bug#68274: automake 1.16j nonnumerical version confuses scripts

2024-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 06 Jan 2024 15:37, Karl Berry wrote: > Automake and other packages have used letters for pretests for decades, true ... > and it's not plausible to change now. eh ? there is nothing requiring or restricting the current version behavior other than "it's always been this way". but that doesn'

bug#62069: Support xz parallel compression in dist-xz

2024-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 09 Mar 2023 08:47, Sam James wrote: > xz supports parallel compression which obviously speeds up > the time taken to run the 'dist-xz' rule, but it also > speeds up *decompression* too, as the parallel compressor > creates different output which can be decompressed in parallel. > > There's two

bug#54020: Allow user-defined libtool options

2024-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 15 Mar 2023 17:31, Bogdan wrote: > Another patch from my side. This one makes it possible for users to > pass additional options to libtool in 'compile' mode. Fixes #54020. > > Added documentation and a test case including the '-no-suppress' > option. All tests with 'lt' or 'libtool' in t

bug#8362: make install prefix inserted in source code with generated python files

2024-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 21 Mar 2023 23:05, Bogdan wrote: > Third, and most important (I think) is that we need to note that > "prog/x.py" is GENERATED, but is NOT marked so. Adding > > BUILT_SOURCES = prog/x.py i don't think this is a correct use of BUILT_SOURCES. https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual