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

2012-02-28 Thread Dave Goodell
Your patch does not work for me. Attached is a fixed version of your patch that matches the offending $CXX value correctly, handles spaces in compiler wrapper arguments, and fixes a typo. If you have a better alternative to the conservative "case" statement that I used, please use it. Between

[PATCH] tests: fix spurious failure when dependency tracking is unavailable (was: Re: bug#8880: [PATCH] add pgcc support to depcomp)

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/27/2012 11:01 PM, Dave Goodell wrote: > "yacc-dist-nobuild.dir" fails without this depcomp patch, but it passes with > it. I didn't fully grok this test, but it looks like the test requires > dependency support from the compiler+depcomp to operate correctly. > Not really, that was a redundan

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

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[Dropping bug-automake] Hi Jeff, Dave. On 02/28/2012 12:44 AM, Daily, Jeff A wrote: >>> 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

Re: bug#10898: test-suite output of automake-1.11.3 - it requested I send it to you!

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/28/2012 05:51 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding autoconf] > > On 02/28/2012 09:42 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >>>Ah, likely the famous ksh bug with "$@" and empty arguments: >>> >>> >>> > >> See automake

Re: bug#10898: test-suite output of automake-1.11.3 - it requested I send it to you!

2012-02-28 Thread Eric Blake
[adding autoconf] On 02/28/2012 09:42 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>Ah, likely the famous ksh bug with "$@" and empty arguments: >> >> >> > See automake bug#10898. > > At least the AT&T and OpenSolaris versio

Re: bug#10898: test-suite output of automake-1.11.3 - it requested I send it to you!

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Lou. Please keep the mailing list in loop when you answer. Thanks. I'm re-sending your answer to the list, so that it gets seen by the other subscribers and registered in the bug tracker. On 02/28/2012 03:05 PM, Lou Picciano wrote: > Stefano, > > Tks for your notes - > I'm encouraged to thi

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

2012-02-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Dave, thanks for the patch. It turns out we have already in place a workaround for a situation similar to the one you're facing (that situation being the Sun C++ compiler being named 'CC'). So the best fix IMO is to extend this workaround to deal also with you case. The attached patch should