Re: tmpdir on windows

Hello John, John Darrington wrote: > In PSPP we are using the path_search function from the tmpdir module to > determine the path for temporary files. > > Windows users have complained that it puts temporary files in places they > consider to be inappropriate. I did a bit of research, and found

Re: buggy gnulib snapshots

Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > I wonder if there is a way to better the odds of being lucky w/ gnulib. In general, yes, you are more lucky on average with the stable releases [1] than with snapshots. In this particular case, no, the gnulib-20110216-stable.tar.gz release contained the bug. A better qu

Re: patch-2.6.1.136-31a7 compilation failures on SGI IRIX

() Bruno Haible () Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:59:05 +0200 The tarball of patch-2.6.1.136-31a7 was unlucky enough to pick up one of the buggy versions. I wonder if there is a way to better the odds of being lucky w/ gnulib.

Re: [bug-patch] patch-2.6.1.136-31a7 compilation failures on SGI IRIX

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote in : > With native cc and c89, compilation of patch-2.6.1.136-31a7 on SGI IRIX > fails like this: > > CC verror.o > cc-1129 c89: ERROR File = verror.h, Line = 35 > A left brace ("{") is expected at

RE: [bug-diffutils] [PATCH] Avoid gcc warning on Stratus OpenVOS building regex.c

Sure, I'll take care of it. Thanks PG -- Sr. Technical Consultant, Stratus Technologies Inc. Work: +1-978-461-7557; FAX: +1-978-461-3610; Twitter: stratuspaulg -Original Message- From: Bruno Haible [mailto:br...@clisp.org] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 1:18 PM To: Green, Paul; bug-gnu

Re: ready for coreutils-8.13

[re-adding bug-gnulib to the Cc list] Dmitry Sivachenko wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:33:04PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Once we have the parse-datetime T patch, >> I'll be ready to release coreutils-8.13. >> It's been almost 4 months and over 170 commits since 8.12, >> so we're overdue.

Re: [bug-diffutils] [PATCH] Avoid gcc warning on Stratus OpenVOS building regex.c

Hi Paul Green, Paul Green wrote in : > +# if defined __i386__&& !defined __EMX__&& !defined __VOS__ We take our macros to test from particular systems from . But I don't see Stratus OpenVOS li

Re: Portability issue for error_tail().

Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> IMHO the latter (enhancing gcc) makes more sense. > > OK, I've reported it as a GCC bug here: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50154 Thanks!

Re: Portability issue for error_tail().

Jim Meyering wrote: > IMHO the latter (enhancing gcc) makes more sense. OK, I've reported it as a GCC bug here: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50154 Bruno -- In memoriam Alexander Bessmertny