Re: some clean rules don't work when some file starts with '-'

2008-03-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-03-21 00:24:20 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Vincent, > > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:26:21PM CET: > > mostlyclean-compile: > > -rm -f *.$(OBJEXT) > > > > This results in: > > > rm -f *.o > > rm: invalid option -- . > > Try `rm ./-.o' to remove the

Re: ABOUT-NLS

2008-03-20 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> All of what Micah Cowan wrote: >>> I'm also mailing the automake list to allow them to discuss >>> whether the requirement on ABOUT-NLS should be altered (I'm >>> guessing it's probably better to alter ABOUT-NLS as mentioned >

Re: ABOUT-NLS

2008-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
> All of what Micah Cowan wrote: > > > > I'm also mailing the automake list to allow them to discuss > > whether the requirement on ABOUT-NLS should be altered (I'm > > guessing it's probably better to alter ABOUT-NLS as mentioned > > though). FWIW, automake requires ABOUT-NLS only in 'gnu' strict

Re: some clean rules don't work when some file starts with '-'

2008-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Vincent, * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:26:21PM CET: > mostlyclean-compile: > -rm -f *.$(OBJEXT) > > This results in: > rm -f *.o > rm: invalid option -- . > Try `rm ./-.o' to remove the file `-.o'. Why would you do that, using non-portable file names? The link

Re: ABOUT-NLS

2008-03-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hello Micah, Excerpt of what Micah Cowan wrote: > Benno, I'm mailing you because the gettext info manual says to > send queries to you. Hmm, does it?Indeed: `info gettext trans org mail`. That's the reference you meant? Bruno, I think the sections 12.4 (Organization) and 12.5 (Informatio

ABOUT-NLS

2008-03-20 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Automake complains/dies if ABOUT-NLS is missing from packages that use GNU gettext. However, the ABOUT-NLS file contains much content that assumes the package includes gettext (libintl). For this reason I had removed ABOUT-NLS from Wget repositories (

some clean rules don't work when some file starts with '-'

2008-03-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
automake 1.10.1 generates a Makefile with: mostlyclean-compile: -rm -f *.$(OBJEXT) This results in: $ /usr/bin/make clean && echo OK [...] rm -f *.o rm: invalid option -- . Try `rm ./-.o' to remove the file `-.o'. Try `rm --help' for more information. make[1]: [mostlyclean-compile] Error

Re: new coreutils snapshot available

2008-03-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:49:35PM CET: >> -dist_man_MANS = $(MAN) >> +# We must include at least one literal name here, so that >> +# automake-1.10.1 emits the required install-man* rules. >> +dist_man_MANS = rm.1 $(MAN) > > You can

Re: new coreutils snapshot available

2008-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:49:35PM CET: > -dist_man_MANS = $(MAN) > +# We must include at least one literal name here, so that > +# automake-1.10.1 emits the required install-man* rules. > +dist_man_MANS = rm.1 $(MAN) You can instead also just s/dist_man_MANS/dist_man

Re: new coreutils snapshot available

2008-03-20 Thread Jim Meyering
"Dmitry V. Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:41:14PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> "Dmitry V. Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:27:19PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> There have been over 50 change-sets since the last one, so... >> > >>