Re: Buildbot failures

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org writes: Several modules -- acl, argmatch, backupfile, closeout, copy-file, etc, essentially all failed modules except fts-lgpl -- now fail with an error output like the one below. Any ideas what may have caused this? It seems absolute-header.m4

clean-temp and large files

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
Is there any reason that using the clean-temp module does not AC_REQUIRE ([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE]) in the configure script? Without that, it is possible on some hosts that temporary files are artificially capped at 2GiB, even though enabling largefile support could make things behave otherwise. As

Re: proposed patches to mbchar, mbswidth, wcwidth to use new wctype module

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU writes: Now that we have a wctype module we can simplify some of the other modules to just include wctype.h and depend on the wctype module. Here is a proposed patch. 2006-12-21 Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu * lib/mbchar.h: Just include

Re: Is / distinct from //?

2006-12-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Paul Eggert said: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:10:26 -0800 (But I've long been tempted to tender a suggestion that the guessers should supply a version for z/OS as they do for other OSes.) Sounds reasonable to me. Can you please suggest patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?

Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU writes: This is following up on the thread here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-12/msg00017.html ... We could put this into every source file that includes wctype.h, but I think it's cleaner to have a wctype module that handles