Re: xstrtol.h

2007-07-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, Jim Meyering wrote on Sunday: > +2007-07-22 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > + > + Make some invalid-integer diagnostics easier to translate properly. > + * src/system.h (OPT_STR): Define. > + (opt_str): New function. > + * src/od.c (main): Declare new local, oi. > +

Re: preferred copyright notice?

2007-07-25 Thread Karl Berry
You did not fix the punctuation in maintain.texi consistently. Thanks. Maybe I got it right this time ...

Re: Minor glitches with `announce-gen'

2007-07-25 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > The `NEWS' parsing routine in `announce-gen' seems to be over-specified > in that it expects lines introducing a new version to match > "\* (?:Noteworthy|Major) change". AFAICS, this is not too common practice > among GNU packages: GnuTLS uses "* Versio

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-25 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:24:56AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > That leaves the question > > whether the much less intrusive: > > off_t cur_pos; > > cur_pos = ftello(stdio); > > lseek(fileno(stdin), cur_pos, SEEK_SET); > > isn't a much better solution? > > No, because now that the posi

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Joerg Sonnenberger on 7/25/2007 7:10 AM: > > Given that fflush has to defined meaning for read descriptors, this does > not apply (yet). Doing this for buffered reads is bogus as it makes a > lot of optimisations impossible and effectivel

Minor glitches with `announce-gen'

2007-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, The `NEWS' parsing routine in `announce-gen' seems to be over-specified in that it expects lines introducing a new version to match "\* (?:Noteworthy|Major) change". AFAICS, this is not too common practice among GNU packages: GnuTLS uses "* Version X.Y.Z (released -MM-DD)", Guile uses "Ch

Re: preferred copyright notice?

2007-07-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 7/24/2007 7:28 AM: > Hi Eric, > > Is it "free software:" or "free software;"? > > : seems better to me. You did not fix the punctuation in maintain.texi consistently. The first example still uses: "is free software

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-25 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:27:26AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Joerg Sonnenberger on 7/25/2007 4:49 AM: > >> GNU M4 relies on POSIX behavior in the stdio library in order to comply > >> with POSIX requirements on its own behavior. > >

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Joerg Sonnenberger on 7/25/2007 4:49 AM: >> GNU M4 relies on POSIX behavior in the stdio library in order to comply >> with POSIX requirements on its own behavior. > > To quote SUSv3: > > If stream points to an output stream or an update

[patch] make acl support optional

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
posted this to the coreutils a list sometime ago ... idea is to be able to disable automatic ACL detection via --disable-acl since this can often times take the form of an external library rather than part of the system libc. patch was originally written/tested against coreutils-6.9 and ive forw

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-25 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
[I'm sorry that the original mail was a bit aggressive, but finding out why a working implementation of a function is replaced in the maze of autoconf macros is not a good base for nice chatting]. On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:44:31PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > GNU M4 relies on POSIX behavior in the

Re: recent changes to gnulib stdio_.h break build on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0

2007-07-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Peter's patch works perfectly fine Thanks to both of you. I changed the AC_LINK_IFELSE to an AC_COMPILE_IFELSE and added stricter check that it really works. Also I changed the indentation to match gnulib style. Tested: - GNU C -> yes - OSF/1 "cc"-