Re: check-AUTHORS fails because of non ansi characters

2008-06-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 6/20/2008 1:09 PM: > |> 58c58 > |> < ptx: Fran?ois Pinard > |> --- > |>> ptx: François Pinard > > In my email, this is rendering as one vs. two characters. I suspect it > might be a locale issue - perhaps Jim is using a UTF-8 lo

Re: "\.1" entries in Makefile $MAN variable (Solaris 9)

2008-06-21 Thread Jim Meyering
"Poor Yorick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Thank you for your reply. I see what you mean about the extra backslashes. I > tried again with snapshot you suggested (coreutils-6.12.29-a16be), and after > applying the following patch, it worked (with the exception of a failed test, > which I will

new snapshot available: coreutils-6.12.66-c1aab

2008-06-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Here's the latest: coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz8.8 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma 3.7 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma.sig aka http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.

[patch 1/4] do not force suid color

2008-06-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
By default, ls highlights setuid/setgid/etc. files with a color, but there is no way to restore the old (coreutils 5.x?) behavior, i.e. that the setuid file gets the same color as it would when not having suid. Assume an /etc/DIR_COLORS of: NORMAL 0 FILE 0 EXEC 1;31 # bri

[patch 2/4] do not force color (part 2)

2008-06-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Do not hardcore any colors because that makes it harder to override them (see previous patch). --- src/dircolors.hin | 127 -- 1 file changed, 127 deletions(-) Index: coreutils-6.11/src/dircolors.hin ==

[patch 3/4] remove hardcoded colors

2008-06-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I think ls should not hardcode _any_ colors. --- src/ls.c | 18 +- tests/ls/color-dtype-dir |6 +++--- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: coreutils-6.11/src/ls.c === ---

[patch 4/4] treat symlinks in --group-dir as type pointed to

2008-06-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
If the symlink points to a directory, take it as one when sorting by directory is turned on. --- src/ls.c | 16 ++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: coreutils-6.11/src/ls.c === --- coreutils-6.

Re: coreutils-6.12.29-a16be - FAIL: misc/truncate-fail-diag.log

2008-06-21 Thread Pádraig Brady
Poor Yorick wrote: > Building latest snapshot of coreutils, coreutils-6.12.29-a16be, on SunOS 5.9, > with gcc-4.2.2 and gnu ld: > > FAIL: misc/truncate-fail-diag.log This is a bug in SunOS which is worked around in later gnulibs. Please try the latest snapshot just released. thanks, Pádraig.

Re: check-AUTHORS fails because of non ansi characters

2008-06-21 Thread Bruno Haible
> > |> 58c58 > > |> < ptx: Fran?ois Pinard This is not user friendly: proper_name_utf8 should not return a result with question marks. Instead it's better if it returns its first argument. I'm fixing it through the appended patch. But it will not fix the coreutils test failure. > > |> --- > > |>>

Re: coreutils-6.12.29-a16be - FAIL: misc/truncate-fail-diag.log

2008-06-21 Thread Poor Yorick
> From: Pádraig Brady <> > Sent: 2008-06-21 14:19 > > Poor Yorick wrote: > > Building latest snapshot of coreutils, coreutils-6.12.29-a16be, on SunOS > 5.9, > > with gcc-4.2.2 and gnu ld: > > > > FAIL: misc/truncate-fail-diag.log > > This is a bug in SunOS which is worked around in

Re: [patch 1/4] do not force suid color

2008-06-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default, ls highlights setuid/setgid/etc. files with a color, but > there is no way to restore the old (coreutils 5.x?) behavior, i.e. > that the setuid file gets the same color as it would when not having > suid. > > Assume an /etc/DIR_COLORS of: >

Re: [patch 1/4] do not force suid color

2008-06-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2008-06-21 19:37, Jim Meyering wrote: >To make it red instead of green, you might use this: > >$ LS_COLORS='ex=1;31:sg=' ./ls -log --color This does not seem to work everywhere: $ LS_COLORS="" ./ls --color -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4096 Jun 21 20:00 /tmp [the usual 30;42]

Re: [patch 4/4] treat symlinks in --group-dir as type pointed to

2008-06-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the symlink points to a directory, take it as one when sorting > by directory is turned on. Thanks for the patch. This was discussed a few months ago, ending on this note: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12622/focus=12670 whe

Bug in command "uname"

2008-06-21 Thread Rastislav Vojtko
Dear developers, The "uname" command contains two bugs. If I type "uname -r" in terminal the result is "#1 SMP Wed May 28 20:27:26 UTC 2008", if I type "uname -v" in terminal the result is "2.6.24-18-generic" These two flags "-v, -r" of the "uname" command are most probably replaced. I work on G

Re: Bug in command "uname"

2008-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Rastislav Vojtko on 6/21/2008 3:31 PM: | Dear developers, | | The "uname" command contains two bugs. | | If I type "uname -r" in terminal the result is "#1 SMP Wed May 28 | 20:27:26 UTC 2008", | if I type "uname -v" in terminal the result

Re: Bug in command "uname"

2008-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 6/21/2008 4:25 PM: | Thanks for the report. However, this is a bug in coreutils, since it ~ ^ this is not a bug in coreutils (serves me right for hitting send too soon) :) - -- Don'

Re: really weird build problem on MacOSX/Tiger 10.4.11

2008-06-21 Thread sci-fi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:38:48 -0500 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm attaching a shortened make warning showing a problem with ID vs >> id under the src subdir, along with an ls listing of that same >> subdir. We're unable to get th