bug#12728: v8.20 is missing LIBICONV for factor tool

2012-11-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 10/25/2012 05:36 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >> >>> On 10/25/2012 11:21 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks for dealing with that. Along with the fix, please add a syntax-check rule that does something like this: cd src; for i in

bug#12765: "configure --disable-threads" doesn't work with coreutils-8.20

2012-11-03 Thread John David Anglin
On 29-Oct-12, at 5:10 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/29/2012 12:39 PM, John David Anglin wrote: hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20 has DCE threads which predates the posix thread interface. On such a platform, coreutils should run single-threaded and shouldn't be mucking with DCE threads at all. Can you inv

bug#12754: factor.c selects 64 bit code from longlong.h on 32-bit hppa systems

2012-11-03 Thread John David Anglin
On 3-Nov-12, at 10:11 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Forry about that, I won't do that again :) No problem. The GCC commit system generates an entry in bugzilla provided one correctly tags the commit. Makes it easy to track fixes for a PR. Regards, Dave -- John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell

bug#12754: factor.c selects 64 bit code from longlong.h on 32-bit hppa systems

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/04/2012 02:00 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On 3-Nov-12, at 9:44 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Also this related one already mentioned: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=6108baa4 This one seems to have lost +#include from the original patch to make-prime-list.c

bug#12754: factor.c selects 64 bit code from longlong.h on 32-bit hppa systems

2012-11-03 Thread John David Anglin
On 3-Nov-12, at 9:44 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Also this related one already mentioned: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=6108baa4 This one seems to have lost +#include from the original patch to make-prime-list.c. I think this is needed to define PRIxMAX. R

bug#6308: Preserve command exit code in timeout(3)

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/29/2012 11:10 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/29/2012 10:07 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: These days, I prefer more expressive option names. As long as a short prefix is unique, length doesn't really matter. Here, --p is enough. However, --preserve-status seems ok, too. There is precedent for

bug#12754: factor.c selects 64 bit code from longlong.h on 32-bit hppa systems

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/04/2012 01:25 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On 3-Nov-12, at 8:54 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: I've now pushed the patch set discussed in this thread, so I'm marking this bug as done. Hopefully, it's the one with the _LP64 check. Yes: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdi

bug#12753: printf in make-prime-list.c uses "modern" features

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/04/2012 01:19 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On 3-Nov-12, at 8:55 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/29/2012 12:22 PM, John David Anglin wrote: On 28-Oct-12, at 9:57 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Is %jx not supported, or is the * not supported with %j? I'm guessing the latter since you got a runt

bug#12754: factor.c selects 64 bit code from longlong.h on 32-bit hppa systems

2012-11-03 Thread John David Anglin
On 3-Nov-12, at 8:54 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: I've now pushed the patch set discussed in this thread, so I'm marking this bug as done. Hopefully, it's the one with the _LP64 check. Regards, Dave -- John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net

bug#12753: printf in make-prime-list.c uses "modern" features

2012-11-03 Thread John David Anglin
On 3-Nov-12, at 8:55 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/29/2012 12:22 PM, John David Anglin wrote: On 28-Oct-12, at 9:57 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Is %jx not supported, or is the * not supported with %j? I'm guessing the latter since you got a runtime issue rather than a compile time one. We also

bug#12728: v8.20 is missing LIBICONV for factor tool

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/25/2012 05:36 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/25/2012 11:21 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks for dealing with that. Along with the fix, please add a syntax-check rule that does something like this: cd src; for i in $(git grep -l -w proper_name_utf8 *.c|sed 's/\.c//'

bug#12753: printf in make-prime-list.c uses "modern" features

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/29/2012 12:22 PM, John David Anglin wrote: On 28-Oct-12, at 9:57 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Is %jx not supported, or is the * not supported with %j? I'm guessing the latter since you got a runtime issue rather than a compile time one. We also use '*' in other format strings, so I doubt tha

bug#12754: factor.c selects 64 bit code from longlong.h on 32-bit hppa systems

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/30/2012 01:59 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Since 2.0 is the only arch that supports the 64 bit hppa code in longlong.h, the following enables the code to compile by default. diff --git a/src/longlong.h b/src/longlong.h index 8d71611..8b01696 100644 --- a/src/longlong.h +++ b/src/longlong.h @@

bug#12794: Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
package coreutils tags 12794 notabug stop On 11/03/2012 07:08 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 11/03/2012 08:28 AM, Ganton wrote: when I do backups, I see "errors" from dd... that really aren't. You have a point, but I'm afraid that dd is documented to behave that way, and it's part of the POSIX st

bug#12794: Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr

2012-11-03 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/03/2012 08:28 AM, Ganton wrote: > when I do backups, I see "errors" from dd... that really aren't. You have a point, but I'm afraid that dd is documented to behave that way, and it's part of the POSIX standard, and lots of people depend on it. To turn off the chatter, use "dd status=noxfe

bug#12794: Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr

2012-11-03 Thread Ganton
Dear sirs: I send you a bug report. # DESCRIPTION Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr. For example, when I do backups, I see "errors" from dd... that really aren't. # WAY TO REPRODUCE THE BUG A user can execute: partition=$(mount | awk '$2=="on" && $3=="/" {print $1}') sudo dd

bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/03/2012 02:36 PM, Michael Felt wrote: Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about being root, rather than at the end. This comes from a specific test in gnulib: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c53ef81 rather than a coreutils policy decis

bug#10423: problem with "make check" coreutils-8.14 after build

2012-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/03/2012 03:31 PM, Michael Felt wrote: My apologies for being so late with this. Lots of +++ at the end (might be something left over from debugging), but ends with: Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.15 # TOTA

bug#10423: problem with "make check" coreutils-8.14 after build

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Felt
My apologies for being so late with this. Lots of +++ at the end (might be something left over from debugging), but ends with: Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.15 # TOTAL: 466 # PASS: 314 # SKIP: 117 # XFAIL: 0 #

bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Felt
Do not know when this came in (8.16, or 8.17) - but 8.17 also requires a complete rerun of configure. 8.15 was so simple (or did I just not notice it then?) Michael On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about being >

bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Felt
Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about being root, rather than at the end. regards, Michael