Re: Add support for README.md as optional alternative to README

2021-07-04 Thread madmurphy
Thank you, Karl! On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 12:11 AM Karl Berry wrote: > Hi madmurphy - regarding README.md et al, thanks for the patch. It > avoided the warning, but didn't actually put the .md files in the > distribution :). I finished the changes and committed them, so it will &g

Re: Add support for README.md as optional alternative to README

2021-06-03 Thread madmurphy
That is great! Please find the patch attached (use one of the two files in the archive depending on whether you have already merged my previous patch or not). --madmurphy On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:20 PM Karl Berry wrote: > Sure, sounds logical to me to allow .md for all those top-level fi

Re: Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

2021-06-03 Thread madmurphy
Thank you, Karl. I will not have much time until next week, but I will be back and try to propose a patch. On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:00 PM madmurphy wrote: > Thank you, Karl. I will not have much time until next week, but I will be > back and try to propose a patch. > > Il giorno gi

Re: Add support for README.md as optional alternative to README

2021-06-03 Thread madmurphy
Thank you Karl and Jim! What would you think if send another patch for extending the (optional) Markdown support to the INSTALL.md, ChangeLog.md and NEWS.md files too (or any subset of these)? Il giorno mar 1 giu 2021 alle ore 15:15 Jim Meyering ha scritto: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 4:53 PM Karl

Re: Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

2021-05-31 Thread madmurphy
hat symlinks will be *recreated* in case they had got previously dereferenced, but will always be dereferenced if DIST_FLAGS='symlinks' is not specified (100% control). P.S. No, my name is not Jim, I prefer to go only with my nickname when I talk about programming ;) --madmurphy

Add support for README.md as optional alternative to README

2021-05-31 Thread madmurphy
Markdown is a great invention and I believe time has come for GNU packages to support README.md files as optional alternatives to plain READMEs. Please find the patch attached. --madmurphy <>

Re: Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

2021-05-30 Thread madmurphy
patch in order to preserve symlinks only under --enable-maintainer-mode. There must be a way. --madmurphy

Re: Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

2021-05-30 Thread madmurphy
P.S. *“If I remember correctly, Autoconf also falls back to hardlinks or copying the files if the system does not support symbolic links.”*: Same goes for my patch. I use $(LN_S) for creating the links, and that falls back to hardlinks when ln -s is not supported. --madmurphy

Re: Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

2021-05-30 Thread madmurphy
is a good thing too. --madmurphy

Re: Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

2021-05-30 Thread madmurphy
I apologize, I had forgotten to write rm -rf "$${LNKPART}", for removing possible existing links. Please find the new patch attached. --madmurphy Il giorno lun 31 mag 2021 alle ore 00:34 madmurphy ha scritto: > Hi there, > > I have created a patch for Automake to sup

Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

2021-05-30 Thread madmurphy
with this patch the only way to distribute a symlink is that of listing it explicitly in EXTRA_DIST_LINKS. For the shell code I used this as base: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12498485 (but I have made a few changes). Please find the patch attached. --madmurphy <>

Re: bug#43683: make install-exec does not trigger make $(BUILT_SOURCES)

2020-10-09 Thread madmurphy
Thank you Karl! Il giorno mer 7 ott 2020 alle ore 02:18 Karl Berry ha scritto: > Hi madmurphy, > > install-exec: $(BUILT_SOURCES) > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) install-exec-am > > Thanks very much for the bug report, patch, and test case. I just > applied and

Re: Patch to trigger make $(BUILT_SOURCES) from make install-exec

2020-09-29 Thread madmurphy
. --madmurphy libfoo.tar.xz Description: Binary data

Patch to trigger make $(BUILT_SOURCES) from make install-exec

2020-09-28 Thread madmurphy
hile a patch that solves the problem, and I guess this is the place where to submit it. Please find it attached. --madmurphy patch.tar.xz Description: application/xz