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Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4
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Bertrand Garrigues |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4 |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:59:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Ingo,
On Sun, Dec 09 2018 at 01:59:11 PM, Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden> wrote:
> Then, the test that the gnulib hypot module is supposed to replace
> intends to test whether the function needs to be *declared*. In
> the past, our build system did not provide any replacement code for
> a missing hypot() object in the system library. It only attempted
> to provide a missing declaration, if needed.
You're right. The removal of the buggy GROFF_NEED_DECLARATION on
hypot was suffificent to fix all the problems, it's not worth working on
the replacement function.
[...]
> By the way, looking at configure.ac, my impression is that redundant,
> maybe even conflicting tests are likely being done for several
> functions, for example GROFF_NEED_DECLARATION + AC_REPLACE_FUNCS
> for strcasecmp(3) and GROFF_NEED_DECLARATION + AC_CHECK_FUNCS for
> gettimeofday(2). But if so, that should be cleaned up *after*
> release. Besides, my impression may be mistaken, as i said, autoconf
> is quite contorted and certainly hard to understand.
Agreed. There is no need to spend time on that now. I'll fix my commit
and remove the 'hypot' modules tomorrow.
Regards
Bertrand
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, (continued)
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Bertrand Garrigues, 2018/12/08
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Deri, 2018/12/08
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/08
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Deri, 2018/12/09
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/09
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Deri, 2018/12/09
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/08
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/12/09
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/09
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/12/09
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4,
Bertrand Garrigues <=
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/09
- Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4, Bertrand Garrigues, 2018/12/10