Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 10/21/2008 4:04 PM: > echo "$ver" | sed ' > s/^\([0-9]\{,\}\)\.\([0-9]\{,\}\)[.0]*$/\1.\2.0/; #1.10 -> > 1.10.0 > s/^\([0-9]\{,\}\)\.\([0-9]\{,\}\)\([a-z]\)/\1.\2.99\3/; #1.10a -> > 1.10.99a F

Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

Version 2 of bootstrap requirements checking patch attached. Note if one wanted to fully support all (old) version formats as automake does, one could normalize them before comparison with something like the following: normalize_version() { ver="$1" echo "$ver" | sed ' s/^\([0-9]\{

Re: [coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Martin Knapp-Cordes on 10/21/2008 8:31 AM: > Hello, > > I would like to respond to any earlier claim made that > there is a "long-standing bug in matlab startup script". > We at the MathWorks disagree. Unfortunately, your disagreement is

Re: Man page ommission, "date" command

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pierson, Doug (ITD) on 10/21/2008 11:30 AM: > > The "-d STRING" option lacks specification of the valid values for > STRING. For example, "-d yesterday" is a valid date, but it's not > mentioned in the man page. Thanks for the report.

Man page ommission, "date" command

Hello, The "-d STRING" option lacks specification of the valid values for STRING. For example, "-d yesterday" is a valid date, but it's not mentioned in the man page. Server: 1. "cat /etc/redhat-release" returns "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)" 2. "una

Re: [coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

Hello, I would like to respond to any earlier claim made that there is a "long-standing bug in matlab startup script". We at the MathWorks disagree. Please observe the following by reading carefully the online documentation for the Open Group Standard, UNIX Version 3, expr command. The POSIX sta

[PATCH] move selinux-h module from gl/ to gnulib

This is the change that removes the selinux-h related files. They were just added verbatim to gnulib, then tweaked there. >From aa67daf63b8a0fe1a99fd79e50c1d5068fb430b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:10:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] move selin

[PATCH] prepare to move selinux-h module to gnulib

FYI, Since this module is useful to augeas , I've relaxed the license and will soon move it to gnulib. >From 1a13e78ca14dd8b50c00af18d472dee33825560b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:38:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] prepare

Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: > ... >>> Are you interested in doing something like that? >> Well all missing dependencies are currently reported I think, >> but it can be minutes into the build before this happens. >> I'll add a list to bootst

Re: [PATCH] ls: make possible to stop file capabilities checking

Kamil Dudka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colorizing file with capabilities has some performance impact (rhbz #467508). > It should be possible to stop checking for file capabilities by unsetting ca > attribute of $LS_COLORS. One-line patch solving this issue is attached. > > Simple test: > $ strace