Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

Paul Eggert CS.UCLA.EDU> writes: > > This is following up on the thread here: > > ... > We could put this into every source file that includes wctype.h, > but I think it's cleaner to have a wctype module that handles > wcty

Re: Is / distinct from //?

Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I need to figure out why configure can't make getmntinfo work. > It works on Solaris, so I guess that becomes my experimental > control. It's a known problem on z/OS. We are hoping that some z/OS expert can port that part of coreutils, so that we

Re: Is / distinct from //?

In a recent note, Paul Eggert said: > Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:10:26 -0800 > > > (But I've long been tempted to tender a suggestion that the > > guessers should supply a version for z/OS as they do for other > > OSes.) > > Sounds reasonable to me. Can you please suggest patches to > <[EMAIL PR

Re: proposed patches to mbchar, mbswidth, wcwidth to use new wctype module

Paul Eggert CS.UCLA.EDU> writes: > > Now that we have a wctype module we can simplify some of the other > modules to just include and depend on the wctype module. > Here is a proposed patch. > > 2006-12-21 Paul Eggert cs.ucla.edu> > > * lib/mbchar.h: Just include ; the wctype module

clean-temp and large files

Is there any reason that using the clean-temp module does not AC_REQUIRE ([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE]) in the configure script? Without that, it is possible on some hosts that temporary files are artificially capped at 2GiB, even though enabling largefile support could make things behave otherwise. As a

Re: Buildbot failures

Simon Josefsson josefsson.org> writes: > > Several modules -- acl, argmatch, backupfile, closeout, copy-file, > etc, essentially all failed modules except fts-lgpl -- now fail with > an error output like the one below. > > Any ideas what may have caused this? It seems absolute-header.m4 > shou

Buildbot failures

Hi! I returned from vacation today, and I had a look at the gnulib buildbot summary available from: http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/ Several modules -- acl, argmatch, backupfile, closeout, copy-file, etc, essentially all failed modules except fts-lgpl -- now fail with an error output like

Re: converting gnulib: cvs to git

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 12/4/2006 2:21 AM: > So far, no one has objected to my proposal to convert gnulib development > from cvs to git. If there are any nay-sayers, it's time to speak up. > > I've just gone through the conversion process once m