bug#9580: sort 8.5 bug?

2011-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
tag 9580 notabug thanks On 09/22/2011 02:55 PM, Sean Sun wrote: So basi­cally, append­ing a let­ter after ‘.’ would reverse the sort order. That doesn't look quite right. Is there an explanation for this behavior? I've tried the same on a Mac, and their sort (5.93) woks just fine. Thanks for t

bug#9580: sort 8.5 bug?

2011-09-22 Thread Sean Sun
# Ubuntu 11.04 2.6.38-11-generic-pae sort --version sort (GNU coreutils) 8.5 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free

bug#9576: Bug#642291: FTBFS on powerpc: misc/seq-long-double test fails, should be skipped

2011-09-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2011-09-21 at 07:30 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:18:47AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >The test fails because it doesn't pass $CFLAGS to the compiler. The attached > >patch fixes this, so the test is skipped as expected. > > The point wasn't to skip the test,

bug#9573: Bug#642291: FTBFS on powerpc: misc/seq-long-double test fails, should be skipped

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:58:37AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: The skip message contains 'this test runs only on systems with [...] long double != double', which isn't satisfied with -mlong-double-64, is it? See the output samples; the prior version worked fine at this boundary, the new versio