Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:10:05PM CEST: > >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > - BTW, is there real-world indication of build tools other than > >> > Automake-created Makefiles that may happen to invoke parallel autom4te > >> > instanc

Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-05-10 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> > - BTW, is there real-world indication of build tools other than >> > Automake-created Makefiles that may happen to invoke parallel autom4te >> > instances, possibly indirectly? I think you can configure autom4te (with "~/.

Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-05-01 Thread Noah Misch
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:43:46AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Well, that would be fine: lock() would detect it with MAKEFLAGS. > My question was posed wrongly: is there real-world indication of > build tools other than `make' that may happen to invoke more than > one instance of autom4te, poss

Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-04-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Noah, * Noah Misch wrote on Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:35:01AM CEST: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:52:58AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > - AFAICS this causes autom4te to continue but exit with an error status. > > You are correct, but I did not intend to make it do that. We need to use a >

Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-04-28 Thread Noah Misch
Hi Ralf, On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:52:58AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > - XFile.pm needs a copyright year update (which I can add, when given > OK-to-commit). Thanks; I added that. > - AFAICS this causes autom4te to continue but exit with an error status. You are correct, but I did not in

Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-04-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Noah, * Noah Misch wrote on Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:14:01AM CEST: > > This patch revamps {Autom4te,Automake}::XFile::lock. A comment and a couple of questions: - XFile.pm needs a copyright year update (which I can add, when given OK-to-commit). - AFAICS this causes autom4te to continue bu

Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-04-28 Thread Noah Misch
Hi, This patch revamps {Autom4te,Automake}::XFile::lock. On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:46:54PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Invocation of autom4te fails currently on FreeBSD with NFS-mounted > directories: > | ../build-alpha-unknown-freebsd6.0/tests/autoconf > | autom4te: cannot lock autom4te.cac

Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Noah Misch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe I lack an Automake copyright assignment; is an Autoconf > assignment sufficient, given that this file is present in both > projects? Yes. > Is this suitable? It looks fine to me (though I'm not a Perl whiz). Thanks. I hope Alexandre can commen