bug#13588: Pax hangs in case big UID

2013-04-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/23/2013 05:04 PM, Petr Hracek wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > I was a little bit busy. > No worries. > From my point of view user is not informed that his UID is too big. > I think that it should be mentioned and visible directly on the screen. > But then, following the same logic, we should al

bug#13588: Pax hangs in case big UID

2013-04-23 Thread Petr Hracek
Hello Stefano, I was a little bit busy. From my point of view user is not informed that his UID is too big. I think that it should be mentioned and visible directly on the screen. But as I mentioned it is my point of view. Here are results: test@kiasportyw: ~/mycproject$ ./configure checking

bug#13760: [PATCH 2/3] dry-run: with GNU make, prefer $(MFLAGS) over $(MAKEFLAGS)

2013-04-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Fixes automake bug#13760 for GNU make. * lib/am/header-vars.am (am__make_dryrun): If GNU make is being used, rely on the contents of the $(MFLAGS) variable rather than of the $(MAKEFLAGS) to decide whther make is being executed in "dry run" mode. Not only this makes the code possibly faster and l

bug#13760: [PATCH 3/3] dry-run: don't get confused by '-I' option

2013-04-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Fixes automake bug#13760 for non-GNU make implementations that still support the option '-I'. So far, the only such make implementation are FreeBSD (8.x) make and NetBSD (5.x) make. * lib/am/header-vars.am (am__make_dryrun): If a non-GNU make is being used, try to handle the '-I' option in $MAKEF

bug#13760: [PATCH 1/3] header vars: can determine whether we are running under GNU make

2013-04-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
This is mostly a preparatory patch in view of future changes. * lib/am/header-vars.am (am__is_gnu_make): New, contains shell code that determines whether we are running under GNU make. * t/make-is-gnu.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- lib/am/header

bug#13760: [PATCH 0/3] dry-run: don't get confused by '-I' option

2013-04-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: Hello, and sorry for the shameful delay. Boris Kolpackov wrote: > > I think if we try to support all make flavors in a combined test, > things will get messy (my other idea was to resort to executing make if > MAKEFLAGS contains more

bug#13588: Pax hangs in case big UID

2013-04-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/22/2013 03:55 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Peter, thanks for the feedback. > > On 04/22/2013 03:21 PM, Petr Hracek wrote: >> Hello Stefano, >> >> thanks for the patch. All is working properly. >> User is informed that UID is not enough smaller and configure script does >> not failed. >