Hello Bob,
I appreciate your prompt response. I will answer your questions below.
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this. But I would like a little more
> information.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Trying to install coreutils 5.2.1 on a Linux 2.4.25 system.
>
Thank you for reporting this. But I would like a little more
information.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Trying to install coreutils 5.2.1 on a Linux 2.4.25 system.
I don't think it is important this time but in the future the version
of the compiler and libc are frequently more important than the k
Hello,
Trying to install coreutils 5.2.1 on a Linux 2.4.25 system.
./configure --prefix=/ --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-nls \
--mandir=/usr/man --infodir=/usr/info
make && make check && make install
Fails on make check :
Making check in chgrp
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/s
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:24:00 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to
bug-coreutils:
> This source is released into the public domain under the GPL.
Huh? Either it's public domain or it's GPL.
Briefly, public domain means anyone can do anything with it, while
under the GPL, you have some restric
Thank you for taking the time to submit a report. However I think you
are confused by the documentation. :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think there is a wrong algorithm in your date function when using
> the %C argument for displaying the current century. your algorithm
> (year divided by 100
Hi,
I think there is a wrong algorithm in your date function when using the %C
argument for displaying the current century. your algorithm (year divided by
100 and truncated to an integer) gives the 20th century for the year 2004.
but
obviously that's not correct, so there has to be added a "+ 1"
Hi:
I don't know how I should do this, but I would like to submit a new
program to your project. I wrote this for a few reasons, but mainly
because I couldn't find an existing utility to do what I wanted. I needed
to be able to generate a binary file if given a set of bytes in ASCII.
Yes, you ca
I want to say thank you to Jim and Bob who have responded kindly to me
with informative information.
___
Bug-coreutils mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:30:46 -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got here some bash scripts that broke with this change and I'm
> wondering "why change such a thing, used for many years?".
My original motivation for proposing the patch was that ls's output
lines were ge
