Re: [bug-libunistring] two ways to use submodules for gnulib

2009-04-29 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> 1) What are git submodules? I've read [2], and I think the purpose of git >submodules is to reference particular versions (tags) in other, public >git trees. Right? Yes with s/tags/commits/. > 2) It is pointless to make a reference to a non-public commit in a another >git reposito

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.2.66-428db1

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Elbert_Pol wrote: > On 29-04-09 08:39, Jim Meyering wrote: > Hello Jim, > Use Os2 and Gcc 4.4 > > Thankz for newer build. > When i do make it fails @ this point in 3 files.. > signbitl.c:27: error: expected identifier or '(' before '{' token > > This is same for the file: > signbitf.c and signbitd.

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Matthew Woehlke on 4/29/2009 1:07 PM: FYI: adding the autoconf check to turn on c99 mode is broken; autoconf picks up -qlanglvl=ansi from the ANSI c89 check, and doesn't know how to try alternatives (this affects other GNU packages as well, most notably coreutil

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-autoconf] According to Matthew Woehlke on 4/29/2009 1:07 PM: >> Typically, -qlanglvl=extc99 is a better choice for GNU software. > > I tried that also, but it results in configure picking '-qlanglvl=extc99 > -qlanglvl=ansi', which presuma

Re: [bug-libunistring] two ways to use submodules for gnulib

2009-04-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paolo, Paolo Bonzini wrote in [1]: > > Another problem: can you please switch to submodules for gnulib? 3 questions: 1) What are git submodules? I've read [2], and I think the purpose of git submodules is to reference particular versions (tags) in other, public git trees. Right? 2) I

maint.mk

2009-04-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
I'm delighted to see that maint.mk has now been fully merged into gnulib by Jim (at least, from a cursory reading of coreutils's logs). Naturally I shall credit this achievement to myself, under the heading of "tactical ineptitude". Seriously, thanks Jim and anyone else who was involved. -- ht

Re: m4 licensing

2009-04-29 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Eric, You're too fast :). Should we go ahead and modify all of gnulib's m4/*.m4 scripts to add that sentence? You mean the copyright notices in the scripts themselves? Sure, it's fine to do so, but it's nothing urgent, now or ever, as mentioned at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licens

Re: GNU libunistring 0.9 released

2009-04-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ re-adding bug-gnulib ] * Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:44:43AM CEST: > > Then, with a VPATH build from git, the libunistring.sym file is updated > > in the build tree but searched in the source tree, here's part of the > > make output: > > ... > > join: ../../libunistring/lib/lib

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I haven't followed this thread, so bear with me, please. No worries :-). It looks like you noticed everything that is gnulib-related. * Matthew Woehlke wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:09:51PM CEST: For now I'm just going to use 'CC="cc -qlanglvl=stdc99"'. I don't know

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Matthew, I haven't followed this thread, so bear with me, please. * Matthew Woehlke wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:09:51PM CEST: > For now I'm just going to use 'CC="cc -qlanglvl=stdc99"'. I don't know > how hard you want to try to make this work out of the box, but the > previous cha

m4 licensing

2009-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
Based on the recent change to standards.texi: | @@ -765,7 +765,8 @@ all-permissive license like this one: | @smallexample | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | -notice and this notice are pre

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: For now I'm just going to use 'CC="cc -qlanglvl=stdc99"'. ...which also fails (different problem): source='regex.c' object='regex.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../build-aux/depcomp \ cc -qlanglvl=stdc99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../lib

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paolo Bonzini wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Paolo Bonzini wrote: I placed a prerelease on ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.1e.tar.gz and I would like as many people as possible to test it on various architectures and operating systems. This is the first fully gnulib-ized version of sed. It s

Re: [bug-libunistring] two ways to use submodules for gnulib

2009-04-29 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Thanks for your writeup on how to use git submodules for gnulib. > Is there already some > instructions about this in gnulib somewhere? No, I don't think so, but there should be! The only disadvantage is that bootstrap will not perform a shallow clone of gnulib, but ra

Re: [bug-libunistring] two ways to use submodules for gnulib

2009-04-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
This is from the libunistring originally, but I have a gnulib related request... Paolo Bonzini writes: > Another problem: can you please switch to submodules for gnulib? Thanks for your writeup on how to use git submodules for gnulib. I'm going to experiment using it (and the bootstrap script)

Re: [PATCH] New sol10priv module

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > David Bartley wrote: >> The following patches for coreutils and gnulib add a new Solaris 10 >> privilege module as previously suggested [1]. > > Hi David, > > Thanks for following through. > Are you up to the task of making a few more changes? > >

Re: [PATCH] New sol10priv module

2009-04-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello David, Thank you for your module, and your patience regarding the paperwork. David Bartley wrote: > The following patches for coreutils and gnulib add a new Solaris 10 > privilege module Five small remarks about the module: 1) In the module description: > +lib/sol10priv.h > +lib/sol10pri

Re: [PATCH] New sol10priv module

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Meyering
David Bartley wrote: > The following patches for coreutils and gnulib add a new Solaris 10 > privilege module as previously suggested [1]. Hi David, Thanks for following through. Are you up to the task of making a few more changes? - n

[PATCH] New sol10priv module

2009-04-29 Thread David Bartley
Hi Jim, The following patches for coreutils and gnulib add a new Solaris 10 privilege module as previously suggested [1]. -- David [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-03/msg00123.html From e67022be8d312fec0fa7619c65b9070171041c4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bartley Da

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> I placed a prerelease on ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.1e.tar.gz >> and I would like as many people as possible to test it on various >> architectures and operating systems. This is the first fully >> gnulib-ized version of sed. > > It seems to