Re: check for max cmd line length

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 29 June 2001  1:08 am, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:07:45AM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Fair enough.  If Marcus doesn't have a chance to get back to us before
> > the weekend,
>
> I'm here, just very busy.

No offence intended... Such is the lot of a GNU developer =)O|

>  Next time I boot to the Hurd I'll make the test,
> which should be within the next hours.

Okay, thanks!

> > then by all means commit a change to HEAD.  One thing to watch out
> > for is not to accidentally match ``linux-gnu'' when matching against
> > ``gnu'' (i.e. hurd) in a $host_os case.
>
> You need to match
>
>       gnu*)
>
> as we have gnu0.2, etc.
>
> > I'm planning to release 1.4b at the weekend to elicit some feedback on
> > how well the MLB merge has worked out... I guess I should don my asbestos
> > suit just in case =)O|
>
> Is it okay for me to test the current CVS head?  I lost my test case, can
> you hint me at an easy way to run the max cmdline test from the CVS files?

Yes. Please do.  There has been an irresponsible amount of code churn where 
merging two features (multi-language support vs. ltconfig removal) clashed.  
The more testing I can get post merge, the less paranoid I will be about how 
much damage I have inflicted on the sources.

It should simply be a matter of fetching the current HEAD revision, and then

        $ ./bootstrap
        $ ./configure

I have moved all the ltconfig/ltcf-*.sh into m4 macros in libtool.m4, which 
are executed at configure time.  I just recently made HEAD depend on 
automake-1.4-p4 and autoconf-2.50 though, so you might want to back up a few 
hours down the trunk to get automake-1.4/autoconf-2.13 compatible revisions. 

> > Do you have any thoughts on the unquoted-variables-in-a-test problem that
>
> I feel thread hijacking ;)

I have spent the last 6 hours or so in email and became lazy.  Sorry about 
that ;-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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