Re: [PATCH 00/15] Add libunistring-optional module

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi all, On 2010-05-25, I wrote: > Since that change, that introduced the m4/libunistring-base.m4 file, > users of libunistring modules from gnulib *must* use the automake option > 'subdir-objects'. Ralf and I investigated this issue and found out [1][2] that there's simply no reasonable way to ma

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/03/2010 12:59 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> I just updated gnulib in libguestfs. This pulls in gettext 0.18 -- I >> don't directly depend on the gettext module in gnulib, but doubtless >> it's being pulled in as a dependency of something. >> >> There's no gettext 0.1

source builds vs. RPMs (was: Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles)

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Well OK - I was trying to build an RPM from the existing Fedora > > Rawhide spec If the Fedora 'maintainer' for gettext has not provided an RPM in a month - the Debian 'maintainer' for gettext has delivered his package on May 18 -, you can certainly jump in and do the

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paolo, > Requiring gettext in quotearg-tests looks a bit heavyweight though... It is needed for complete testing of the 'quotearg' module. We want the complete test in testdirs created by "gnulib-tool --create-testdir ... quotearg ...". But I agree: In an average package that imports the 'quo

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:40:40PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Non-trivial to build? It is essential for GNU packages to be buildable > > with "configure && make && make install". Did you try that? It does have > > some depend

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:40:40PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Non-trivial to build? It is essential for GNU packages to be buildable > with "configure && make && make install". Did you try that? It does have > some dependencies, but you should be able to install these dependencies > with a packag

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I just updated gnulib in libguestfs. This pulls in gettext 0.18 -- I > don't directly depend on the gettext module in gnulib, but doubtless > it's being pulled in as a dependency of something. > > There's no gettext 0.18 in Fedora, even in Rawhide, and it seems > non-tr

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:13:32PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> There aren't many modules that depend on gettext >> >> $ grep -x gettext * >> acl:gettext >> bison-i18n:gettext >> quotearg-tests:gettext > > The issue in libguestfs seems to be quotearg-tests, pulled in v

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Richard, > I don't directly depend on the gettext module in gnulib, but doubtless > it's being pulled in as a dependency of something. Can you look where this dependency comes from? In the meantime, I notice that 'acl' does not need to depend on 'gettext', only on 'gettext-h', and am applyi

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:13:32PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > There aren't many modules that depend on gettext > > $ grep -x gettext * > acl:gettext > bison-i18n:gettext > quotearg-tests:gettext The issue in libguestfs seems to be quotearg-tests, pulled in via quotearg, and quotearg being pulle

Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 06/03/2010 06:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I just updated gnulib in libguestfs. This pulls in gettext 0.18 -- I don't directly depend on the gettext module in gnulib, but doubtless it's being pulled in as a dependency of something. There's no gettext 0.18 in Fedora, even in Rawhide, and

gettext 0.18 grumbles

2010-06-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I just updated gnulib in libguestfs. This pulls in gettext 0.18 -- I don't directly depend on the gettext module in gnulib, but doubtless it's being pulled in as a dependency of something. There's no gettext 0.18 in Fedora, even in Rawhide, and it seems non-trivial to build. My workaround has b

Re: [PATCH] time: work with mingw + pthreads-win32 library

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Yes, looks reasonable Thanks for the review. Pushed it. Bruno

Re: [PATCH] time: work with mingw + pthreads-win32 library

2010-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/03/2010 03:57 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Eric, > >> # if ! @TIME_H_DEFINES_STRUCT_TIMESPEC@ >> # if @SYS_TIME_H_DEFINES_STRUCT_TIMESPEC@ >> # include >> +# elif @PTHREAD_H_DEFINES_STRUCT_TIMESPEC@ >> +# include >> # else > > Now, gnulib - not the user's code - is including th

Re: ‘libunistring’ module errors

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ludo, > There’s something wrong for me after the Gnulib update: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ rm aclocal.m4 > > $ autoreconf -vfi > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext > autoreconf: running: aclocal --fo

Re: [PATCH] time: work with mingw + pthreads-win32 library

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > # if ! @TIME_H_DEFINES_STRUCT_TIMESPEC@ > # if @SYS_TIME_H_DEFINES_STRUCT_TIMESPEC@ > # include > +# elif @PTHREAD_H_DEFINES_STRUCT_TIMESPEC@ > +# include > # else Now, gnulib - not the user's code - is including this , of which you just determined that it contains a broke