bug#18744: Problem with am__is_gnu_make: Arg list too long

2014-10-15 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Hello gnus, I was hacking on libarchive for compatibility with an older Tru64 system, in conjuction with Automake 1.14.1, when I encountered a problem during "gmake check": [...] gmake check-TESTS gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/libarchive-3.1.2/_build' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/liba

bug#17354: distclean fails when source is relatively otherplace

2014-10-15 Thread Colomban Wendling
I just ran into this issue today trying to port a relatively large build system to use `subdir-objects`. This is quite annoying as everything else works just fine, but this bug either prevents me from using `subdir-objects` at all or forces me to rewrite these parts using a completely different ap

bug#18734: [PATCH] vala: Improper parsing of valac arguments leads to garbage in DIST_COMMON

2014-10-15 Thread Colomban Wendling
Hi, The parsing of valac flags is too permissive and incorrectly matches some input, possibly leading to garbage in DIST_COMMON -- and then, build failures. The problem is that parsing of valac flags uses a non-anchored pattern and so any argument happening to be a subset of a parsed argument wil