Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> | Software using gnulib should use errno exclusively, along with
> | standard Unix functions such as perror, strerror, etc., which Gnulib
> | may replace as necessary so these functions work correctly on
> | platforms that lack them (ie. Win32). All Gnulib POSIX replace
Jim Meyering writes:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> ...
>> Unfortunately I was never able to get anyone at Red Hat to sign a
>> copyright assignment license for me for gnulib, or to get the FSF to
>> agree that I didn't need one because I work for Red Hat.
>
> That is not an issue, since there is
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According to Eric Blake on 11/25/2009 6:41 AM:
> As discussed on coreutils; some Linux kernels support utimensat but not
> symlink timestamps. Now pushed.
Needs this fix when targetting cygwin 1.5:
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as
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According to Jim Meyering on 11/30/2009 3:55 AM:
> BTW, here's what 5.11.2 prints:
>
> $ perl --version |sed -n 2p
> This is perl 5, version 11, subversion 2 (v5.11.2-81-g162177c*) built for
> x86_64-linux
It looks like perl has switched to git! Bu
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> with F12's 5.10.0, I see this:
>>
>> $ perl -le 'print $]'
>> 5.01
>
> I didn't use $] in the adjusted get_version() I sent :)
>
>> So $^V appears to be out.
>>
>> Want to write the patch?
>> There must be something canonical and "easy" in P
Jim Meyering wrote:
> with F12's 5.10.0, I see this:
>
> $ perl -le 'print $]'
> 5.01
I didn't use $] in the adjusted get_version() I sent :)
> So $^V appears to be out.
>
> Want to write the patch?
> There must be something canonical and "easy" in Perl itself, considering
> the pre
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> Jim Meyering wrote:
I've built and have been experimenting with perl 5.11.2+
and hit a little snag: bootstrap was unable to extract
the version number from its new --version output.
To address that, I've cha
On 11/30/2009 10:16 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
My take from this is that we need a 'set_errno' function which is
equivalent to 'set_winsock_errno' and is used for all non-socket
functions.
For all non-socket functions that are mapped to Win32 functions, yes.
Here is the list that Wine uses,
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:57:13PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Win32 itself doesn't use or define a variable called 'errno', but
> gnulib does provide this variable when linked to Win32 programs.
This statement is inaccurate: Win32 does define errno, but only uses
it for some "system level"
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
...
> Unfortunately I was never able to get anyone at Red Hat to sign a
> copyright assignment license for me for gnulib, or to get the FSF to
> agree that I didn't need one because I work for Red Hat.
That is not an issue, since there is a blanket ("ANY") assignment
from
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> Jim Meyering wrote:
I've built and have been experimenting with perl 5.11.2+
and hit a little snag: bootstrap was unable to extract
the version number from its new --version output.
To address that, I've cha
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:16:04AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> My take from this is that we need a 'set_errno' function which is
Jim pointed out to me that calling it 'set_errno' is likely to be
confused with the glibc macro __set_errno. Call it 'win32_set_errno'
of whatever instead, but t
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> I've built and have been experimenting with perl 5.11.2+
>>> and hit a little snag: bootstrap was unable to extract
>>> the version number from its new --version output.
>>> To address that, I've changed bootstrap to special-case
It's not been stated in so many words, but from what I gather the
policy on errors in Gnulib is as follows.
| Software using gnulib should use errno exclusively, along with
| standard Unix functions such as perror, strerror, etc., which Gnulib
| may replace as necessary so these functions work cor
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