bug#7868: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

2011-12-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/28/2011 08:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Sorry for top-posting. I don't want to lose any text of the original mail. > > I totally forgot that I had applied Ralf's patch to my 1.11.1 install. Now > that I have updated GraphicsMagick to using Automake 1.11.2, the patch is no > longer presen

bug#7893: HP-UX make causes autoconf timestamp issues

2011-12-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 7893 wontfix severity 7893 minor close 7893 thanks On 12/28/2011 09:27 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > That issue is now documented in the INSTALL file, as well > as in the Autoconf manual. Here's the relevant commit: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d082fa1ca

bug#7893: HP-UX make causes autoconf timestamp issues

2011-12-28 Thread Paul Eggert
That issue is now documented in the INSTALL file, as well as in the Autoconf manual. Here's the relevant commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d082fa1ca25a16b60fb874e80f51ee79408e1f4

bug#10237: bug#9928: AM_SILENT_RULES does not work with NonStop make

2011-12-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Paul. On 12/28/2011 09:08 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 12/26/11 13:35, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> testing on non-Linux systems (*BSD and Solaris at least, hopefully also >> Cygwin or MinGW). > > I tested it on Solaris 8 and that test worked fine. > I used Autoconf 2.63, GNU m4 1.4.13, and the

bug#10237: AM_SILENT_RULES does not work with NonStop make

2011-12-28 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/26/11 13:35, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > testing on non-Linux systems (*BSD and Solaris at least, hopefully also > Cygwin or MinGW). I tested it on Solaris 8 and that test worked fine. I used Autoconf 2.63, GNU m4 1.4.13, and the system-supplied 'make'. Some of the other tests failed, e.g.,

bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

2011-12-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/28/2011 01:50 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/26/2011 12:34 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> While on this subject; all the other autotools entitle their >>> invocation nodes "autofoo Invocation", whereas automake calls its >>> "Invoking Automake". >>> >> I haven't changed this, because that co

bug#7893: HP-UX make causes autoconf timestamp issues

2011-12-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Ping: I intend to close that bug report soon as a "wontfix", since the issue is due to such a broken, anti-POSIX behaviour of HP-UX make that it is pointless trying to work around it. Still, it would be nice if autoconf would explicitly document

bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

2011-12-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/26/2011 12:34 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> While on this subject; all the other autotools entitle their >> invocation nodes "autofoo Invocation", whereas automake calls its >> "Invoking Automake". >> > I haven't changed this, because that could break existing third-party links > to our HTM