bug#11806: (setq load-path ..) of elisp-comp

2012-06-27 Thread Makoto Fujiwara
We have following line in automake-1.12.1/lib/elisp-comp. 73 mkdir $tempdir 74 cp "$@" $tempdir 75 76 ( 77cd $tempdir 78echo "(setq load-path (cons nil load-path))" > script 79$EMACS -batch -q -l script -f batch-byte-compile *.el || exit $? 80mv

bug#11803: missing:138 has trailing whitespace

2012-06-27 Thread Karl Berry
I saw there has been some discussion on bug-gnulib about removing "missing" and some of the other "internal" autotools helper scripts from gnulib. That makes sense, but I didn't see a final conclusion to the discussion? Meanwhile, I have been unable to autoupdate missing from automake to gnulib -

bug#11793: AM_MISSING_PROG undocumented

2012-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/26/2012 04:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> AM_MISSING_PROG has been around for a while (git log says it was >>> introduced in 1997, although the current two-argument version appears to >>> date back to commit 9ae48df in Nov 1999), and seems like something >>> stable enough to be worth gu

bug#11793: [PATCH] docs: document AM_MISSING_PROG

2012-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/27/2012 03:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Addresses automake bug#11793. > > This macro has been present for a long time, and coreutils has been > relying on it despite no documentation, which argues that it is stable > enough to be worth documenting. > > Furthermore, since we are hoping to cha

bug#11793: [PATCH] docs: document AM_MISSING_PROG

2012-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
Addresses automake bug#11793. This macro has been present for a long time, and coreutils has been relying on it despite no documentation, which argues that it is stable enough to be worth documenting. Furthermore, since we are hoping to change our preferred invocation from 'missing --run program'

bug#11791: recheck and compilation error

2012-06-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 11791 + patch thanks Hi Peter. On 06/26/2012 01:56 PM, Peter Johansson wrote: > Hello automakers, > > I've noticed the following behavior from 'make recheck'. > > If I run 'make check' and one test fails > > $ make check > ... > FAIL: foo.test > > I modify the test > > $ edit foo.