Re: version-etc tweak

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 11/12/2009 6:14 PM: > And I think it is good, because it > is consistent punctuation with the following lines: > > Report bugs to: @var{mailing-address} > @var{pkg} home page: > Gener

Re: version-etc tweak

> Report bugs to: m...@example.com > > while coreutils uses: > > Report PROGNAME bugs to m...@example.com Isn't the right approach to see if there is support for changing standards.texi first? We can change standards.texi. But (sorry) why is the coreutils text prefe

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > > chown will be harder, since there is no test-chown already written to > > start from. I'm starting to think I will have to use getgroups to see > > whether the current user has a supplementary group membership, since > > that's about the only observable suc

getgroups improvements

These days, I'm not sure how many systems still need the getgroups replacement because the system getgroups is buggy. However, there is the issue of mingw, which lacks getgroups, and for that matter, any notion of group management (well, windows does have groups, as evidenced by the fact that c

Re: version-etc tweak

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > For what it's worth, argp uses `Report bugs to > .', i.e. no package name. > My 2 cents for the sake of clarity: argp doesn't add the enclosing `<' '>'. Ben

Re: version-etc tweak

For what it's worth, argp uses `Report bugs to .', i.e. no package name.

Re: [PATCH] fts: do not fail on a submount during traversal

Kamil Dudka wrote: > we've discussed with Jim the issue with mounts triggered during directory > tree traversal and we've decided to make a trade-off for now - enable the > extra stat call only if the FTS_TIGHT_CYCLE_CHECK is set. This means it only > affects find and du for now and leaves other ut

Re: [PATCH] fts: do not fail on a submount during traversal

Hi Jim, On Thu November 12 2009 12:44:48 Jim Meyering wrote: > I've applied and pushed that. thanks for considering it! > I adjusted the comment, since I view this addition not as a feature, > but rather as a kludge to work around brokenness in the NFS4 > implementation. Even though it affects

[PATCH] bootstrap: sync from coreutils

FYI, >From 9efa515cee4d1a40a41bdcd20e29932f8e2e5102 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:49:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: sync from coreutils * build-aux/bootstrap (bootstrap_epilogue): New function. Use git_modules_config in one more place. This make boo

[PATCH] build: generalize autoheader check

FYI, I needed this for diffutils' use: AC_CONFIG_HEADER([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin]) I'll adjust the commit message for gnulib. >From 8c265a45e54a77003ce754fac893eaf292f7cd6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:38:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] build: generali