Re: gnulib-tool: *** cannot find ./configure.ac

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to erobles on 9/17/2009 6:00 PM: > hi! > > I have downloaded gnulib through git and cvs, and i tried to > import getaddrinfo module, but i only got the message mentioned in the > subject: > > $ gnulib-tool --import getaddrinfo > >

gnulib-tool: *** cannot find ./configure.ac

2009-09-17 Thread erobles
hi! I have downloaded gnulib through git and cvs, and i tried to import getaddrinfo module, but i only got the message mentioned in the subject: $ gnulib-tool --import getaddrinfo gnulib-tool: *** cannot find ./configure.ac gnulib-tool: *** Stop. :-( Do you have any sample config

Re: time_t on NetBSD/i386

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible writes: > Yes. The naming of the variable 'long_int_year_and_yday_are_wide_enough' > sounds as if Paul intended to be able to pass time_t values into 'year1' > and 'yday1'. But this does not happen: all inputs are 'int'. Sorry about the long delay. It's been many years, but I think

Re: gnulib update breaks clisp: stdlib.h:189:5: error: #if with no expression

2009-09-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Sam Steingold wrote: > I updated clisp to the latest gnulib (to take advantage of the mktime fix) > and now build fails with this: > > ./stdlib.h:189:5: error: #if with no expression > > this comes from > > #if @GNULIB_MKOSTEMP@ > # if !...@have_mkostemp@ Looks like you regenerated stdlib.h wit

Re: time_t on NetBSD/i386

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> time_t is 64 bits in recent NetBSD versions even on i386 platform, >> >> therefore these assertations fail on it: >> >> >> >> in lib/mktime.c: >> >> verify (long_int_year_and_yday_are_wide_enough, >> >> INT_MAX <= LONG_MAX / 2 || TIME_T_MAX <= UIN

Re: time_t on NetBSD/i386

2009-09-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > >> time_t is 64 bits in recent NetBSD versions even on i386 platform, > >> therefore these assertations fail on it: > >> > >> in lib/mktime.c: > >> verify (long_int_year_and_yday_are_wide_enough, > >> INT_MAX <= LONG_MAX / 2 || TIME_T_MAX <= UINT_MAX); > > > > I'm disablin

gnulib update breaks clisp: stdlib.h:189:5: error: #if with no expression

2009-09-17 Thread Sam Steingold
I updated clisp to the latest gnulib (to take advantage of the mktime fix) and now build fails with this: ./stdlib.h:189:5: error: #if with no expression this comes from #if @GNULIB_MKOSTEMP@ # if !...@have_mkostemp@

Re: mingw remove bug

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > >> > Meanwhile, the rmdir-errno module, in use by coreutils until today, guessed >> > wrong for cross-compilation to Solaris (where rmdir fails with EEXIST, not >> > ENOTEMPTY, on a populated directory); now that coreutils no longer uses th

Re: improve unlink on Solaris

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > I'm working on a patch to fix unlink("file/") on Solaris 9. But as a > prerequisite (to avoid anyone corrupting their file system if running the unit > test as root, and accidentally unlinking an empty directory), I noticed that > mingw failed to compile unlinkdir.c due to a mi

Re: canonicalize-lgpl bug

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 9/16/2009 10:10 PM: >> According to Eric Blake on 9/16/2009 9:11 AM: I've reached this point in reading the patches. So far they look fine. I will read the remainder, and test tomorrow. >>> I'll try and rebase my series before then. >>

Re: License pedantry

2009-09-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Ian Beckwith wrote: > * Replaces incorrect FSF addresses with pointers to www.gnu.org/licenses. > (picked up by 'licensecheck', in the debian devscripts package). David, is the following change OK with you? Would you also accept to change the license mentioned in the header to say "GPL", like w

Re: License pedantry

2009-09-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ian, Ian Beckwith wrote: > I've recently adopted the Debian gnulib package. Welcome! It was a bit unfortunate that gnulib was "frozen" in Debian for about a year, although gnulib attempts to be constantly moving and improving. See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Steady-De

Re: time_t on NetBSD/i386

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > Hasso Tepper wrote: >> time_t is 64 bits in recent NetBSD versions even on i386 platform, >> therefore these assertations fail on it: >> >> in lib/mktime.c: >> verify (long_int_year_and_yday_are_wide_enough, >> INT_MAX <= LONG_MAX / 2 || TIME_T_MAX <= UINT_MAX); > > I'm di

Re: module Include: section

2009-09-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Include: > #include "file.h" > > but most just have: > > Include: > "file.h" The latter is a shorthand notation. In the beginning we didn't use the shorthand much. > > Any objections to a patch that normalizes the outliers to drop #include? > > As in the following? Looks a

Re: Two more happy users of gnulib

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
David Lutterkort wrote: > Just saw users.txt and thought it'd be nice to add augeas and netcf to > the list. Thanks! I pushed that with a tweak to use netcf's http:// rather than https:// address. ... > + netcf https://fedorahosted.org/netcf/ >newts http://svn.arete.cc/ne

Two more happy users of gnulib

2009-09-17 Thread David Lutterkort
Just saw users.txt and thought it'd be nice to add augeas and netcf to the list. David >From 1d174e8d36fc605e34ca84ac402f38e59d35e146 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Lutterkort Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:17:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * users.txt: add augeas and netcf --- users.txt |2 ++

Re: module Include: section

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > >> Any objections to a patch that normalizes the outliers to drop #include? > > As in the following? > >>From 2655892372305598ee062e56f30b01c7d90ea178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eric Blake > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:49:36 -0600 > Subject:

Re: module Include: section

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > Any objections to a patch that normalizes the outliers to drop #include? As in the following? >From 2655892372305598ee062e56f30b01c7d90ea178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:49:36 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] maint: make Include sectio

Re: License pedantry

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ian Beckwith on 9/17/2009 6:51 AM: > Hi, > > I've recently adopted the Debian gnulib package. Our argument has been that gnulib is for developers, and probably should not be distributed as a package. Read gnulib-intro.texi for why we th

License pedantry

2009-09-17 Thread Ian Beckwith
Hi, I've recently adopted the Debian gnulib package. Documenting the copyright and licenses of all the files (a tedious but (currently) necessary process), I spotted a few extremely minor issues, and ran into a few things I'd like clarifying. The attached patch: * Replaces incorrect FSF address

module Include: section

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some modules have: Include: #include "file.h" but most just have: Include: "file.h" Any objections to a patch that normalizes the outliers to drop #include? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu

Re: canonicalize-lgpl bug

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
According to Eric Blake on 9/16/2009 10:10 PM: > According to Eric Blake on 9/16/2009 9:11 AM: >>> I've reached this point in reading the patches. >>> So far they look fine. >>> I will read the remainder, and test tomorrow. >> I'll try and rebase my series before then. > > Now rebased: > > git pu

Re: time_t on NetBSD/i386

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 9/17/2009 1:38 AM: > Here is a proposed patch. I checked all uses of 'time_t' in getdate.y and > found only two conversions from time_t to 'long int', in the 'relunit' rule: > > | tSDECIMAL_NUMBER tSEC_UNIT > { $$

Re: time_t on NetBSD/i386

2009-09-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Hasso Tepper wrote: > time_t is 64 bits in recent NetBSD versions even on i386 platform, > therefore these assertations fail on it: > > in lib/mktime.c: > verify (long_int_year_and_yday_are_wide_enough, > INT_MAX <= LONG_MAX / 2 || TIME_T_MAX <= UINT_MAX); I'm disabling this assertion; the c