[PATCH] Reflect the 'configure.in' -> 'configure.ac' rename throughout

2013-04-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
In README, code comments, and auxiliary files. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- ChangeLog | 9 + Makefile.DOS.template | 2 +- README.git| 4 ++-- build_w32.bat | 2 +- config.h-vms.template | 2 +- getloadavg.c

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:02:43 -0400 > > I believe this is only a problem building from git. If you build from a > distribution tarball then you don't need to have any particular version > of gettext installed. For developers who build from git, they

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

2013-04-20 Thread Ray Donnelly
Well, seems that you are right and this problem has just gone away now. I seem to have overwritten some dodgy version of m4 or autotools with ones that work all the time (provided I use Unix line endings in configure.ac, which I've set git up to do automatically now). Sorry for the noise, I will

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 19:38 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Paul Smith > > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:44:02 -0400 > > > > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? > > > I hack

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/20/2013 07:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:56:45 +0200 >> From: Stefano Lattarini >> CC: Eli Zaretskii , bug-make@gnu.org >> >> On 04/20/2013 05:44 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >>> On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Do we really need to require 0.1

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:56:45 +0200 > From: Stefano Lattarini > CC: Eli Zaretskii , bug-make@gnu.org > > On 04/20/2013 05:44 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? > >> I hac

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:44:02 -0400 > > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? > > I hacked configure.ac to require 0.17, and didn't see any problems > > after

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:52:03 +0100 > From: Ray Donnelly > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > I tried with various autoconf versions, including 2.65, and also with three > different versions of m4.exe ( all from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/m4/ ) with both > dos and unix

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/20/2013 05:44 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? >> I hacked configure.ac to require 0.17, and didn't see any problems >> afterwards. > > You can see this bug: > > http://s

Re: Example use of findstring in documentation can be problematic

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 18:07 -0600, David Sankel wrote: > In section 7.3 and 8.2 the function 'findstring' is recommended as a > means to search a space separated list for a given value. This > suggestion is problematic as findstring really searches for > substrings. So, for example $(findstring car

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? > I hacked configure.ac to require 0.17, and didn't see any problems > afterwards. You can see this bug: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37307 I confess I didn't get a s

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

2013-04-20 Thread Ray Donnelly
I tried with various autoconf versions, including 2.65, and also with three different versions of m4.exe ( all from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/m4/ ) with both dos and unix line-endings and each time ran into the same problem. Eli, would it be possible to describe yo

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:24:42 +0100 > From: Ray Donnelly > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > This is all, of course, with sources from git. > > If configure contains the line continuation ('\') in AC_CONFIG_FILES, > then we end up with this lovely construct in configure: > "config/Makefile") CONF

Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Trying to build the current git head, I get this: $ autoreconf -i autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your configure.ac file requires the infrastructure from gettext-0.18.1 but this version is older. Please upgrade to gettext-0.18.1 or newer. au