Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

On 2008-09-17 22:45:15 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: > > Shouldn't tar-ustar be the default instead of tar-v7? > > I'm not an expert on tar implementations and their issues, > and what would be a good default nowadays. > > Help?

Re: aclocal flags are a pain

Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:40:31AM CEST: >> Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> Not sure what you're after here. The tools themselves will bail out >>> anyway if they are too old (discounting automake 1.4 here). What's >>> the gain of having autoreconf bail

Re: aclocal flags are a pain

* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:40:31AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > Not sure what you're after here. The tools themselves will bail out > > anyway if they are too old (discounting automake 1.4 here). What's > > the gain of having autoreconf bail out? > > Right. Ma

Re: failed test: multlib

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This particular failure is due to your compiler leaving behind lots of > *.dSYM directories. Autoconf 2.62 and newer should have measures put in > place to remove them I think. I'm not sure if that is sufficient to fix

Re: MAINTAINERCLEANFILES for autotools

* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:23:16AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > One problem is that it is surprisingly difficult > > to remove all files correctly in all the different setups that autotools > > support, in such a way that 'make' both finishes cleanly, and doesn't > > c

Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: >> >> The automake manual (several versions) says about the tar-v7 option: >> >> `tar-v7' selects the old V7 tar format. This is the historical >> default. This antiquated f

Re: Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

[ ] Hello Vincent, all, Thanks for the report. * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:09:43PM CEST: > > The automake manual (several versions) says about the tar-v7 option: > > `tar-v7' selects the old V7 tar for

Re: failed test: multlib

Hello Nick, Thanks for the bug report. * Nick Rizzolo wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:37:44PM CEST: > > On my new macbook running OS X 10.5.5, I downloaded automake 1.10.1, > and the multlib test failed. Attached, please find the verbose output > of the test and my config.log. Let me know if

failed test: multlib

Hi, On my new macbook running OS X 10.5.5, I downloaded automake 1.10.1, and the multlib test failed. Attached, please find the verbose output of the test and my config.log. Let me know if you need any more information. - Nick config.log Description: Binary data multlib.out Description: Bi

Incorrect information in the manual about the tar-v7 option

Hi, The automake manual (several versions) says about the tar-v7 option: `tar-v7' selects the old V7 tar format. This is the historical default. This antiquated format is understood by all tar implementations and supports file names with up to 99 characters. This is incorrect. O