Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:14:33AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I would find it more elegant to install all the files separately and > > have a defined ordering between them > > It may work for you. For the general developer, I think it opens too > many pitfalls (missing -I

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Colin Watson wrote: > I would find it more elegant to install all the files separately and > have a defined ordering between them It may work for you. For the general developer, I think it opens too many pitfalls (missing -I options, confusion about which file is used, possibly empty directories a

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Maybe the solution is to expand automake's list of valid serial lines. > True, it won't help until after the next Automake release, but if there > are enough files in the wild that use '# file.m4 serial n', it seems like > we should make it a valid format rather than forcing all

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:24:07PM CET: > According to Colin Watson on 3/16/2009 8:04 AM: > > Beyond the gettext compatibility issue, there are many files in gnulib > > that have serial lines in a format not recognised by aclocal that have > > nothing to do with gettext.

Re: Serial number formats

2009-03-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-automake] According to Colin Watson on 3/16/2009 8:04 AM: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Hello Colin, >> >>> I'm using both gettext and gnulib. In order to avoid confusing file >>> conflicts, I tell gett