Re: frexpl bugs remain on OS X 10.5 intel

2008-01-25 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, On 25 Jan 2008, at 20:03, Bruno Haible wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Can you verify that the configure file, when doing the "whether frexpl works" check, runs a program that includes the /* Test on denormalized numbers. */ section? It doesn't. Then your configure file was built f

Re: signbit glitch (coreutils 6.10, Solaris 8 sparc, GCC 4.2.2)

2008-01-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > I ran into the following minor glitch when compiling coreutils 6.10 on > Solaris 8 sparc with GCC 4.2.2: > > vasnprintf.c: In function 'vasnprintf': > vasnprintf.c:2196: warning: implicit declaration of function 'signbit' Thanks for reporting this. > Here is a patch to the g

Re: config.guess and $CC

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Garret
On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: James Youngman wrote: Maybe to save diagnostic effort in other quarters we should issue a warning for the benefit of maintainers when we're overriding the output of "uname -m". One could hope that such warning messages would get included

Re: config.guess and $CC

2008-01-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Ron Garret wrote: > The fundamental problem is that uname -m does not and CAN not contain > enough information to decide which architecture to build for, because > on a biarch system there are three different possibilities (32-bit, 64- > bit and fat binary), and which one is right depends on t

Re: config.guess and $CC

2008-01-25 Thread James Youngman
On Jan 25, 2008 11:30 PM, Ron Garret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that something very fundamental is being overlooked: if > one compiles to 64-bit on a machine where uname -m outputs i386, that > is *not* "overriding" uname -m. The i386 architecture is NOT a 32-bit > architecture, a

Re: config.guess and $CC

2008-01-25 Thread Peter O'Gorman
James Youngman wrote: > Maybe to save diagnostic effort in other quarters we should issue a > warning for the benefit of maintainers when we're overriding the > output of "uname -m". One could hope that such warning messages would > get included in people's bug reports. There is an argument for

Prefer over "config.h". See autoconf doc for explanation.

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, a couple uses of "config.h" snuck in. I've just converted them: diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a8718ea..91f57ae 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-01-25 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + Prefer over "config.h". See autoconf doc for explanation.

Re: frexpl bugs remain on OS X 10.5 intel

2008-01-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > Can you verify that the configure file, when doing the "whether > > frexpl works" > > check, runs a program that includes the > > /* Test on denormalized numbers. */ > > section? > > It doesn't. Then your configure file was built from outdated .m4 files. Maybe your

Re: config.guess and $CC

2008-01-25 Thread James Youngman
On Jan 24, 2008 12:08 AM, Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) On MacOS X 10.5 systems, "uname -m" returns "i386". But the system is > 64-bit, and "gcc -m64" generates x86_64 programs that run perfectly fine > natively. > > A user on such a platform struggled for *hours* to get a program co

Re: sockets

2008-01-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Simon Josefsson on 1/24/2008 7:58 AM: > | Since there weren't any other comments after close to a week, and the > | 'sockets' module doesn't affect anyone that isn't strictly using it, I > | have committed the patch below. > | > | + * tests/t