Re: coreutils-6.0 on BeOS (9)

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Compiling the current coreutils CVS on MacOS X 10.3.9 now gives this error: > > stat.c: In function `print_statfs': > stat.c:416: error: incompatible types in initialization Thanks for reporting this. Oops, this is another MacOS problem (I got misled by

Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

2006-08-29 Thread The Wanderer
Jim Meyering wrote: The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Please keep replies on the list. I am not the maintainer, only an interested party; so mailing me privately will have no effect on the CVS repository. A suggestion: if the people who administer this mailing list

Re: coreutils-6.0: numerous test failures on MacOS X

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The process that hangs has the command line "tail -f -n 1". I installed the following patch to coreutils in an attempt to fix this. It uses the new isapipe module of gnulib. I think this finishes off the MacOS X problems you've reported recently. 2006

Re: coreutils-6.0: numerous test failures on MacOS X

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Single-stepping with "next" yields a loop in tail.c: This is because 'tail' is confused again about the distinction between pipes and sockets. This is a bit of a can of worms (it was the topic of a discussion on the Open Group a while ago, so I knew abo

Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

2006-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Kitchen) >> > from the --help output and from a tee.x template file, so you would have >> > to rework your patch to hit the upstream source of the manpage. Also, >> >> Yes, I considered that, but the patch is easy to cut and paste from and >> shows the general idea.

Re: date -d20060229 gives: "invalid date"

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Cousins
Paul Eggert wrote: Steve Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Don't I love new "features" like this?! What is the purpose of this? Don't you just love date string parsing? It's a subtle area, full of surprises. Hi Paul, Yeah. I thought I had it worked out years ago. Or at least the s

Re: date -d20060229 gives: "invalid date"

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Cousins
Paul Eggert wrote: Steve Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: date Versions 5.96 and 5.97 (at least) have a bug when passing dates that are greater than the actual number of days in a month. Previous versions (most of the machines seem to have 5.2.1) would convert the date to a correct date

Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

2006-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > >> Please keep replies on the list. I am not the maintainer, only an >> interested party; so mailing me privately will have no effect on the >> CVS repository. > > A suggestion: if the people who administer this mailing list are going

Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

2006-08-29 Thread The Wanderer
Eric Blake wrote: Please keep replies on the list. I am not the maintainer, only an interested party; so mailing me privately will have no effect on the CVS repository. A suggestion: if the people who administer this mailing list are going to persist in refusing to have it behave as a discus

Re: date -d20060229 gives: "invalid date"

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Steve Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't I love new "features" like this?! What is the purpose of this? Don't you just love date string parsing? It's a subtle area, full of surprises. > How is it more useful to report an error rather than doing a > meaningful conversion? Because ther

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>glibc2.m4 intdiv0.m4 inttypes-h.m4 inttypes-pri.m4 lcmessage.m4 >>lock.m4 printf-posix.m4 size_max.m4 uintmax_t.m4 ulonglong.m4 >>visibility.m4 xsize.m4 > > Assuming aclocal-1.9 or newer, I think we could remove these files > from the modules/

configmake.h now defines LOCALEDIR

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Eggert
I installed this to incorporate the latest gnulib change: 2006-08-29 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/system.h (LOCALEDIR): Remove, since configmake.h now defines it for us. --- system.h.~1.158.~ 2006-08-28 15:50:15.0 -0700 +++ system.h2006-08-29 07:19:37.000

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > what is the > recommended way to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], ...), gnulib-tool, > and autopoint/autoreconf in such a way that you don't get the > following files into your m4 directory afterwards? > >glibc2.m4 intdiv0.m4 inttypes-h.m4 inttypes-pri.m4 lcmessage.m4 >l

Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

2006-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
Please keep replies on the list. I am not the maintainer, only an interested party; so mailing me privately will have no effect on the CVS repository. -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Kitchen) > > from the --help output and from a tee.x template