Re: first draft of "relocatable" module

Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tend to just use --prefix=$HOME/inst$$. and then later: > Here's some suggested wording then: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I strongly recommend you use /nonexistent instead of $HOME. If $HOME > is behind an NFS automounter, and your pr

Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

configure, make, etc. operations should be remove by "make maintainer-clean". It occurs to me that perhaps it is desirable to split maintainer-clean (keep it as it is) and (say) bootstrap-clean after all. I can imagine, as a maintainer, wanting to rm everything *except* the bootstrap stuff -

Re: --version output change proposal

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: > rms and I have been batting around the --version output stuff. > Here's what we seem to be settling on: > > sort (GNU coreutils) 6.4 > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later

Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: > The only reason maintainer-clean typically has not removed files like > configure and Makefile.am is that they have been (until relatively > recently) version controlled. > > That doesn't seem quite right to me. Makefile.am is typically Whoops.

--version output change proposal

rms and I have been batting around the --version output stuff. Here's what we seem to be settling on: sort (GNU coreutils) 6.4 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later This is free software: you are free to change an

Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

The only reason maintainer-clean typically has not removed files like configure and Makefile.am is that they have been (until relatively recently) version controlled. That doesn't seem quite right to me. Makefile.am is typically version-controlled and always has been; furthermore, con

Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: ... >> A missing feature: files supplied by gnulib-tool should be >> removed by "make maintainer-clean". If gnulib-tool doesn't >> do that soon, I'll be changing bootstrap to do it. > > It belongs in gnulib-tool, so please change gnulib

Re: warning in at-func.c

Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On MacOS X, we have this warning during the compilation of fchownat.c: > > at-func.c:39: warning: implicit declaration of function `lchown' > > The reason is that lchown() is not available on this system and therefore > not declared in . This pr