bug#14337: Acknowledgement (Nothing to be done for `base.log'.)

2013-05-03 Thread Bruce Korb
On 05/03/13 02:27, Stefano Lattarini wrote: retitle 14337 Uncleer error messages when a test script is missing severity 14337 minor tags 14337 wontfix thanks Meets _my_ expectation... :) Never mind. I think the test driver code should say something useful, however. I neglected to notice tha

bug#14337: Acknowledgement (Nothing to be done for `base.log'.)

2013-05-02 Thread Bruce Korb
Never mind. I think the test driver code should say something useful, however. I neglected to notice that EXTRA_DIST should include $(TESTS) or the tests won't get rolled into the tarball. test -f $test_file || { echo cannot find $test_file ; exit 1 } 1>&2 On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:59:02PM +00

bug#14337: Nothing to be done for `base.log'.

2013-05-02 Thread Bruce Korb
On 05/02/13 16:58, Bruce Korb wrote: Help, please? P.S. this only happens for srcdir != builddir builds and the xtrace output below is triggered by manually inserting "set -x" into the $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): rule. === $ make check [.] >bash> make

bug#14337: Nothing to be done for `base.log'.

2013-05-02 Thread Bruce Korb
It's taken me a few hours to unwind all this stuff, but the bottom line seems to be that "make check" doesn't think it needs to do anything to make the test log file. Googling for: "making test-suite.log: failed to create" log "nothing to be done for" did not yield any useful hints. Help, plea

bug#12164: What is the right way to specify -Wno-format-contains-nul?

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, It seems that AM_PROG_CC likes to default CFLAGS to "-g -Wall" and COMPILE puts CFLAGS at the end of the option list. That means that -Wall over-rides my AM_CFLAGS setting and chokes and dies. My library uses a large array of bytes to hold many strings, some of which are formatting strings a

bug#10930: touching dependency files, take 2

2012-03-02 Thread Bruce Korb
This is a autoconf, automake and make question, rebuffed in gnulib. It's partly autoconf because autoconf stages dummy dependency files so the make include function won't choke. It is partly make because I find it a bit tricky getting the dependencies just right. It is, I think, mostly an automa

bug#9933: ylwrap bug

2011-11-01 Thread Bruce Korb
On 11/01/11 09:22, Stefano Lattarini wrote: AM_LFLAGS = @LEX_FL@ --header-file=$(LEX_HEADER) -DYY_NO_INPUT=1 So ylwrap fires off the flex program and it runs just fine, the tiny problem is that it also removes the temporary directory before I can salvage the generated header. This is inconv

bug#7860: recursive autoreconf breaks AM_COND_IF conditionalization of AC_CONFIG_FILES

2011-01-19 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Ralf, Dave, 5.11.5 was released December 13 and does not have this problem. Thanks for letting me know!! Regards, Bruce On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > diff -ru am-libopts-subpkg/subproj/libopts/m4/liboptschk.m4 > am-libopts-subpkg/subproj/libopts/m4/liboptschk.m