir) become > $(libdir)/$(alternate_package_name) A standardized option (described

[PATCH] add pgcc support to depcomp

2012-02-27 Thread Dave Goodell
Portland Group C Compiler support based on a code from Jeff Daily @ PNNL via the automake list and automake bug #8880: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8880 --- lib/depcomp | 73 +++ 1 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 0 deletio

[PATCH] silent-many-generic: be stricter in silent rules pattern

2012-02-27 Thread Dave Goodell
Otherwise non-silent output such as "pgCC" or "sunCC" could unintentionally match. --- tests/silent-many-generic.test |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/silent-many-generic.test b/tests/silent-many-generic.test index a7a0487..4d254ee 100755 --- a/tests

Re: bug#8880: [PATCH] add pgcc support to depcomp

2012-02-27 Thread Dave Goodell
On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:08 AM CST, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 02/25/2012 03:22 AM, Dave Goodell wrote: >> Portland Group C Compiler support based on a code from Jeff Daily @ PNNL >> via the automake list and automake bug #8880: >> > By a very cursory look, this patch seems safe and unobtrusive (

Re: bug#10894: Mixed C-Vala projects distcheck is broken

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Quentin, thanks for the report. On 02/26/2012 10:12 PM, Quentin Glidic wrote: > Package: automake > Version: 1.11.3 > > Hello, > > The distcheck of a project which mix C and Vala targets in the same > Makefile.am > leads to a pass of C targets to valac, which is completely wrong and fails if

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/27/2012 12:52 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC] > > Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in. > > On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> >> I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB, I can confirm this, based on my testi

Re: [FYI] {master} maint: assume 'test -x' is portable

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/27/2012 07:51 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Thanks for chiming in. I still haven't pushed my proposed patches to >> autoconf, and I'd like to make sure that what I'm proposing for autoconf >> still gets by on your MSYS system (I don't have MSYS set up myself, so >> getting feedback from you woul

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC] Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in. On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > > I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB, > I repeat *think* here, I don't know the details off the top of my head, Cygwin > isn't affected s

Re: [PATCH] hacking: document format for git commit messages

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/27/2012 04:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/26/2012 02:02 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> Do you really want to start requiring a Signed-off-by line, now? > > I don't care either way, but it's slightly less work without. > > I don't care whether you require it, require it to be omitted, or

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Lattarini writes: > Any transformation of a $(pkg*dir) by $(program_transform_name) > would be a bug; if you encounter such an issue, I'd be grateful if > you report it. > > But I'm pretty sure the inconsistency you are seeing here is due to > another reasons (maybe some Makefile.am or con

Re: bug#10791: aclocal fails if /usr/share/aclocal does not exist

2012-02-27 Thread Tim Retout
On 26 February 2012 10:01, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > But the more I think about it, the more I dislike the idea of creating > an empty directory whose existence is required by aclocal in order for > it to function at all.  Moreover, the objection you've raised might be > applied to the aclocal an

Re: [PATCH] hacking: document format for git commit messages

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/26/2012 02:02 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Do you really want to start requiring a Signed-off-by line, now? I don't care either way, but it's slightly less work without. >> I explicitly avoid such lines as redundant when they merely repeat >> what's on the Author: line. >> > I'm not trul

Re: [FYI] {master} maint: assume 'test -x' is portable

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Rosin
Eric Blake skrev 2012-02-27 14:58: > On 02/26/2012 03:14 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> Sorry for the late reply, but this might be relevant. Personally, I wouldn't >> classify the below as a working "test -x", but I'm not sure what working is >> in >> this context... > > Thanks for chiming in. I

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/27/2012 02:37 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > Stefano Lattarini writes: >> Any transformation of a $(pkg*dir) by $(program_transform_name) >> would be a bug; if you encounter such an issue, I'd be grateful if >> you report it. >> >> But I'm pretty sure the inconsistency you are seeing here is due t

Re: [FYI] {master} maint: assume 'test -x' is portable

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/26/2012 03:14 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, but this might be relevant. Personally, I wouldn't > classify the below as a working "test -x", but I'm not sure what working is in > this context... Thanks for chiming in. I still haven't pushed my proposed patches to autoc

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-02-22 21:54: > On 02/22/2012 09:22 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> I don't understand how that patch could actually work ... If there are >>> too many tests in $(TESTS), there will be too many logs in $(TEST_LOGS), >

[FYI] {master} cosmetics: remove a duplicated copyright line

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* tests/list-of-tests.mk: Remove a duplicated copyright line. --- tests/list-of-tests.mk |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/list-of-tests.mk b/tests/list-of-tests.mk index 0e5ee29..28a6b2a 100644 --- a/tests/list-of-tests.mk +++ b/tests/list-of-tests.mk

Re: pkglibdir, pkgdatadir and program_transform_name

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/26/2012 09:18 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello, all. In GRUB2 we have following problem: If > > program_transform_name=s,grub,grub2 > > then > pkglibdir=$libdir/grub2 > Hmm... no, this is not automake's doing (automake is in fact not documented to do so, and I've ju