Re: coreutils-{6,7} will not compile on AIX 6.1

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
"Jeremy Olexa" wrote: > New subscriber here and I would like to get some help with this issue > on AIX 6.1. > > Here is the relevant code snippet: > depbase=`echo getloadavg.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\ > powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0-gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -g -O2 -MT > getloadavg.o

[PATCH] remove duplicate inclusion of

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
No big deal, but... Ok, Bruno? >From 24cb49400d1349f29f745e74979b5ce45022288f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:08:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] remove duplicate inclusion of --- tests/test-fprintf-posix.c |1 - tests/test-printf-posix.c|1 - tes

Re: pathchk info page should mention other leading brand

2009-01-04 Thread jidanni
OK, but I would still say "By portability we are not talking about portability to other operating systems!" ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: [PATCH] remove duplicate inclusion of

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > No big deal, but... ... > tests/test-fprintf-posix.c |1 - > tests/test-printf-posix.c|1 - > tests/test-snprintf-posix.c |1 - ... I've just reposted this to bug-gnulib. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-core

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
"Vitali Lovich" wrote: > I've read the proposed patches that have been batted around on the mailing > list (after coming up with my own implementation :D of course). My proposed > solution is less generic, but I believe more robust, than the other > approaches. > > I've proposed my reasoning belo

Re: pathchk info page should mention other leading brand

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: ... Thanks! That looks fine. Minor nits in log message: >>From fbe9201e5e2812bfc112ea05c317b194c98bb4f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= > Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 01:06:10 + > Subject: [PATCH] doc: pathchk description enhancements > > * d

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

2009-01-04 Thread Vitali Lovich
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > "Vitali Lovich" wrote: > > Thanks for the patch and for writing up your assumptions. > > The above requirement is key... and perhaps too restrictive. > I.e., it makes it sound like your sort could mishandle > sizes printed by a mix of output

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

2009-01-04 Thread Vitali Lovich
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > However, this assumption might be acceptable (other opinions welcome), > on the condition that the code behind this option diagnoses any violation. Sorry - I missed responding to this part in the previous e-mail. Could you please clarify - wh

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

2009-01-04 Thread Vitali Lovich
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Vitali Lovich wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> "Vitali Lovich" wrote: >> >> Thanks for the patch and for writing up your assumptions. >> >> The above requirement is key... and perhaps too restrictive. >> I.e., it makes it sound li

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

2009-01-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Vitali Lovich on 1/4/2009 3:41 PM: > I'll upload it to launchpad (do people here mind, > or is it better form if I post the patches to the mailing list?) I'd much rather review an inline patch sent via this list than fire up my browser (o

Re: pathchk info page should mention other leading brand

2009-01-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > OK, but I would still say "By portability we are not talking about > portability to other operating systems!" OK, I just pushed the previous patch with the additional tweak of amending "portable file name character set" to "POSIX portable file name character set". che

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
"Vitali Lovich" wrote: ... > I'll upload it to launchpad (do people here mind, > or is it better form if I post the patches to the mailing list?) Please post change-sets to this mailing list. To keep ubuntu folks in the list, you could give them a link to this mailing list thread: http://threa

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

2009-01-04 Thread Vitali Lovich
Will do. I'm probably going to pick-up an intel wireless card tomorrow, so I'll be able to get the latest patch off of my desktop. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > "Vitali Lovich" wrote: > ... >> I'll upload it to launchpad (do people here mind, >> or is it better form if I