Re: 5.96: chgrp/basic failure on OpenBSD

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With 5.96, I get one test failure on i386-unknown-openbsd3.8. Possibly you're suffering from this problem, noted in tests/chgrp/basic: # The following no-change chgrp command is supposed to update f's ctime, # but on OpenBSD, it appears to be a n

Re: 5.96: chgrp/basic failure on OpenBSD

2006-05-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:54:04AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > With 5.96, I get one test failure on i386-unknown-openbsd3.8. > > Possibly you're suffering from this problem, noted in tests/chgrp/basic: > > # The following no-change ch

Re: AIX grep limitation: coreutils build failure

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't mind the plug, but unfortunately, things are not so simple: > The `grep -c' apparently keeps going, and just omits counting the line > that was too long (as it happens, the LTLIBOBJS and the LIBOBJS > substitutions are in different conf$$subs.s

Re: Missing variable quoting in m4 files

2006-05-29 Thread Roland Illig
Jim Meyering wrote: Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... That patch masks the actual error, which is that the variable was used without being defined. The underlying bug was fixed in a different way, as described in

Question about md5sum

2006-05-29 Thread Arseny Solokha
Hello! I have a question about md5sum 5.2.1. For example, I'm in deirectory /home/arseny and I want to get hash of file foo.bar. I have to write md5sum /home/arseny/foo.bar. But I consider that it would be more natural to look file firstly in current directory. For example command would be cd /

Question about md5sum

2006-05-29 Thread Arseny Solokha
Hello! I have a question about md5sum 5.2.1. For example, I'm in deirectory /home/arseny and I want to get hash of file foo.bar. I have to write md5sum /home/arseny/foo.bar. But I consider that it would be more natural to look file firstly in current directory. For example command would be cd /

Re: Question about md5sum

2006-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
> I have a question about md5sum 5.2.1. 5.2.1 is several years old; I would consider upgrading. The latest stable version is 5.96, and a 5.97 will probably arrive within the next month or so. > For example, I'm in deirectory /home/arseny and I want to get hash of > file foo.bar. I have to write

Re: OSF/4.0D strtold

2006-05-29 Thread Albert Chin
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:47:28PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Tru64 UNIX 4.0D doesn't provide strtold (in the standard library at > least), but /usr/include.dtk/stdlib.h provides a declaration. Thus the > compile test in c-strtod.m4 fails. This causes a link failure for > coreutils-5.96 prin

5.96: 3 test failures on HP-UX 11.23

2006-05-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I get 3 failures on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23: misc/close-stdout, touch/no-create-missing, and help-version (groups), see the verbose output below. Note that I also get the warning below. On ia64-hp-hpux11.23, the same tests fail. On hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11, I get no test failures, and no such warning.

Re: AIX grep limitation: coreutils build failure

2006-05-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:19:31AM CEST: > > OK, thanks, how about this fix instead? This is fine with me, thank you. > (My reluctance to use tr is due to the fact that we don't rely on it > now, so why add it) Fine with me, too. Please note though that tr is

Re: AIX tests failures

2006-05-29 Thread Albert Chin
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > And yes, that happens with GCC as well. They simply forget the final > `\0', I guess. As also mentioned here[2], the strndup declaration is > #ifdef'ed away behind a _LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT define. > > I guess Autoconf should have a

Re: AIX tests failures

2006-05-29 Thread Albert Chin
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:58:24PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > I have to confess that I wonder if it's worth trying to work around > bugs in AIX 4. Is it still officially supported? Is it used by many? > I haven't had access to such a system for a few years now, and no one > has been building co

Re: Support bytesize comparison in sort

2006-05-29 Thread Mart Somermaa
What is the general consensus on adding the '--human-readable-bytesize' otpion to sort? The initial response seemed positive and I personally crave for the feature for 'du -hs | sort -h'. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://list

Re: coreutils-5.96 doesn't build (out of the box)

2006-05-29 Thread Sam Sirlin
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:55:23 +0200 From: Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Sam Sirlin wrote on Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:20:04AM CEST: > > Here's the full output of the bad configure (autoconf 2.59 produced a > working configure) I still have no idea what's going on in

Re: coreutils-5.96 doesn't build (out of the box)

2006-05-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Sam Sirlin wrote on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:41:03PM CEST: >From: Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /bin/bash --version > echo $PATH > type mkdir expr dirname basename > > dirname is apparently the issue. I had an old dirname shell script > lying around from 1989 in my pat

Re: Bug#369468: coreutils: ls.1 implies that -v is not a sort option

2006-05-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.94-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream patch > X-Fuzzies-Translation: yes > > :.!man ls |grep -i sort > Reformatting ls(1), please wait... >Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort. >