* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 04:39:50PM CET:
> On Sunday 16 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:50:31PM CET:
> > > Hmm... To me, this sounds an awful lot like sweeping the dirt under
> > > the rug.
> >
> > OK, so here's
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
I reject the notion of disallowing VPATH builds with GNU make only.
The reason is simple: I make good use of this feature every time I test
the Automake package with some non-GNU make (I build several platforms
off of one tree shared via NFS). It woul
On Sunday 16 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
>
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:50:31PM CET:
> > On Saturday 15 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > ensure_distcheck_ ()
> > > {
> > > if $MAKE --version -v | grep GNU; then
> > > $MAKE distche
Hello Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:50:31PM CET:
> On Saturday 15 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > ensure_distcheck_ ()
> > {
> > if $MAKE --version -v | grep GNU; then
> > $MAKE distcheck
> > else
> > :
> > fi
> > }
> Hmm... To me, this sound
[ Adding automake to CC: ]
On Saturday 15 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> OK, so all the added '$MAKE distcheck' "for safety" at the end of the
> tests caused roughly a thousand new test failures across the board, it
> seems, drowning other signals. Most of these failures apparently have
>
OK, so all the added '$MAKE distcheck' "for safety" at the end of the
tests caused roughly a thousand new test failures across the board, it
seems, drowning other signals. Most of these failures apparently have
two reasons:
1) Cleanup failed to remove some directory because of stale NFS handles,
