bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

Hi Eric. On 12/30/2011 03:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [SNIP] > > So we _do_ need to make the swap. > Thanks for your explanation and testing. Here is the patch I'll push shortly if there is no objection. Regards, Stefano -*-*-*- >From 34feafeec134a7bdc99d1b261fd97e6c0c5ab716 Mon Sep 17 00:00

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

Hi Bob. On 12/30/2011 05:10 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >> OK, I hope I've finally managed to partially fix this incredibly annoying bug >> -- I say "partially" because the fix is sadly *for GNU make*. Even more >> sadly, >> the solution is pret

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

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: OK, I hope I've finally managed to partially fix this incredibly annoying bug -- I say "partially" because the fix is sadly *for GNU make*. Even more sadly, the solution is pretty hacky and somewhat brittle. Still, it should cause no regression w

bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

On 12/30/2011 07:07 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> I'm not sure if putting the @anchor after the @node make a difference. >> If the anchor takes the old name to the previous node, then we may want >> to move the anchor to appear after the @node. >> > It's a pity that, with the current infrastruct

bug#10324: [Platform-testers] Automake 1.11.1b test release

On 12/19/2011 03:11 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> The pre-release automake version 1.11.1b is now available at >> . > > Some builds took longer. > [SNIP] It seems to me that all the failures reported here have been either fixed or fully understood and taken into acc

bug#10411: Add support for user-defined compressors (was: Re: Automake 1.11.2 released)

Severity: whishlist thanks On 12/27/2011 08:21 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Hello Bob, and thanks. > > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> >> The approach that lzip used satisifies the standard GNU-mandated >> configuration requirements. Due to using only standard C++, it only >> needs to configure aspe

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

On 12/28/2011 09:19 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > I did some testing on Debian unstable, Solaris 10, NetBSD 5.1 and Cygwin 1.5 > (in > part by running the relevant test cases from the automake testsuite, in part > trying out the build system of GNU coreutils). Everything seems fine so far. >

bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

On 12/28/2011 08:33 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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 Au

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

On 12/29/2011 12:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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