We plan to release coreutils-9.7 tomorrow
so any testing you can do on various different systems
would be most welcome.
This release comes about 11 weeks after the 9.6 release,
and is mainly a bug fix release.
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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.9 MiB) from:
https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = 68f6adf89b96db45a198c61e239bc61b
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To test, follow this standard procedure:
tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
cd coreutils-9.6.61-7007c/
./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
Failures are shown, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
Please report/attach any issues to coreutils@gnu.org
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This snapshot was bootstrapped with:
Autoconf 2.72.70-9ff9
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v1.0-1629-g44cec52a5f
Bison 3.8.2
Changes in coreutils since v9.6 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
Changes in coreutils since the last snapshot are:
coreutils:
ls: support capabilities with device 0,0
ls: fix crash of "ls -Z ." on OpenBSD's /dev/wd0a disk
build: use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONSTRING attribute to avoid new warnings
maint: avoid syntax-check failures from recent commit
doc: mention workaround for combining hex floats with suffixes
timeout: don’t sleep less than requested
maint: silence a -Wunterminated-string-initialization warning
gnulib:
file-has-acl: port symlink code to Cygwin
maintainer-makefile: Avoid submodule-checks fail without submodules.
fseterr: Port to recent Haiku snapshots.
fflush: Port to recent Haiku snapshots.
fbufmode: Port to recent Haiku snapshots.
fseeko: Port to recent Haiku snapshots.
thank you!
Pádraig
