coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3 on Linux/glibc

2012-03-16 Thread Bruno Haible
On Linux/glibc platforms x86_64, hppa, ia64, ppc (32-bit), sparc (32-bit), coreutils compiles fine and passes all its tests and all of the gnulib tests, except as follows. On Linux/ppc, there are 2 test failures: FAIL: test-fdutimensat FAIL: test-futimens FAIL: test-utimens FAIL: test-utimensat

Re: [PATCH] tests: exercise two recently-fixed bugs

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/16/2012 02:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > the TABs (maybe required in glibc?) Yes, that's right. Currently I'm having problems getting mktime fixes back into glibc, and one of the issues is that we expanded tabs to spaces. What a hassle. > I consider grep's choice of when to use regex vs. DF

Re: Broken workflow

2012-03-16 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-gnulib] On 03/16/2012 04:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Eric Blake wrote: >>> Can anything be done to make things work in a git checkout without >>> having git available after bootstrap? Please? >> >> It should already be possible. To skip that check, run: >> >>

Re: [PATCH] tests: exercise two recently-fixed bugs

2012-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: >>> > I think we should give a "repeat count too large" error here. The regex >>> > is being compiled to a different meaning than what the user intended. >> Yes, definitely. >> In testing, I noticed that we diagnose the range error >> in the regexp path, but not in the DFA one,

Re: [PATCH] tests: exercise two recently-fixed bugs

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Eggert
>> > I think we should give a "repeat count too large" error here. The regex >> > is being compiled to a different meaning than what the user intended. > Yes, definitely. > In testing, I noticed that we diagnose the range error > in the regexp path, but not in the DFA one, but haven't > gotten aro

[PATCH] git-merge-changelog: add specific example on how to use with hg.

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Wielaard
* lib/git-merge-changelog.c: Add example on how to use in .hgrc. --- ChangeLog |5 + lib/git-merge-changelog.c | 10 +- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e600a1d..9650fc3 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++

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2012-03-16 Thread Mark Wielaard
Since I had to look things up and didn't get the setup correct the first try I thought it would be good to include specific instructions on how to use git-merge-changelog with Mercurial hg.

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/16/2012 04:03 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Lots of tests were failing on this loan machine... > The proposed gnulib patch avoids the issue for me. I proposed exactly that patch in January: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-01/msg00319.html but Bruno explained that this is a p

[PATCH] doc: some glibc x32 integer width issues

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Eggert
* doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi (sys/types.h): * doc/posix-headers/time.texi (time.h): Mention that glibc x32 does not conform to POSIX in a couple of areas related to integer widths. --- ChangeLog|8 doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi |5 + doc/posix-

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3

2012-03-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/16/2012 08:40 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > We want to release coreutils-8.16 soon, so here's a snapshot. > I'll let the NEWS and git shortlog details say the rest, > other than "Thanks!" to all who are helping. > > coreutils snapshot: > http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 4.8 MB >

Re: Unexpected frexpf implementation used by MSVC9 in C++ mode

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Goffioul
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Michael Goffioul wrote: >>> frexpf is actually defined as a macro in C, >>> and as an inline function in C++. >> >> Normally gnulib avoids collisions with system functions by check