test-float fails on regular PowerPC, too.

2011-09-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, test-float fails on PowerPC (not PowerPC64), too. This causes testsuite failures in grep 2.9 and GnuTLS 2.12.10. There is bug report on savannah for grep. - (sid)ametzler@pescetti:~/GNUTLS/grep-2.9/gnulib-tests$ ./test-float test

Re: test-float fails on regular PowerPC, too.

2011-09-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello, Andreas Metzler wrote: > test-float fails on PowerPC (not PowerPC64), too. This causes > testsuite failures in grep 2.9 and GnuTLS 2.12.10. There is bug report > on savannah for grep. > - > (sid)ametzler@pescetti:~/GNUTLS/grep-2.

Merge autoconf-archive into gnulib?

2011-09-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
I'm a regular user of both gnulib and autoconf-archive. Using macros from autoconf-archive is fairly straightforward, but it seems to me they could benefit from being merged into gnulib, one ax_foo gnulib module per ax_foo autoconf-archive macro. This would bring the following advantages: 1. No ne

Re: coreutils-8.12.178-df9cd on Solaris 10

2011-09-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Re : > So, in summary, there are two problems: > - 'cp' creates a nontrivial ACL for a directory when the original > directory had none. > - chmod 700 does not change the 'delete_child' bit for owner to "allow". > > I propo

Re: Merge autoconf-archive into gnulib?

2011-09-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Reuben, > Using macros > from autoconf-archive is fairly straightforward, but it seems to me > they could benefit from being merged into gnulib, one ax_foo gnulib > module per ax_foo autoconf-archive macro. It is true that gnulib and autoconf-archive are similar in the sense that both of th