Re: Redundant function in relocatable.sh.in

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Reuben Thomas wrote: It seems to me that since commit e3834e1ce49, func_tmpdir has no callers, and can be removed. Thanks, I removed it.

[PATCH] maint: fix public-submodule-commit to work with newer git

2014-01-01 Thread Jim Meyering
About to make a grep release, I hit the seemingly-spurious failure of the public-submodule-commit rule. It ended up being due to the version (built from git.git) of git I was using on that system. I haven't traced the change to a precise git version, but did confirm that 1.7.10.2 and 1.8.1.4 both

Re: as_echo/bs_echo still required?

2014-01-01 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Paul, On Jan 2, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> it looks like doing so effectively deprecates Solaris 7 support > > That's fine. Sun (now Oracle) stopped supporting Solaris 7 > in August 2008. Even Solaris 8 is fair game now; its end of > support was March

Re: as_echo/bs_echo still required?

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: it looks like doing so effectively deprecates Solaris 7 support That's fine. Sun (now Oracle) stopped supporting Solaris 7 in August 2008. Even Solaris 8 is fair game now; its end of support was March 2012. (Solaris 9's end of support will be in October of this year.)

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

2014-01-01 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On Jan 2, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > One of our tenets relating to developer-related tools/rules like this > is that we do not accommodate inferior tools when it comes to building > from git-cloned sources (by contrast to building from a tarball). > People who do that are exp

as_echo/bs_echo still required?

2014-01-01 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Paul, Some time ago, with regard to my bootstrap rewrite, you suggested that the hoop-jumping I do to find a backslash-friendly echo equivalent on the host machine was probably overkill nowadays, and that it would be cleaner to just use `printf '%s\n'` everywhere. The bs_echo boilerplate in bo

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

2014-01-01 Thread Jim Meyering
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Thanks for the quick response. > > On Jan 2, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> ... >>> The change (back ticks instead of $(...) in the no-submodule-changes rule

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

2014-01-01 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, Thanks for the quick response. On Jan 2, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > ... >> The change (back ticks instead of $(...) in the no-submodule-changes rule) >> looks like a harmless way to fix the bug to me. >> >> Okay to

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Replacing the $(...) with back ticks fixes the parse problem for me, though I'm not sure whether it's the odd looking dangling `|| exit 1` or the POSIX command substitution paren matching interacting badly with nested `cd $(srcdir)`? Neither sounds plausible, so I'm afr

Re: maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

2014-01-01 Thread Jim Meyering
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: ... > The change (back ticks instead of $(...) in the no-submodule-changes rule) > looks like a harmless way to fix the bug to me. > > Okay to push? Hi Gary, I have been unable to reproduce that failure so far. E.g., this via grep (which I h

maint.mk bug (with tentative fix)

2014-01-01 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Gnulibbers, On my Mac OS 10.9.1, with /bin/zsh as my login shell (trying to make an alpha release of Libtool master HEAD): $ make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not eve

Re: Link to mailing list page from main page?

2014-01-01 Thread Karl Berry
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ to the bug-gnulib mailing list page? Sounds good. I made that change and a few more. Thanks, Karl

Link to mailing list page from main page?

2014-01-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
It's a small thing, but could we please have a link from http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ to the bug-gnulib mailing list page? It's a small help for finding the archives, options pages &c. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org

Re: relocatable-perl module

2014-01-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 1 January 2014 13:13, Reuben Thomas wrote: > The Perl code is also rather shorter and probably more robust. > And also much clearer in intent, which makes it a better starting point for other similar modules for other languages, particularly those that can't reuse relocatable-script. It would

relocatable-perl module

2014-01-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
The attached patch adds a module relocatable-perl that does for Perl scripts what relocatable-script does for shell scripts. (In a previous message, I pointed out that relocatable-script can be used for Perl. While this is true, it's a somewhat delicate hack, requires an extra fork, and doesn't wo

Re: [PATCH 1/2] version-etc: new year

2014-01-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/01/2014 12:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > * lib/version-etc.c (COPYRIGHT_YEAR): Bump to 2014. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake > --- > > It's that time again :) Patch 2/2 was (rightfully) rejected in the moderator queue as oversized (1.9 meg); here's the relevant details: I ran 'make update-co