Re: work in progress code - how to publish?

Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Jim, Eric, et al., > > The ACL support code for AIX 5 currently has just #if 0 stubs. On 2008-12-07, > I wrote some work-in-progress code for AIX 5 ACLs (function aclx_get etc.). > The code is not finished. IIRC, the test suite does not pass. > > Unfortunately I cannot cont

Re: update-copyright local hook

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 8/14/2009 1:11 PM: >> Hmm. VC_LIST_EXCEPT excludes ChangeLog by default, but this is one case >> where >> we WANT ChangeLog's copyright updated along with everything else. Also, I >> think we should be exempting all form

Re: definition of NULL

Hi, I wrote: > In m4/locale_h.m4 it's a waste of configure time to check for the include_next > support of locale.h if it's not going to be replaced. I would keep doing > gl_CHECK_NEXT_HEADERS([locale.h]) > conditionally. > > Likewise for m4/stddef_h.m4 and m4/wchar.m4. The part for m4/wchar.m

work in progress code - how to publish?

Hi Jim, Eric, et al., The ACL support code for AIX 5 currently has just #if 0 stubs. On 2008-12-07, I wrote some work-in-progress code for AIX 5 ACLs (function aclx_get etc.). The code is not finished. IIRC, the test suite does not pass. Unfortunately I cannot continue working on this code (*). B

Re: test-update-copyright requires perl

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > I just noticed a problem. update-copyright is a perl script only intended for > maintainer use And we ought to support some form of 'build-aux/update-copyright --help' (and also --version), per GNU Coding Standards, before shipping packages with the update-c

test-update-copyright requires perl

I just noticed a problem. update-copyright is a perl script only intended for maintainer use, which is fine, since only maintainers are required to have perl installed (after all, we already know that maintainers have perl by virtue of the fact that they are running autoconf). But, as explicit

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

Joel E. Denny wrote: > I just realized I don't know how to configure update-copyright permanently > for a project. The following patch gives me a way. Pushed. I'll certainly be using that.

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Thanks. Here's a patch to help those who don't want to wait until January > > to reformat. > > Heh ;-) I'm not sure you're excited enough. :-) > Good addition. Pushed. Thanks. I just realized I don't know how to configure update-copyright perman

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

Joel E. Denny wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: >> > Below are some patches to implement that. >> ... >> > +2009-08-14 Joel E. Denny >> > + >> > + update-copyright: convert 2-digit to 4-digit years >> > + * build-aux/update-copyright: Implement and document. >> > + * tests/tes

Re: update-copyright local hook

Eric Blake wrote: > Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: >> +# If you have an additional project-specific rule, >> +# define it in cfg.mk and set this variable to its name. >> +update-copyright-local ?= >> + >> .PHONY: update-copyright >> -update-copyright: >> +update-copyright: $(update-copyright-

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Below are some patches to implement that. > ... > > +2009-08-14 Joel E. Denny > > + > > + update-copyright: convert 2-digit to 4-digit years > > + * build-aux/update-copyright: Implement and document. > > + * tests/test-update-copyright.sh: Upd

Re: simple multithread program fails on Cygwin, succeeds on Linux

> 2009-08-12 Bruno Haible > > Disable multithread support by default on Cygwin 1.5.x. > * m4/threadlib.m4 (gl_THREADLIB_EARLY_BODY): On Cygwin 1.5.x and older, > set gl_use_threads=no if not specified otherwise. This patch did not have the intended effect. I'm applying this f

Re: update-copyright local hook

Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > > +# If you have an additional project-specific rule, > +# define it in cfg.mk and set this variable to its name. > +update-copyright-local ?= > + > .PHONY: update-copyright > -update-copyright: > +update-copyright: $(update-copyright-local) I'm wondering i

Re: more version-etc test fixes

Eric Blake writes: > Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > >> > + -e 's/\r//g' | >> >> I'm not sure that sed s/\r//g is portable. You may have to resort to tr >> instead. > > It's not (Solaris /bin/sed treats it like sed 's/\\r//g', looking for a > 2-byte > literal backslash and r sequence, rath

Re: git format-patch on .texi

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 8/13/2009 7:17 AM: > It might actually be better to introduce a custom diff attribute for .texi > files, that gives better 'git diff' and 'git format-patch' listings I've gone ahead and pushed this patch. - -- Don't work to

Re: definition of NULL

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 8/13/2009 7:04 AM: > Oh, good point. I've included in the patch refresh. > > I still need time to test on my NetBSD access point. Now tested, with success, so I've pushed the patch. Also, I've filed a report to the NetBS

Re: Tests failing to build with external getttext

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:33:58PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Thanks for the report. This should fix it: > Thanks. Unfortunately another one just turned up: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -L/usr/tgcware/lib -Wl,-R,/usr/tgcware/lib -Wl,-z,ignore -o test-getopt test-getopt.o ../gllib/libgnu.a -lm Undef

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

Joel E. Denny wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Eric Blake wrote: ... >> According to Akim Demaille on 8/13/2009 1:59 AM: >> >> - Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2006, 2008-2009 Free Software >> >> - Foundation, Inc. >> >> + Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2006, 2008-2009 Free Software >> >> Founda