bug#11419: [PATCH] yacc, lex: new 'no-ylwrap' option to prevent use of the 'ylwrap' script

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
When used with good yacc and lex implementations, like Flex and GNU Bison, the 'ylwarp' script (meant to work around the deficiencies of older or inferior yacc and lex implementations) creates far more problems and annoyances than it solves. For more details, just see the huge amount of related bu

bug#11371: [Patch] fix silent-rules option

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/28/2012 09:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > tags 11371 wontfix > thanks > No more activity on this bug report for a couple of months, thus I'm closing it. Regards, Stefano

bug#7434: When an incorrect option is used before --help/--version, automake behaviour is inconsistent with that of other GNU programs.

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/25/2011 06:36 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > Since it seems to me that we "agreed to differ" on this issue, I'm > tagging the report as "wontfix". > Actually, all of this discussion has basically become quite moot after we have decided to share the option parsing code between Autoconf and

bug#11146: texinfo: could automake start using the '--tidy' option in its dvi and pdf rules?

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 11:45 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> I'll thus apply to two attached patches to master in a couple of days >> if there is no objection. >> > Pushed now. > And the proposal for using '--tidy' in Automake 1.13 has been (basically) implemented as part of this commit:

bug#8031: feature request: slow "make clean"

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
forcemerge 10697 8031 close 8031 thanks On 02/13/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > This is a copy of > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-02/msg00017.html > It's not really a bug, but rather a feature request. > > Ralf > > Original Message > Subject: slow "make

bug#7689: wontfix

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 7689 wontfix close 7689 thanks I'm closing this bug report. Packages that are not interested in being portable to non-GNU makes are now advised to use the Automake-NG fork instead: Regards, Stefano

bug#11419: ylwrap does not rename y.tab.h in y.tab.c

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: On 06/25/2012 10:25 AM, Akim Demaille wrote: > > Le 20 juin 2012 à 07:26, Akim Demaille a écrit : > >> >> Le 15 juin 2012 à 13:34, Akim Demaille a écrit : >> >>> I installed it, and some more tests, in maint, as follo