alternative structure of testdirs

2011-05-28 Thread Bruno Haible
For testing the tricky cases of AC_LIBOBJ and of modules with -posix/-gnu variants, it is a bit annoying that "gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests" creates a directory structure that is significantly different from what "gnulib-tool --import --with-tests" produces: I need to use a scratch GNU

Re: getloadavg is broken

2011-05-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: >         getloadavg: trim unused parts and speed up 'configure' >         ... > > removed the code that used to perform an unusual compile-time test: > using using the getloadavg.c from somewhere under $top_srcdir. > *That* was the sole reason for the macro argument you've jus

Re: getloadavg is broken

2011-05-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> Looks sane to me. > > Thanks for the review. Jim is silent about it for 4 days. So I'm committing > the > patch now: > > > 2011-05-28 Bruno Haible > > getloadavg: Remove an unreliable safety check. > * m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Drop

Re: getloadavg is broken

2011-05-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Looks sane to me. Thanks for the review. Jim is silent about it for 4 days. So I'm committing the patch now: 2011-05-28 Bruno Haible getloadavg: Remove an unreliable safety check. * m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Drop argument. Remove test whether

Re: [PATCH] intprops: add doc

2011-05-28 Thread Bruno Haible
> doc: Use a recent texinfo.tex. Oops, after this upgrade, texinfo.tex produces yet another empty file, that "make clean" needs to remove. 2011-05-28 Bruno Haible doc: Cleanup yet another file produced by texinfo.tex. * doc/Makefile (mostlyclean): Remove also gnulib.cn.

Re: conditional dependencies between modules

2011-05-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Conditional dependencies appear to work fine so far. So here's a patch that does 3 changes: - Remove the label "experimental". - Make the setting persistent in gnulib-cache.m4, and add an option --no-conditional-dependencies to revoke its effect. - Document the options. 2011-05-28 Brun

Re: [PATCH] intprops: add doc

2011-05-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > +that behavior is undefined for shifts unless 0@leq{}@var{b}<@var{w} This addition leads to a "make" error in the doc directory for me: $ make ... ./intprops.texi:243: Missing $ inserted. $ @leq l.243 ...vior is undefined for shifts unl

Moving findutils to a common build-from-source-tree system: bootstrap

2011-05-28 Thread James Youngman
[ I'm copying bug-gnulib mostly in case someone over there would like to warn us that the grass on the bootstrap side of the river is not quite as green as it first appeared. ] I just tried building GNU emacs from its bzr checkout instead of a tarball.This I made hard for myself by using "mak

Re: [PATCH] intprops.h: adjust comment to match code change

2011-05-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > I noticed that the comment on _GL_INT_CONVERT still said "no side effects", > even though the restriction is now lifted: ... > Subject: [PATCH] intprops.h: adjust comment to match code change > > * lib/intprops.h (_GL_INT_CONVERT): Adjust comment: now that E is used > only on

[PATCH] intprops.h: adjust comment to match code change

2011-05-28 Thread Jim Meyering
I noticed that the comment on _GL_INT_CONVERT still said "no side effects", even though the restriction is now lifted: >From dabf3a8df68b0d70f8aff58e96ef3f143410d502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:34:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] intprops.h: adjust comment to ma