Re: hello-2.1.91 and CR/LF

2006-08-29 Thread Karl Berry
> Can we easily get cat>foo (or some equivalent) to produce CRLF files? I guess I meant, "can we get cat>foo (or some equivalent)" to produce CRLF files *when hello does*. That is, to get some standard command to operate in text mode under mingw[/cygwin/whatever]. Does echo also operate in b

Re: coreutils-6.0 on BeOS (9)

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Compiling the current coreutils CVS on MacOS X 10.3.9 now gives this error: > > stat.c: In function `print_statfs': > stat.c:416: error: incompatible types in initialization Thanks for reporting this. Oops, this is another MacOS problem (I got misled by

proposal for gpl module

2006-08-29 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
I saw the fdl module, which is nice because my GNU project GMediaServer uses fdl.texi in its documentation. It however also uses gpl.texi, which is why I propose this module. 2006-08-29 Oskar Liljeblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modules/gpl: New module, for grabbing gpl.texi * MODULE

Re: coreutils-6.0: numerous test failures on MacOS X

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Single-stepping with "next" yields a loop in tail.c: This is because 'tail' is confused again about the distinction between pipes and sockets. This is a bit of a can of worms (it was the topic of a discussion on the Open Group a while ago, so I knew abo

Re: gnulib-tool: new option --makefile-name

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was interested in trying out the new config-h module. But it only > works when using gnulib-tool --import/--update; the sed expression > is not applied for files copied manually using --extract* > information. That sounds like a bug, both for the gettex

Re: hello-2.1.91 and CR/LF

2006-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:31:37PM CEST: > > However, on MinGW all three tests fail because the program outputs CRLF > > line endings, while the test suite creates files with LF ending. > > Um, why? That is, why does cat>foo produce LF files while hello>foo

Re: gnulib-tool: new option --makefile-name

2006-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
Bruno Haible clisp.org> writes: > > While doing the coreutils changes, Paul found the answer to the long-standing > question how gnulib-tool could be used without requiring a lib/ directory of > its own and while still maintaining a clear separation between hand-maintained > files and autogenera

Re: proposed gnulib module 'configmake', plus use by 'localcharset'

2006-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:55:19PM CEST: > > Even if there is a tiny efficiency gain (I don't see it), > such a change would feel like obfuscation. Never mind, I was hallucinating again. Sorry 'bout that, Ralf

Re: typo in error module

2006-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > > Meanwhile, is this patch acceptable, which updates the _LIBC > > > portions of the error module to resemble CVS glibc more closely, so > > > that I have fewer spurious diffs to filter through? > > > > Yes, and thanks for doing some of this (normally-thankless) t

Re: proposed gnulib module 'configmake', plus use by 'localcharset'

2006-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jim, > > * Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:52:02PM CEST: >> >> Here's one more little change I've applied. Without it, rerunning >> coreutils' bootstrap and building would not update a stale copy of >> configmake.h, containing the no

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Question to the autoconf experts: Is it possible to write a macro > > > AM_GETTEXT_NEED_NGETTEXT such that whenever a user writes > > >AM_GETTEXT_NEED_NGETTEXT > > >AM_GNU_GETTEXT > > > or > > >AM_GNU_GETTEXT > > >AM_GETTEXT_NEED_NGETTEXT > > > the AM_GN

Re: proposed gnulib module 'configmake', plus use by 'localcharset'

2006-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:52:02PM CEST: > > Here's one more little change I've applied. Without it, rerunning > coreutils' bootstrap and building would not update a stale copy of > configmake.h, containing the now-invalid CONFIGMAKE_ prefixes. > -configmake.h: >

Re: proposed gnulib module 'configmake', plus use by 'localcharset'

2006-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your suggestions, which were all right on the money. > I installed the following patch, which incorporates them. > > 2006-08-29 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * modules/configmake (Makefile.am): Add a comment, and omit > the CON

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: proposed gnulib module 'configmake', plus use by 'localcharset'

2006-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
> + echo '#define LIBDIR "$(libdir)"'; \ Thanks. I now did this change. 2006-08-29 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modules/localcharset (Depends-on): Add configmake. (Makefile.am): Remove setting of LIBDIR through DEFS. * lib/localcharset.c: Include configmake.

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 04:34:01PM CEST: > Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Question to the autoconf experts: Is it possible to write a macro > > AM_GETTEXT_NEED_NGETTEXT such that whenever a user writes > >AM_GETTEXT_NEED_NGETTEXT > >AM_GNU_GETTEXT > > o

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>glibc2.m4 intdiv0.m4 inttypes-h.m4 inttypes-pri.m4 lcmessage.m4 >>lock.m4 printf-posix.m4 size_max.m4 uintmax_t.m4 ulonglong.m4 >>visibility.m4 xsize.m4 > > Assuming aclocal-1.9 or newer, I think we could remove these files > from the modules/

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: proposed gnulib module 'configmake', plus use by 'localcharset'

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for your suggestions, which were all right on the money. I installed the following patch, which incorporates them. 2006-08-29 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modules/configmake (Makefile.am): Add a comment, and omit the CONFIGMAKE_ prefix from generated macro names. Su

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > what is the > recommended way to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], ...), gnulib-tool, > and autopoint/autoreconf in such a way that you don't get the > following files into your m4 directory afterwards? > >glibc2.m4 intdiv0.m4 inttypes-h.m4 inttypes-pri.m4 lcmessage.m4 >l

Re: rewritten inttypes module

2006-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > It seems a bit cleaner to me to have > the inttypes module be the only module that needs to figure out > the absolute name of . Maybe a bit cleaner, but also a little more complex... But I don't mind. Both codes look equally safe. Bruno

Re: rewritten inttypes module

2006-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > Bootstrapping coreutils found one minor glitch: inttypes now relies on > gl_HEADER_INTTYPES_H indirectly via gt_INTTYPES_PRI but doesn't list > the file containing it. Thanks for noticing it! It was certainly not intended. I'll clean it up. > While we're on the subject we sho

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: proposed gnulib module 'configmake', plus use by 'localcharset'

2006-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > 2006-08-25 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > New configmake module, so that "make" output needn't be cluttered > by fluff like '-DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\"'. > * modules/configmake: New file. IMO it would be useful to add comments that tell: - Why does