Re: [PATCH] Add new 'AM_PROG_AR' macro, triggering the 'ar-lib' script.

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-09-14 20:14 skrev Stefano Lattarini:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> However, I have only updated tests/ar.test to cope with the new
>> reality. So, a lot of tests (100?) are likely to fall over due to
>> the new portability warnings. The reason is that I don't know on
>> what branch I should base such an intrusive patch.
> You mean a patch adding AM_PROG_AR into all the tests which now requires
> it, right?  I'd base that on msvc branch (in fact, I'd make it a squash-in
> for your attached patch).
>> I fear that such a patch, when merged elsewhere, will be incomplete
> No big deal IMHO, we could resort to a fake merge in such case
> (`git commit --amend' can also edit merge commits AFAIK), fixing
> all the tests that need to be fixed.  And there will be few of
> them anyway IMO.

BTW, I forgot to ask before, but can you please point out such a fake
merge, so that I can see what I should aim for?

Cheers,
Peter