Re: Adjusting jobserver size (was: Re: No follow up on patches to support newer glibc ?)

2020-07-13 Thread Henrik Carlqvist
I have added an updated patch to bug #51200 and hope that you will reconsider adding the functionality into next release. It is true that SIGUSR is already used for debug toggling, but the behavior of SIGUSR1 isn't changed to decreasing number of jobs until a SIGUSR2 signal is received. So make wil

Re: Adjusting jobserver size (was: Re: No follow up on patches to support newer glibc ?)

2018-04-07 Thread Henrik Carlqvist
Thanks for your feedback! > On the other hand, it's a complex change (I'm not convinced that your > implementation is complete: for example, it's not immediately clear to > me how the decrement handles the "free token" concept of the job server > implementation... The variable decrease_jobs is se

Adjusting jobserver size (was: Re: No follow up on patches to support newer glibc ?)

2018-04-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 00:26 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:42:51 -0400 > Paul Smith wrote: > > It does look like we need to make a new release soon. > > If so, is there anything I can do to get the functionality of my > contributed patch in bug #51200 into the upcoming ne

Re: No follow up on patches to support newer glibc ?

2018-04-04 Thread Henrik Carlqvist
On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:42:51 -0400 Paul Smith wrote: > It does look like we need to make a new release soon. If so, is there anything I can do to get the functionality of my contributed patch in bug #51200 into the upcoming new release? Best regards Henrik __

Re: No follow up on patches to support newer glibc ?

2018-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 04/04/18 03:42 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 13:03 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: After all the vibrant discussion I was at least expecting a reply that says "okay .. so that works" or perhaps a "ver 4.2.2 patches?" or something. Well, we thought it would work and it did work, an

Re: No follow up on patches to support newer glibc ?

2018-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 13:03 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > After all the vibrant discussion I was at least expecting a reply that > says "okay .. so that works" or perhaps a "ver 4.2.2 patches?" or > something. Well, we thought it would work and it did work, and those fixes are in the codebase... s

No follow up on patches to support newer glibc ?

2018-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
After all the vibrant discussion I was at least expecting a reply that says "okay .. so that works" or perhaps a "ver 4.2.2 patches?" or something. What bothers me is that these patches are only needed on a i686 system thus far. Dennis ---

Re: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
Please don't reply only to me: discussions belong on the mailing lists. On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 15:32 -0400, Rob Holbert wrote: > The key in that definition is "depends on their first letter", not > "the capitalization of their first letter". But in any event, if you > don't have a clear definition

RE: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-19 Thread Martin Dorey
ake@gnu.org Subject: Re: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up) On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > I agree that the manual should document the fact that the sort function > does not sort according the current LC_COLLATE value but instead always >

Re: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-19 Thread Edward Welbourne
> GNU make uses the standard C runtime function qsort(3) to perform its > sorting, with a comparison function of the standard C runtime function > strcmp(). ... > The builtin sort function DOES sort. It may not sort the way you would > prefer, but it sorts in a standard, repeatable, well-defined w

Re: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-19 Thread David Boyce
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > I agree that the manual should document the fact that the sort function > does not sort according the current LC_COLLATE value but instead always > uses the standard ASCII (or LC_COLLATE="C") order. > > But I will not say that it doesn't sort l

RE: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
There is no standard definition of "lexical order" that I'm aware of that means only, and exactly, sorted according to the current locale collation definition. The free dictionary defines it as: the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as th

RE: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-19 Thread Martin Dorey
Putting OP's reply on the record. From: Rob Holbert [mailto:robholb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 04:49 To: Martin Dorey Subject: Re: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up) Wow, Just putting your sources in order y

RE: $(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-18 Thread Martin Dorey
uot; | fmt -w1 | sort)'; echo 'L:=$(call strcoll,B a)'; } | make -f - -p 2>&1 | grep '^L ' L := a B martind@whitewater:~$ From: Rob Holbert [mailto:robholb...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 10:13 To: Martin Dorey Subject: Re: $(sor

$(sort) - what is "lexical order"? (was RE: Follow-up)

2011-07-12 Thread Martin Dorey
earc@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Rob Holbert Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 12:24 To: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Follow-up Wanted to followup to my earlier email. Attached is the smallest makefile I could create to demonsterate the issue. or #does not sort lexically like expected LIST = $(sort widget

Follow-up

2011-07-11 Thread Rob Holbert
Wanted to followup to my earlier email. Attached is the smallest makefile I could create to demonsterate the issue. or #does not sort lexically like expected LIST = $(sort widget.c main.c ad.c Buzzer.c) #target all: list list: @echo $(LIST) .PHONY: all list Previous email: Hello, I ran acro