bug#11239: aclocal-invocation

2012-04-13 Thread Karl Berry
Regarding automake.texi in 1.11.4. The whole point of the "Individual utilities" section is to have an entry for the actual command names. I can understand the rationale of changing the "individual" automake to automake-invocation, since the whole package is also named Automake. However, there is

bug#11235: automake build fails: "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm"

2012-04-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 11235 + patch close 11235 thanks On 04/13/2012 06:17 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > ... >> Could you please reference the bug number here as well? As in: >> >> Subject: [PATCH] build: use slightly older help2man, for improved >> portability >> >> Fixes automake bug

bug#11235: automake build fails: "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm"

2012-04-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... > Could you please reference the bug number here as well? As in: > > Subject: [PATCH] build: use slightly older help2man, for improved > portability > > Fixes automake bug#11235 > > * doc/help2man: Downgrade to help2man-1.36.4, so that it does > not require Lo

bug#11235: automake build fails: "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm"

2012-04-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Jim, thanks for the quick reply. On 04/13/2012 06:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On a Fedora 16 system (the ppc64 one provided by the GCC compile farm, >> "gcc110"), when I try to build automake from a distribution tarball, I >> get this error: >> >> GEN doc/a

bug#11235: automake build fails: "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm"

2012-04-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On a Fedora 16 system (the ppc64 one provided by the GCC compile farm, > "gcc110"), when I try to build automake from a distribution tarball, I > get this error: > > GEN doc/aclocal.1 > GEN automake > GEN doc/automake.1 > GEN aclocal >

bug#11235: automake build fails: "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm"

2012-04-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On a Fedora 16 system (the ppc64 one provided by the GCC compile farm, "gcc110"), when I try to build automake from a distribution tarball, I get this error: GEN doc/aclocal.1 GEN automake GEN doc/automake.1 GEN aclocal GEN lib/Automake/Config.pm GE

bug#11232: automake-1.11.4 regression

2012-04-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 11232 + patch close 11232 thanks On 04/13/2012 12:20 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Hi Dmitry, thanks for the report and the fix. >> >> On 04/13/2012 12:22 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: >>> >>> [PATCH] install: fix the case then

bug#11232: automake-1.11.4 regression

2012-04-13 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Dmitry, thanks for the report and the fix. > > On 04/13/2012 12:22 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > > > [PATCH] install: fix the case then an install directory is a shell command > > > > Fixes automake bug#11232. > > > > GNU aut

bug#11204: automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8

2012-04-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/13/2012 10:33 AM, David Fang wrote: > > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> What happens if you use GNU info instead? Do the testsuite failures >> persist? > > Already using GNU info (previous report): > Sorry, I meant GNU 'install-info' (instead of dpkg 'install-info'). Thanks for your patience

bug#11232: automake-1.11.4 regression

2012-04-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Dmitry, thanks for the report and the fix. On 04/13/2012 12:22 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > [PATCH] install: fix the case then an install directory is a shell command > > Fixes automake bug#11232. > > GNU automake used to support shell commands in installation directories, > but it was inadve

bug#11204: automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8

2012-04-13 Thread David Fang
and in fact Automake has stopped trying to cater to Debian install-info since the release 1.11.2. So I have an install-info from dpkg, which is used by fink, which installs packages to another prefix (default: /sw): fang% which install-info /sw/sbin/install-info fang% dpkg -S `which install-inf

bug#11204: automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8

2012-04-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/12/2012 08:32 PM, David Fang wrote: >> This looks suspicious: >> >> FAIL: distcheck-override-infodir.test (exit: 2) >> === >> >> distcheck-override-infodir: running install-info --version >> Debian install-info 1.10.21. Copyright (C) 1994,1995