[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> If this bootstrapping issue could be avoided it would be nice.
I installed this patch to do that. Thanks for reporting it. Also, I
noticed the code uses "tail -1" which POSIX does not require support
for, so I fixed that too.
2006-12-30 Paul Eggert <[
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According to Bob Proulx on 12/30/2006 9:03 PM:
> Bootstrapping a new architecture from bare metal is often a
> problematic exercise in circular dependencies. I ran into a case of
> this while building the coreutils.
This is often the case for a numbe
Bootstrapping a new architecture from bare metal is often a
problematic exercise in circular dependencies. I ran into a case of
this while building the coreutils.
Bootstrapping coreutils on a pristine HP-UX 11.23 ia64 machine
produces the following error:
./bootstrap: gnulib/gnulib-tool --imp
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BTW. could it be possible to change POSIX on this issue?
I very much doubt it. POSIX deliberately does not specify the
behavior of non-POSIX file systems, or of programs operating on
non-POSIX file systems
Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW. could it be possible to change POSIX on this issue?
I very much doubt it. POSIX deliberately does not specify the
behavior of non-POSIX file systems, or of programs operating on
non-POSIX file systems. That's out of scope, just as it'd be out o
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
There are a lot of packages that will break (sometimes subtly) on file
systems that lack stable file serial numbers: coreutils, diffutils,
git, tar, the list goes on for quite a ways. I'm afraid the only
Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a system that precaches directory content at opendir call and I
> found that coreutils-6.7 rm -r command doesn't work on it (it used to work
> fine in coreutils 5).
>
> The problem is this: when walking up to the root in directory tree, rm
> opens
Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>> There are a lot of packages that will break (sometimes subtly) on file
>> systems that lack stable file serial numbers: coreutils, diffutils,
>> git, tar, the list goes on for quite a ways. I'm afraid the only
>> current answer to this problem is "
Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> Obviously stable file
>> serial numbers are implementable. They just aren't easily
>> implementable if one chooses the wrong implementation strategy.
>
> How would you implement them for FAT filesystem?
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