bug#16623: [PATCH] docs: improve description of ${PACKAGE}, ${VERSION}, and similar variables

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
In particular, suggesting that $PACKAGE and $VERSION should be aliases of the $PACKAGE_TARNAME and $PACKAGE_VERSION definitions coming from AC_INIT, and not be defined via an obsolete 2-argument invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE; and why that is the best default, given all our historical baggage. See

bug#16623: PACKAGE vs PACKAGE_TARNAME

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/03/2014 12:23 AM, infirit wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 18:56:01 +0100 infirit wrote: On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:21:03 +1000 Peter Johansson wrote: [adding bug-automake] On 02/02/14 12:25, infirit wrote: So for a project we wanted to make the tarball different from from the package name. So we

bug#19132: Failed Tests: t/depcomp2 t/primary-prefix-invalid-couples

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
close 19132 stop On 11/21/2014 12:11 AM, Dustin Morado wrote: See attached test-suite.log Cheers, Dustin M. Both the issues should be fixed in Automake 1.14.1 (released several months ago). Feel free to reopen this bug if you see the issues persisting even with that version. Thanks, Stefa

bug#14898: closing automake bug 14898

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 14898 wontfix close 14898 stop Bug opened for too long, and the different failures reported here have been (as asked) reported as new, more granular bugs: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14959 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14960 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugrepo

bug#19308: Automake error

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 19308 notabug close 19308 stop Reference: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19308 Hi, sorry for the awful delay. On 12/08/2014 10:39 AM, Akhila C A wrote: I am trying to create the driver blip in TIny os. While I am doing that I got this error *ubuntu@arm:/opt/tinyos-2.1.1/su

bug#14601: Unexplained failure in test 't/install-info-dir.sh'

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
retitle 18998 Unexplained failure in test 't/install-info-dir.sh' retitle 14601 Unexplained failure in test 't/install-info-dir.sh' severity 14601 minor severity 18998 minor tags 14601 + moreinfo tags 18998 + moreinfo merge 14601 18998 stop For the moment, I've tweaked the t/install-info-dir.sh t

bug#18998: Fails in make check automake

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/08/2014 05:29 PM, braga wrote: Dear automake staff I am trying to install automake 1.14 but I am facing two fails in make check. > I have also tried sudo make check but nothing change. I attach the make check log Regards, Vittorio The failure in t/autohdr-subdir-pr12495 was to do the

bug#17536: automake.texi typo fixes

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
severity 17536 minor close 17536 stop

bug#17536: [FYI] {micro} Automake docs: fix typos and use of British English

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
From: Karl Berry * doc/automake.texi: Here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- doc/automake.texi | 12 ++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index 20855d6..736d61d 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.tex

bug#19311: [FYI] {minor} Expose automake bug#19311

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
AC_PROG_CC called before AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR can silently force wrong $ac_aux_dir definition. * t/auxdir-pr19311.sh: New. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it as an XFAIL test. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- t/auxdir-pr19311.sh | 45 + t/list-of-tests.mk

bug#17327: Bug report

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
retitle 17327 Automake dying with internal error: "global options already processed" tags 17327 moreinfo thanks On 04/23/2014 08:18 PM, Gallagher James wrote: OSX 10.9, automake 1.14, autoconf 2.69 autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing automake: error: global optio

bug#19311: regression: 1.14 may use ac_aux_dir before defined (again)

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
retitle 19311 AC_PROG_CC can force wrong $ac_aux_dir definition in automake 1.14 severity 19311 minor thanks On 12/08/2014 06:15 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: When AC_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS precedes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, it used to throw an error - which has been fixed in http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugrepor

bug#18648: rm -f with no file operands fails on old BSD systems

2014-12-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 18648 + wontfix stop On 10/07/2014 05:00 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Richard Hansen wrote: ... Digging around in various CVS/Subversion repositories, it looks like there are many old (but perhaps not yet museum-worthy) *BSD versions that behave this way: