Re: fpending issues on LSB

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the same problem as before with size_t being used before > it is defined with this compiler. is one thing; it's not standardized. But is another. The compiler is seriously broken if does not define size_t. As I recall, the last main

Re: cvs build error with Apple-installed tools (Re: OT: latest stable version not recommended)

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seriously, would you take a look at my post's > attachment above that started this subthread, please? Sorry, I haven't a clue what started this thread. > It was the make that raised the bison error, not the > bootstrap script. After a bootstrap, when you do a 'make

Re: __attribute__ ((__format__)) in error.h [was: m4-1.4.7 build feedback]

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Adding the lists back to the reply, for closure on this topic] According to Nelson H. F. Beebe on 9/27/2006 6:19 AM: > About the build of m4-1.4.7 with sunc89 on GNU/Linux IA-32 Fedora > Core 5: > >>> Still, the fact that it is only complaining abou

Re: vasprintf on DEC

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Nelson H. F. Beebe on 9/27/2006 6:16 PM: > > I've just created some new config files for my automated build process > that drop the specification of the local library for snprintf(), and > did builds of m4-1.4.7 with both cc and with gcc;

Re: vasprintf on DEC

2006-09-27 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in response to my comments earlier today about a test failure of m4-1.4.7 that was traced to a deficient snprintf() library function that was added locally because that function is absent from the vendor libraries: >> ... >> > It looks like I have to go looki

Re: OT: latest stable version not recommended

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can I validly talk Apple into upgrading their provided gzip to 1.3.5 when this is not in the stable category (for _whatever_ reason[s])? If 1.3.5 is fine to use, it needs to be assigned as such, or Apple would find an argument to close the bug rathe

Re: fpending issues on LSB

2006-09-27 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Thanks for the proposed patch to the gnulib code. I applied it to a fresh copy of m4-1.4.7 on GNU/Linux IA-32 Fedora Core 5, and then did env CC=lsbcc ./configure && make Compilation failed at regex.c:57: ./regex.h:61: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__r

Re: OT: latest stable version not recommended

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I validly talk Apple into upgrading their provided gzip to 1.3.5 > when this is not in the stable category (for _whatever_ reason[s])? > If 1.3.5 is fine to use, it needs to be assigned as such, or Apple > would find an argument to close the bug rather quickly. D

Re: Dawrin- why does pinky SIGBUS

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That said, given the address when I set a breakpoint there, I am guessing it is the system getaddrinfo? Yes, that's right. I installed the following patch; does it fix things for you? - retval = strdup (res->ai_canonname); + r

Re: Dawrin- why does pinky SIGBUS

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That said, given the address when I set a breakpoint there, I am > guessing it is the system getaddrinfo? Yes, that's right. I installed the following patch; does it fix things for you? 2006-09-27 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/canon-host

Re: fpending issues on LSB

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, lsbcc has many of its own header files, including , > and it never includes , and thus, never gets definitions > of __BEGIN_DECLS and __END_DECLS. If lsbcc replaces glibc stdio.h, it must do so compatibly with glibc; otherwise a lot of g

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: speed up gnulib-tool a bit

2006-09-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > I'm applying this as the obvious fix. > > 2006-09-25 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * gnulib-tool (func_import, func_create_testdir): Fix typos in > 2006-09-18 patch. Thanks. It was more than a typo, actually a thinko :-( Bruno

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

2006-09-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim, > Is there any type of file system where readdir works? I tried only HFS+ mounts (on two different volumes). > What version of Darwin are you using? Darwin 7.9.0 = MacOS X 10.3.9. > I see no failure with Darwin-8.7.0, so I might > add a run-test (like coreutils' old readdir.m4), > if it's

Re: Updates to poll module

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * m4/poll.m4: Test for sys/ioctl.h and sys/filio.h. > * lib/poll.c (poll) [__APPLE__]: Use FIONREAD instead of MSG_PEEK. Looks reasonable to me. But you don't need our permission to install; you're the maintainer.

Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I'll use 180. >> The lower we go, the more of a performance penalty >> we impose for directories with very many entries. > > I tried the value 180. It worked fine in some cases, but still failed in > others: Bruno, Is there any type

OT: latest stable version not recommended (was: coreutils-cvs build error fixed)

2006-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > heh, it's nice to get a second opinion, but is there ever a case when > "the latest stable version" is ever _not_ recommended? ;) Yes, actually. gzip is one example. The latest stable version is 1.2.4a but it has been so long since a stable release and many problems

Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> I'll use 180. >>> The lower we go, the more of a performance penalty >>> we impose for directories with very many entries. >> >> I tried the value 180. It worked fine in some cases, but stil

Re: fpending issues on LSB

2006-09-27 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Paul Eggert asks about the build of m4-1.4.7 with lsbcc on GNU/Linux IA-32 (Fedora Core 5): >> ... >> Let's see what the bug is first. It could just be an installation messup. >> What is the output of this command? >> >> /opt/lsb/bin/lsbcc -E -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. close-stream.c >> ... I trie

Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I'll use 180. >> The lower we go, the more of a performance penalty >> we impose for directories with very many entries. > > I tried the value 180. It worked fine in some cases, but still failed in > others: ... > Thus, instead of tes

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

2006-09-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > I'll use 180. > The lower we go, the more of a performance penalty > we impose for directories with very many entries. I tried the value 180. It worked fine in some cases, but still failed in others: $ tar xf /Volumes/ExtData/bin.x86-linux/cross/cross-hppa.tar.gz $ ll cross/

Re: coreutils 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
* Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wl,--as-needed -o cp cp.o copy.o cp-hash.o ../lib/libcoreutils.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a | > ../lib/libcoreutils.a(xstrndup.o): In function `xstrndup': | > /home/gzp/src/coreutils-6.2/lib/xstrndup.c:37: undefined reference to `rpl_

here's my latest make check log on Darwin (Re: now getting a build error with coreutils-cvs (Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)))

2006-09-27 Thread sci-fi
(Unison won't let me attach a file to a message, nor will it let an upload come with a message, too lazy to switch to Thoth right now ;) so I'll do this via e-mail) I cvs update'd within the last half-hour. Builds seem to go fine. I ran make -k check with all the RUN*TESTS enabled I could di

Re: Make gnulib-tool --update less verbose

2006-09-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Here is the same stuff updated for the current version of gnulib-tool, there were quite a lot of changes since I made the patch! Paolo Index: gnulib-tool === RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/gnulib-tool,v retrieving revision 1.174 d

Make gnulib-tool --update less verbose

2006-09-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
While upgrading sed to use gnulib (at last), I started from the bison bootstrap script and gradually worked from there. In particular, I removed the quadraticness from the loop that Ralf fixed in gnulib-tool very recently and, after noticing the duplication, I set to use "gnulib-tool --update" wi

Updates to poll module

2006-09-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
I enclose the promised updates to the poll module in order to work around more braindeadness of the Tiger implementation of poll. recvfrom sometimes ignores MSG_PEEK on some file descriptors, e.g. pipes. We can more or less work around this using FIONREAD instead (on Mac OS X only, since the

Re: coreutils 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
"Gabor Z. Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wl,--as-needed -o cp cp.o copy.o cp-hash.o > ../lib/libcoreutils.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a > ../lib/libcoreutils.a(xstrndup.o): In function `xstrndup': > /home/gzp/src/coreutils-6.2/lib/xstrndup.c:37: undefined reference to