Re: glibc getopt bugs

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 12/1/2009 9:59 AM: > I just filed a couple of glibc bugs against getopt; depending on the reaction > I > get from the glibc folks, I may need to update gnulib's getopt accordingly. > > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/sh

Re: FreeBSD getopt failure

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: >> BTW, I just saw this go by while testing on freebsd8: >> >> ... >> Abort trap (core dumped) >> FAIL: test-getopt > > Which line number? Or better yet, a full backtrace, since test-getopt calls > some lines in a loop. Maybe a f

Re: argp vs ':', '+', and '-' in getopt

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
Sergey Poznyakoff gnu.org.ua> writes: > > Argp doesn't protect the user from picking short options that > > interfere with argp's getopt implementation. > > Thanks for reporting and for the patch. I'll apply it. argp should also protect against ';', since "W;" is special to getopt. -- Eric Bl

FreeBSD getopt failure (was: Solaris 10 nanosleep link failure)

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > BTW, I just saw this go by while testing on freebsd8: > > ... > Abort trap (core dumped) > FAIL: test-getopt Which line number? Or better yet, a full backtrace, since test-getopt calls some lines in a loop. Right now, getopt.m4 only filters ou

glibc getopt bugs

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
I just filed a couple of glibc bugs against getopt; depending on the reaction I get from the glibc folks, I may need to update gnulib's getopt accordingly. http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11039 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11040 At any rate, our unit test

Re: Solaris 10 nanosleep link failure

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: >> FYI, building latest coreutils on Solaris 10, >> I get this failure: >> >> CCLD sort >> Undefined first referenced >>symbol in file >> nanosleep ../

Re: Solaris 10 nanosleep link failure

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > > FYI, building latest coreutils on Solaris 10, > I get this failure: > > CCLD sort > Undefined first referenced >symbol in file > nanosleep ../lib/libcoreutils.a(xna

Solaris 10 nanosleep link failure

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, building latest coreutils on Solaris 10, I get this failure: CCLD sort Undefined first referenced symbol in file nanosleep ../lib/libcoreutils.a(xnanosleep.o) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No

Re: rm 8.1

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Ladislav Hagara wrote: >> the behaviour of rm from last stable coreutils 8.1 is quite different >> from previous 7.6 one. > >> Is this a bug or a new feature of rm 8.1? > > Thank you very much for the report! > That is most definitely a bug. > > The fix has two parts: ...

Re: rm 8.1

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Ladislav Hagara wrote: >> the behaviour of rm from last stable coreutils 8.1 is quite different >> from previous 7.6 one. > >> Is this a bug or a new feature of rm 8.1? > > Thank you very much for the report! > That is most definitely a bug. > > The fix has two parts: > >

Re: rm 8.1

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Ladislav Hagara wrote: > the behaviour of rm from last stable coreutils 8.1 is quite different > from previous 7.6 one. > Is this a bug or a new feature of rm 8.1? Thank you very much for the report! That is most definitely a bug. The fix has two parts: in gnulib: The fts_open function

Re: Error handling in Win32 + gnulib

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Simon Josefsson wrote: > 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. >> >> Tha