bug#29376: automake gnits version check vs. gnulib's git-version-gen?

2018-01-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Paul Eggert writes: > On 11/20/2017 11:44 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> So my question: aren't 3-level version strings allowed by the gnits check >> in combination with gnulib's git-version-gen script?  Do we have to >> change >> the strictness from gnits to gnu? > > I would think so, unless som

bug#29638: Same five tests fail with 1.15 on RHEL 7.4

2018-01-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Eric Blake writes: > On 01/04/2018 07:49 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > >> for example from Automake 1.15.1 build directory the following command >> is supposed to work: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> $ t/wrap/automake-1.15 --vers >> automake (GNU automak

bug#29188: Test suite failures on macOS High Sierra 10.13

2018-01-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello, Barry Anderson writes: > FAIL: t/distcheck-override-infodir > == > > distcheck-override-infodir: running makeinfo --version > makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8 All the build failures are related to the same issue caused by some command line handling from this old

bug#29638: Same five tests fail with 1.15 on RHEL 7.4

2018-01-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/04/2018 07:49 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > for example from Automake 1.15.1 build directory the following command > is supposed to work: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ t/wrap/automake-1.15 --vers > automake (GNU automake) 1.15.1 > Copyright (C) 2017

bug#23742: [PROPOSED PATCH] vala: add support for Genie .gs files

2018-01-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Chris, Mathieu Lirzin writes: > Chris Daley writes: > >> The Vala compiler also supports a language called Genie, which is >> very similar to Python but compiles down to C in the same way that >> Vala does. Genie files can be mixed with Vala files on the command >> line. >> >> https://wik

bug#29638: Same five tests fail with 1.15 on RHEL 7.4

2018-01-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello, Dennis Clarke writes: > The same five tests fail for automake 1.15 and 1.15.1 on RHEL 7.4. Also > the testsuite itself reports mysterious "Error 1" and "Error 2" upon > termination and that looks questionable : > > ==

bug#29987: Problem when testing 'makeinfo' date output with 'date'

2018-01-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
When Running the test suite soon after midnight with CET time zone the "t/txinfo-vtexi4.sh" test fails. "LC_ALL=C date" outputs the locale time whereas makeinfo use UTC timezone. --8<---cut here---start->8--- mthl@localhost:~/src/automake$ date --version date

bug#29178: Failure to build automake > 11

2018-01-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello, carl hansen writes: >> >> Ah, that looks like it could be the culprit: >> >> ig25@linux-d6cw:~/Downloads/automake-1.15> t/wrap/automake-1.15 --help >> Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE >> in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at >> /home/ig25/Download