Re: proposed patch to allocsa, vasnprintf for Tandem NSK (OSS)

2006-10-11 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: #error "Right shift of integers of type char does not work!!" #error "Casts from char to short works by zero-extend!!" #error "Casts from char to int works by zero-extend!!" #error "Cas

Re: proposed patch to allocsa, vasnprintf for Tandem NSK (OSS)

2006-10-11 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Here are some proposed changes to the gnulib allocsa and vasnprintf modules prompted by the needs of porting coreutils to Tandem NSK (OSS), along with modernizing the code to use the newer macros like AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT rather than the older macros like gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG.

Re: [bug-gnulib] proposed patch to allocsa, vasnprintf for Tandem NSK (OSS)

2006-10-11 Thread mwoehlke
Bruno Haible wrote: Matthew, The citation in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-10/msg00062.html looks like it explains why no 'long long' type exists although the machine would support it. Are you sure the machine supports '[signed] long long'? Before we engage on a change as

Re: coreutils 6.3 on Tru64 - just plain broken, or...?

2006-10-09 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: source='xstrtoimax.c' object='xstrtoimax.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=tru64 /usr/bin/posix/sh ../build-aux/depcomp \ cc -std -I. -I. -I. -I/home/install/gnu/alpha_osf/include -g -c

Re: OT: latest stable version not recommended

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: http://directory.fsf.org/gzip.html; no mention there 1.3.5 is mentioned on that Directory page as the "(devel)" release. Anyway, I wrote rms about the lack of official releases in recent decades. For what it's worth, I was responsibl

Re: OT: latest stable version not recommended

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can I validly talk Apple into upgrading their provided gzip to 1.3.5 when this is not in the stable category (for _whatever_ reason[s])? If 1.3.5 is fine to use, it needs to be assigned as such, or Apple would find an argument to close the bug rathe

Re: Dawrin- why does pinky SIGBUS

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That said, given the address when I set a breakpoint there, I am guessing it is the system getaddrinfo? Yes, that's right. I installed the following patch; does it fix things for you? - retval = strdup (res-&g

Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

2006-09-26 Thread mwoehlke
Jim Meyering wrote: mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Did you try with 5.97? I haven't tried 6.2 yet (will try to do that No, since rm in that release is so different, and since I don't plan to make a 5.98 release. soon)... Um, actually, I am probably not going to t

Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

2006-09-25 Thread mwoehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [let me see if gmane lets me reply to posts] gmane works great, it's the only way I read this list (and several others). :-) btw, thanks for the mails... I just built coreutils on Darwin also, and had a good number of 'make check' failures. I am also noticing that