Re: dealing with verbose programs

2007-09-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karl Berry wrote: >> A wild thought: what if gnulib-tool saved its output during a run, and >> then presented a *diff* of the new output and the old output? I at >> least would find that considerably more readable. >> >> (Along with a mention of the file w

Re: dealing with verbose programs (was: Re: new module 'calloc-posix')

2007-09-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > A wild thought: what if gnulib-tool saved its output during a run, and > then presented a *diff* of the new output and the old output? I at > least would find that considerably more readable. > > (Along with a mention of the file where the full output can be found, of > course

Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-04 Thread Karl Berry
Currently, gnulib-tool emits so much output that a few new diagnostics may easily go by unnoticed. Indeed. A wild thought: what if gnulib-tool saved its output during a run, and then presented a *diff* of the new output and the old output? I at least would find that considerably more rea

Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > Haven't we implicitly been assuming/providing malloc-gnu since day 1? > Do we really need to force all gnulib users ('cause pretty much everyone > needs malloc, after all) to educate themselves about the issue and make > a choice? Can we just keep malloc a

Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix

2007-09-04 Thread Martin Koeppe
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Adding gnulib: this thread started at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5717] thanks for the link and for pointing out the existence of AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. I think this is the

Re: new module 'calloc-posix'

2007-09-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > > I guess the module rename would make it obvious to anyone using the old > > 'malloc' module that they now need to choose which semantics they want, > > the simpler 'malloc-gnu' or the POSIX-compliant 'malloc-posix'. > > Haven't we implicitly b