Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-10-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 10/9/2008 2:39 AM: > Did you consider using "_version" as the new target name? > With that, GNUmakefile impinges less on the name space of all > subsidiary Makefiles. Sure, that looks like a good improvement. - -- Don't w

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-10-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > + GNUmakefile: add 'make version' target > + * top/GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Split version update rules... > + (version): ...into a target. Hi Eric, That looks like a fine change. Did you consider using "_version" as the new target name? With

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes: > * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:38:00PM CEST: [Revisiting an older thread] > > > > Well, I tried to make it a hard error, so that it would be the only > > > > output, but others on the list convinced me to reduce it back to a > > > > warning. I d

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:17:01PM CEST: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/28/2008 1:39 AM: > > > > Pause is not good. It doesn't scale with system speed, it doesn't > > parallelize, who looks at build logs interactively anyway, except > > to get annoyed by the fact that it's

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/28/2008 1:39 AM: > > Pause is not good. It doesn't scale with system speed, it doesn't > parallelize, who looks at build logs interactively anyway, except > to get annoyed by the fact that it's still not done yet? I

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > This whole issue is getting more and more abstruse, ever since it > was decided that the version should contain the git string, but at > the same time autoconf should not rerun upon each version string > change. I agree that more thought needs to be put into solving this i

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:38:00PM CEST: > Denny Joel E cs.clemson.edu> writes: > > > > Well, I tried to make it a hard error, so that it would be the only > > > output, but others on the list convinced me to reduce it back to a > > > warning. I don't know of any GNU

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-27 Thread Brian K. White
- Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install > Denny Joel E cs.clemson.edu> writes: > >> > Well, I tried to make it a h

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-27 Thread Eric Blake
Denny Joel E cs.clemson.edu> writes: > > Well, I tried to make it a hard error, so that it would be the only > > output, but others on the list convinced me to reduce it back to a > > warning. I don't know of any GNU make construct to make it appear last. > > Maybe we just insert a sleep 10 afte

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Denny Joel E
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to Jim Meyering on 8/26/2008 2:18 AM: Hi Joel, How about this instead? Then it can be changed arbitrarily on a per-project basis. From 6e4373f0b071f6b604ce343e8267e45d25bf4aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 F

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Denny Joel E
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Eric Blake wrote: According to Joel E. Denny on 8/26/2008 1:28 AM: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote: Also, I noticed that the stale version warning for make install always scrolls out of the terminal window. I never notice it unless I'm looking for it, so it's not

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 8/26/2008 2:18 AM: >> Hi Joel, >> How about this instead? >> Then it can be changed arbitrarily on a per-project basis. >> >>>From 6e4373f0b071f6b604ce343e8267e45d25bf4aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PRO

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 8/26/2008 2:18 AM: > Hi Joel, > How about this instead? > Then it can be changed arbitrarily on a per-project basis. > >>From 6e4373f0b071f6b604ce343e8267e45d25bf4aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL P

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Joel E. Denny on 8/26/2008 1:28 AM: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote: > >> Also, I noticed that the stale version warning for make install always >> scrolls out of the terminal window. I never notice it unless I'm looking >> f

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
"Joel E. Denny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote: >> I frequently run make maintainer-check during Bison development. I don't >> see a need to update VERSION every time. Is the following patch >> acceptable, or would it be better to rename maintainer-check* to

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote: > Also, I noticed that the stale version warning for make install always > scrolls out of the terminal window. I never notice it unless I'm looking > for it, so it's not doing me much good. Is there any way to print it > last? This is the error messag

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-26 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote: > I frequently run make maintainer-check during Bison development. I don't > see a need to update VERSION every time. Is the following patch > acceptable, or would it be better to rename maintainer-check* to something > else in Bison? Here's a more fo

GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-09 Thread Joel E. Denny
Hi, I frequently run make maintainer-check during Bison development. I don't see a need to update VERSION every time. Is the following patch acceptable, or would it be better to rename maintainer-check* to something else in Bison? --- ../../gnulib/top/GNUmakefile2008-08-06 18:31:57.0