SIGPIPE not properly reset with 'trap - PIPE'

Hello bug-bash readers, I noticed the following bash bug when using gnulib-tool. The script below outputs foo: line 20: echo: write error: Broken pipe foo: line 21: echo: write error: Broken pipe with bash 3.2.48(5)-release on GNU/Linux, whereas I think it should be silent. Please note that th

Re: GNUmakefile includes maint.mk but does not depend on maintainer-makefile

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/10/2008 1:42 PM: > Either gnumakefile should also depend on maintainer-makefile (which > means both modules could be merged), or for example 'sinclude' aka > '-include' should be used to include maint.mk, or at least

Re: relocatable-prog-wrapper requires gl_HEADER_ERRNO_H

Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok to apply? It looks good to me but I'd say that Bruno is authoritative on this. > relocatable-prog-wrapper depends on errno > [...] -- "Unix... is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subcultur

unilbrk/tables depends on unitypes

Hello Bruno, OK to commit? lib/unilbrk/tables.h #include's unitypes.h, otherwise causing a compile failure with gnulib-tool --test unilbrk/tables Thanks, Ralf * modules/unilbrk/tables (Depends-on): Add unitypes. diff --git a/modules/unilbrk/tables b/modules/unilbrk/tables index 657f1

strtoull depends on stdlib

Hello gnulib maintainers, gnulib-tool --with-tests --test strtoull gives me configure.ac:112: warning: gl_STDLIB_H_DEFAULTS is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd glm4/strtoull.m4:7: gl_FUNC_STRTOULL is expanded from... configure.ac:27: gl_INIT is expanded from... configure.ac:112: the top level

relocatable-prog-wrapper requires gl_HEADER_ERRNO_H

Hello Bruno, Ben, ok to apply? Thanks, Ralf relocatable-prog-wrapper depends on errno * modules/relocatable-prog-wrapper (Depends-on): Sort entries, add errno module, for gl_HEADER_ERRNO_H. diff --git a/modules/relocatable-prog-wrapper b/modules/relocatable-prog-wrapper

GNUmakefile includes maint.mk but does not depend on maintainer-makefile

Hello all, maintainer-makefile depends on gnumakefile, but not vice versa, yet top/GNUmakefile (which is part of the latter module) includes maint.mk (which is part of the former) unconditionally. Either gnumakefile should also depend on maintainer-makefile (which means both modules could be merg

Re: a good pdf-to-text converter? [Re: POSIX 2008 available

Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do any of you know of a pdf-to-text converter that is better than >> pdftotxt? pdftotxt does not preserve line breaks, table formatting, >> displayed code, etc. Even the official .txt version of the previous >> rel

Re: a good pdf-to-text converter? [Re: POSIX 2008 available

Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do any of you know of a pdf-to-text converter that is better than > pdftotxt? pdftotxt does not preserve line breaks, table formatting, > displayed code, etc. Even the official .txt version of the previous > release of POSIX had many conversion-artifact

AC_HEADER_ASSERT: don't say assertions are disabled when they're not

I was surprised to see assertions being turned off by default: $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) AC_HEADER_ASSERT AC_OUTPUT $ autoheader && autoconf && ./configure checking whether to enable assertions... no <-- wrong! default is to enable con

Re: date(1): -d argument parsing error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to James Youngman on 12/10/2008 3:08 AM: > I'm normally reluctant to accept the need to change getdate.y (though > this is not my call anyway of course, I'm not a maintainer) because of > the fact that it's been around a long time and somebod

Re: POSIX 2008 available

Eric Blake wrote: > POSIX 2008 is now freely available at: > > http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c082.htm > > which, once you accept a cookie, redirects to: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm With this patch, the generated MODULES.html file refers to the new POS

Re: a good pdf-to-text converter? [Re: POSIX 2008 available

Hi Jim, > Do any of you know of a pdf-to-text converter that is better than > pdftotxt? pdftotxt does not preserve line breaks, table formatting, > displayed code, etc. Even the official .txt version of the previous > release of POSIX had many conversion-artifact errors. I would use a good html

a good pdf-to-text converter? [Re: POSIX 2008 available

Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > POSIX 2008 is now freely available at: > > http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c082.htm > > which, once you accept a cookie, redirects to: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm > > [My favorite page - the new examples section for t

Re: date(1): -d argument parsing error

Not sure if it's a bug but it is confusing. I have a little wrapper script that I've been using for years to bypass this issue: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/day Pádraig.

Re: date(1): -d argument parsing error

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Jan Minář <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/10 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> $ date -d "next `LC_ALL=C date +%A`" >> mercredi 10 décembre 2008, 00:00:00 (UTC+) > ^^^ > > You've just demonstrated that the bug is present in the French