Re: backup question

2006-11-22 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 07:42:58PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hello Sylvain, > > Can you please tell: Are the git repositories visible in > > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/ > > stored on a disk that is regularly backed up? If so, with which frequency > (daily, weekly, monthly)? > > I'm

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand this rationale. C89 requires that the switch > expression be of integral type. For C89 compilers with the long > long int extension, a long long int is an integral type No, because there's no standard for the "long long int" extension i

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, but that doesn't matter. When st_size is used that way (when > ->fts_info == FTS_NSOK), its value must be FTS_STAT_REQUIRED (1) or > FTS_NO_STAT_REQUIRED (2). If there is a way to make it have any other > value, it's a bug. Yes, but the point o

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Come to think of it, since we want the code to stay portable to C89, > then we can't use switch (V) ... when V is of type off_t. This is > because off_t is typically 'long long int', and C89 (which lacks 'long > long int') does not require support for a s

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> +enum Fts_stat need_stat = p->fts_statp->st_size; >> +switch (need_stat) > > Dunno if this matters, but on typical 64-bit platforms converting to > enum Fts_stat and then switching w

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + enum Fts_stat need_stat = p->fts_statp->st_size; > + switch (need_stat) Dunno if this matters, but on typical 64-bit platforms converting to enum Fts_stat and then switching won't abort in the rare cases when p->fts_stat

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the report and patch. > What version of HP-UX (and, if possible, the compiler) is that? > It must be rather old. Come to think of it, since we want the code to stay portable to C89, then we can't use switch (V) ... when V is of type off_t. Th

Re: coreutils-6.5: yet another C89 problem

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, happen to have a quick how-to? (A cron job that *doesn't* mail me > unless there is a problem would be nice :-).) http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/ I haven't built one myself, but others have

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The OS is 11.00, and I can't tell about the compiler ('cc -v' is giving FYI, I've checked in a slightly different change: Work around a compile-time error from the HP-UX 11.00 /bin/cc. * lib/fts.c (enum Fts_stat): Give this previously-a

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jim Meyering wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: I got the following error (in gnulib) building coreutils 6.6 on HP-UX. source='fts.c' object='fts.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=hp /bin/sh ../build-aux/depcomp \ cc -I. -I/home/install/gnu/hp700_hpux/include -g -c fts.c cc:

Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got the following error (in gnulib) building coreutils 6.6 on HP-UX. > >> source='fts.c' object='fts.o' libtool=no \ >> DEPDIR=.deps depmode=hp /bin/sh ../build-aux/depcomp \ >> cc -I. -I/home/install/gnu/hp700_hpux/include -g -c

coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Woehlke
I got the following error (in gnulib) building coreutils 6.6 on HP-UX. source='fts.c' object='fts.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=hp /bin/sh ../build-aux/depcomp \ cc -I. -I/home/install/gnu/hp700_hpux/include -g -c fts.c cc: "fts.c", line 734: error 1654: Expression ty

Re: git for Darwin?

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: ... > but we'd commit changes only against the git repo > > That was my point. Have you written a cheat sheet for coreutils git > users? Or maybe one exists independently? You know, > (a) how to check out On the command line, it's probably best to start

Re: version control system

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> > - automatic daily backup, >> >> Not relevant. >> With git or hg, anyone who pulls gets the entire repository. > > Hmm, but if the central repository got lost, and was restored through - say - > my copy, everyone would see my temporary branches, No

Re: coreutils-6.5: yet another C89 problem

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: I could probably do it on this box, but since it's Linux, it would still be with gcc. Even that would be helpful, since our current buildbot doesn't do the particular combination of GCC options you're interested in. Ok, happen to have a quick how-to

Re: coreutils-6.5: yet another C89 problem

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could probably do it on > this box, but since it's Linux, it would still be with gcc. Even that would be helpful, since our current buildbot doesn't do the particular combination of GCC options you're interested in.

Re: [bug-gnulib] git for Darwin?

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > As I understand it, the reason for the proposal is because branches are > supported better in git. But isn't wanting to make branches tantamount > to making releases? The reasons to make branches are: 1) for temporary small changes, testing etc., 2) for adding features tha

Re: [bug-gnulib] git for Darwin?

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Haible
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It'd be a blank slate for me, learning git from ground up. There are two tutorials for people with a CVS background: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html http://git.or.cz/course/cvs.html > How well/easily would git sessions work thru fi

backup question

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Sylvain, Can you please tell: Are the git repositories visible in http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/ stored on a disk that is regularly backed up? If so, with which frequency (daily, weekly, monthly)? I'm asking because we are considering moving gnulib to this area as well. Bruno

Re: version control system

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Haible
> > Do you have a comparison of git with mercurial, monotone, bzr? Reading the wikipedia articles on each of them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: git for Darwin?

2006-11-22 Thread Karl Berry
My suggestion to use a dVCS was mostly independent of branching. Oh. Sorry, I didn't get that. but we'd commit changes only against the git repo That was my point. Have you written a cheat sheet for coreutils git users? Or maybe one exists independently? You know, (a) how to check ou

Re: [bug-gnulib] kernel_sinl bug?

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Robinson Mittmann wrote: > Looking at the "kernel_sinl" function in "sincosl.c" file I found that > the limit value for choosing the computation method is wrong with > respect of the remaining code: > > kernel_sinl (long double x, long double y, int iy) > { > ... > if (x < 0.148375L)

Re: git for Darwin?

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: > this change would not force you to learn about or use git. > > Granting that git is a zillion times better than cvs, even so, far fewer > people can contribute to a git repository than cvs. > > As I understand it, the reason for the proposal is because br

Re: git for Darwin?

2006-11-22 Thread Karl Berry
this change would not force you to learn about or use git. Granting that git is a zillion times better than cvs, even so, far fewer people can contribute to a git repository than cvs. As I understand it, the reason for the proposal is because branches are supported better in git. But isn't w

kernel_sinl bug?

2006-11-22 Thread Robinson Mittmann
Looking at the "kernel_sinl" function in "sincosl.c" file I found that the limit value for choosing the computation method is wrong with respect of the remaining code: kernel_sinl (long double x, long double y, int iy) { ... if (x < 0.148375L)/* |x| < 0.1484375 */ The correct line sh

clock_time.m4, euidaccess.m4: tiny changes

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just checked these in: * m4/clock_time.m4 (gl_CLOCK_TIME): Quote AC_SUBST argument. * m4/euidaccess.m4 (gl_PREREQ_EUIDACCESS): Likewise. Index: m4/clock_time.m4 === RCS file: /sources/gnulib/gnulib/m4/clock_

Re: git for Darwin?

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-11-21 07:56:27 -0600, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Would anyone be averse to switching gnulib development from CVS to git? >> I switched coreutils a month ago and am very happy with the result. > > I found this Fink pkg -- is it the same thing? > ht

Re: version control system

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Would anyone be averse to switching gnulib development from CVS to git? >>> I switched coreutils a month ago and am very happy with the result. >> >> Do you have a comparison of git with mer

Re: version control system

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Would anyone be averse to switching gnulib development from CVS to git? >> I switched coreutils a month ago and am very happy with the result. > > Do you have a comparison of git with mercurial, monotone, bzr? There are *lots* of git