new snapshot available: coreutils-8.3.10-a4da4

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Meyering
I'm planning to release coreutils-8.4 tomorrow. It will be a build-fix-only release, along with a minor bug fix for the relatively new command, nproc. I've opted to take all of the many changes from gnulib up to this morning, because they seem safe. A few are required to fix actual problems. Not

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.2.52-4db2f

2010-01-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Jim, Jim Meyering writes: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Surprisingly “make dist” has been failing on Hydra for some time[*]: >> >> gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -g -O2 -c -o exclude.o exclude.c >> In file included from mbuiter.h:106, >> from exclude.c:38: >> mbchar.h: In function 'm

Re: coreutils-8.3: test failed: ls/stat-dtype and touch/no-dereference

2010-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
According to Eric Blake on 1/8/2010 11:55 AM: > > So it seems like this would do the trick (but I have not yet tested it on > a system with the mismatch between kernel and glibc, so no ChangeLog yet...) OK to apply before 8.4? -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: coreutils-8.3: test failed: ls/stat-dtype and touch/no-dereference

2010-01-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/01/10 12:59, Eric Blake wrote: According to Eric Blake on 1/8/2010 11:55 AM: So it seems like this would do the trick (but I have not yet tested it on a system with the mismatch between kernel and glibc, so no ChangeLog yet...) OK to apply before 8.4? I had previously acked that: http

Re: coreutils-8.3: test failed: ls/stat-dtype and touch/no-dereference

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/01/10 12:59, Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Eric Blake on 1/8/2010 11:55 AM: >>> >>> So it seems like this would do the trick (but I have not yet tested it on >>> a system with the mismatch between kernel and glibc, so no ChangeLog yet...) >> >> OK to apply before 8

Re: coreutils-8.3: test failed: ls/stat-dtype and touch/no-dereference

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 1/8/2010 11:55 AM: >> >> So it seems like this would do the trick (but I have not yet tested it on >> a system with the mismatch between kernel and glibc, so no ChangeLog yet...) > > OK to apply before 8.4? > > -- > Don't work too hard, make some time

Re: coreutils-8.3: test failed: ls/stat-dtype and touch/no-dereference

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Eric Blake on 1/8/2010 11:55 AM: >>> >>> So it seems like this would do the trick (but I have not yet tested it on >>> a system with the mismatch between kernel and glibc, so no ChangeLog yet...) >> >> OK to apply before 8.4? >> >> -- >> Don'

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.3.10-a4da4

2010-01-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/01/10 12:55, Jim Meyering wrote: I'm planning to release coreutils-8.4 tomorrow. It will be a build-fix-only release, along with a minor bug fix for the relatively new command, nproc. make check passes on solaris 10 and Fedora 8 (glibc-2.7)

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.3.10-a4da4

2010-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > I'm planning to release coreutils-8.4 tomorrow. > It will be a build-fix-only release, along with a minor bug fix > for the relatively new command, nproc. 3 failures on Solaris 8, but probably not worth worrying about since that platform is so old: FAIL: t

coreutils-8.3: a few tests fail

2010-01-12 Thread Christophe LYON
Hello, I have built coreutils-8.3 and ran 'make check' on a few systems and I have noticed some FAILs as follows. Given their old age, I am not sure it is worth reporting, though. * Linux RedHat 3/x86: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse, log extract: + kill -HUP 15829 [1]+ Hangup t