Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> Thanks for testing and noticing that.
>> However, I would like to avoid using a temporary file when using GNU diff.
>> How about something like this instead?
>>
>> diff_=$(diff -u "$0" "$0" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null)
>> if test $? = 0; then
>> if test -z "$diff_"
Hi Jim,
> Thanks for testing and noticing that.
> However, I would like to avoid using a temporary file when using GNU diff.
> How about something like this instead?
>
> diff_=$(diff -u "$0" "$0" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null)
> if test $? = 0; then
> if test -z "$diff_"; then
> compare () { dif
Apparently GNU make works also with spaces instead of tabs in continuation
lines of rule commands? But nevertheless it's more consistent to use tabs
here for indentation.
2011-11-13 Bruno Haible
Makefile: Tweak indentation.
* Makefile: Use tab as first character in every line
Karl Berry wrote:
> As I recall, this situation came about to placate projects which were
> using gnulib without using gnulib-tool, notably coreutils and others
> that Paul E and Jim M were working on. In the years since then, all
> those projects (to my knowledge) have started using gnulib-tool.
Simon Josefsson writes:
> How about this patch to make the match string configurable?
That was broken, I pushed a better one that should have less backwards
compatibility issues (I hope).
/Simon
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 13248fc..b6bf5b2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@
How about this patch to make the match string configurable?
/Simon
diff --git a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen
index 3234bdd..1d484d9 100755
--- a/build-aux/git-version-gen
+++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
> So how about normalizing gnulib to have the actual license in the source
> files?
+1
This has caused several misunderstandings and I've always hoped we could
return to normal practices here.
/Simon
Eric Blake writes:
> 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>/d
