Re: [PATCH] strchrnul: work around cygwin bug

2011-04-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, A misplaced * means that cygwin 1.7.9 dereferences NULL rather than returning the location of the trailing NUL byte. This bug would have been avoided if the Cygwin people had taken the unit test from gnulib before releasing Cygwin 1.7.9. You contributed this test yourself, three years

Re: bug#8507: Bug report coreutils 8.11, i386-pc-solaris2.7

2011-04-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Andreas Stolcke wrote: On a i386-pc-solaris2.7 system, mktemp goes into an infinite loop. The wrapper function definition for gettimeofday() is broken, so the function keeps calling itself. Thanks for the report and patch. This relates to gnulib, so I've Cc'd that list. ***

Re: surprising behavior of gettext module

2011-04-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ben. The gettext module says in its configure.ac section that it invokes AM_GNU_GETTEXT: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.1]) This would ordinarily lead one to believe that it is not necessary to invoke AM_GNU_GETTEXT elsewhere in

Re: [PATCH] strchrnul: work around cygwin bug

2011-04-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:10:41PM CEST: Maybe we should advertise this more? That gnulib is not only for programmers but also contains a test suite for part of POSIX. For example, we could mention this in the documentation, on the web pages, and upload on ftp