On 12/25/06, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The 'tar' version is correct. But this is not an Autoconf issue; it
is a gnulib version issue. The gnulib fix (dated March 25) is here:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/m4/regex.m4?r1=1.50&r2=1.51
but apparently findutils is running with an older version of gnulib.
I don't see any reason findutils shouldn't be using the latest CVS
gnulib. I'll CC: this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to give the findutils
maintainers a heads-up on the bug.
I'll consider myself notified. Apart from that bugfix are there any
other essential changes I should import, or are you suggesting I
update the whole of gnulib to current CVS?
I am using an older version of gnulib because I try to change the
stable release series of findutils only to fix bugs. Updating to the
newest current release of gnulib every time I release findutils seemed
to me to be a lot of code churn; the gnulib code usually changes more
than the findutils code, at least for the stable releases of
findutils.
I don't have an effective mechanism (other than diff -r) of figuring
out what changes occurred in gnulib between two releases of findutils,
either. That also makes me reluctant to routinely update gnulib from
CVS.
James.
