bug#13351: [IMPORTANT] Dropping support for split '.info' files in mainline Automake

2013-01-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 03/01/2013 21:53, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: > Severity: wishlist > > [This is posted also to the automake and texinfo lists to ensure > a wider audience. Discussion should continue exclusively on the > bug-automake list, to avoid a cross-posting flood] > > Automake-generated have for a

bug#9026: [PATCH] aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable

2011-09-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/20/2011 02:09 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Yeah, I think the problem is that in the normal search path (from `aclocal -I /foo -I /bar'): 1. `/foo' 2. `/bar' 3. ACDIR-APIVERSION 4. ACDIR The directories from dirlist and ACLOCAL_PATH should go after (3), rather than after

bug#9026: [PATCH] aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable

2011-09-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/20/2011 12:51 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Yes (and that's on purpose: ACLOCAL_PATH is typically used by a user > which has newer versions of libraries installed, so they need their > directories to override everything). Yes, this might be desirable. But then, for consistency sake, s

bug#9026: [PATCH] aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable

2011-09-19 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 18:39, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Just to be sure, you are not including >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00091.html >> are you? >> > No, not yet at least. > > Because, if I'm not reading it wrong (which I might be doing in fact, since > I'v

Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup

2009-07-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
I'll take this up with bug-make. Thank you again for bringing it up. GCC has this: # write_entries_to_file - writes each entry in a list # to the specified file. Entries are written in chunks of # $(write_entries_to_file_split) to accomodate systems with # severe command-line-length limitatio