Re: gnulib copyright method

2011-11-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/12/11 16:46, Karl Berry wrote: > So how about normalizing gnulib to have the actual license in the source > files? I don't have any objection.

gnulib copyright method

2011-11-12 Thread Karl Berry
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Copyright.html which says The source files always say "GPL", but the real license specification is in the module description file. .. which is highly anomalous. I'm not aware of any other project anywhere which deliberately puts i

Re: exclude tests refactoring

2011-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > The Solaris 'diff' program understands option '-u', the AIX and HP-UX 'diff' > programs don't. So here's a proposed patch. It removes the spurious output > on all 3 platforms. > > 2011-11-12 Bruno Haible > > Silence successful tests that use 'compare' on AIX, HP-UX, S

Re: exclude tests refactoring

2011-11-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > * tests/test-exclude1.sh: Use init.sh. > * tests/test-exclude2.sh: Likewise. > * tests/test-exclude3.sh: Likewise. > * tests/test-exclude4.sh: Likewise. > * tests/test-exclude5.sh: Likewise. > * tests/test-exclude6.sh: Likewise. > * tests/test-exclude7.sh: Likewise. > * tests/

Re: git-version-gen

2011-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/12/2011 11:53 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> For inetutils (which uses git tags looking like 'inetutils-1_8') we >> noticed that git-version-gen hardcodes an expression when searching for >> particular tags: >> >> && v=`git describe --abbrev=4 --match='v*' HEAD 2>/dev/n

Re: git-version-gen

2011-11-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/12/2011 11:53 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: > For inetutils (which uses git tags looking like 'inetutils-1_8') we > noticed that git-version-gen hardcodes an expression when searching for > particular tags: > > && v=`git describe --abbrev=4 --match='v*' HEAD 2>/dev/null \ > > I guess there

git-version-gen

2011-11-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
For inetutils (which uses git tags looking like 'inetutils-1_8') we noticed that git-version-gen hardcodes an expression when searching for particular tags: && v=`git describe --abbrev=4 --match='v*' HEAD 2>/dev/null \ I guess there are at least two questions: 1) Is it really required? 2) A

Re: [Platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.9.69-f91c

2011-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > That fix was not enough, and even had a typo. > With these further changes, I've now confirmed that those two > tests are indeed skipped on Solaris 10, which also lacks those > definitions. > ... >>From e500079a186434daeba99a1ea115690715fd56eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From:

Re: [Platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.9.69-f91c

2011-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Am 11.11.2011 um 14:42 schrieb Jim Meyering: >> Thanks for investigating. >> I've pushed the following fix to gnulib; >> I'll update grep to use it before the release. > > Excellent! Please let me know if you have an updated tarball for me to try. That fix

Re: gl_FUNC_FSTATAT doesn’t support cross-compilation

2011-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> 2011-11-10 Bruno Haible >> >> fstatat: Make cross-compilation guess succeed everywhere except on AIX. >> * m4/fstatat.m4 (gl_FUNC_FSTATAT): Require AC_CANONICAL_HOST. >> When cross-compiling, guess yes on all platforms except AIX. >> Reported by Ludo

Re: obstack fix

2011-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > While testing a 'grep' prerelease on MSVC 9, I got this error: > > obstack.c > obstack.c(406) : error C2381: 'print_and_abort': redefinition; > __declspec(noreturn) differs from > obstack.c(90): see declaration of 'print_and_abort' > make[4]: *** [obstack.obj] Error

Re: suggested method for mixed licenses

2011-11-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Nikos, > Currently in gnutls we used gnulib for the main library (LGPLv3) and > the applications (GPLv3). In the main library we use only modules that > are lgpl and the applications use few gpl modules as well. However it is > not easy to make sure that only LGPL modules of gnulib are used in

suggested method for mixed licenses

2011-11-12 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Hello, Currently in gnutls we used gnulib for the main library (LGPLv3) and the applications (GPLv3). In the main library we use only modules that are lgpl and the applications use few gpl modules as well. However it is not easy to make sure that only LGPL modules of gnulib are used in the library