Here's a snapshot of the latest sources from coreutils and the parts of gnulib that it uses. Please beat it up ;-) If things work out, I may even make a test release by Wednesday.
coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz 9.0 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma 3.8 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma.sig aka http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.gz http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.lzma Changes since 6.12.70-4f470: Andreas Schwab (1): mknod: correct misplaced -Z description in --help output Benno Schulenberg (34): doc: correct and normalize --help output of several tools who: Gettextize two forgotten strings cp: move a newline to make second message identical to others doc: put the exitstatus paragraph in a better place printenv: say what it does when variables are specified date: remove confusing and unneeded sentence from --help doc: remove stray word from date's field width description dd: clarify meaning of multiplication factors; put xM in order echo: gettextize the alternative option description too factor: remove duplicate docstring; use the more detailed one doc: the quote operator for expr is '+', not 'quote' echo: correct description of \c fmt: remove the 'no file' sentence; the standard phrase is given below id: gettextize a few missed tiny strings id: remove superfluous condition test; it is caught at -Z above groups: let synopsis show that the command allows multiple usernames kill: micro grammar nit in description of SIGNAL mkfifo, mknod --help: put -Z option in its alphabetical position od --help: avoid concatening two messages without a newline nohup, remove, tr: also gettextize the alternative messages od: ungettextize debugging messages pr --help: elide arguments after short options that allow a space remove.c: move comment to right before string, so gettext will pick it up rmdir --help: use lower case in option description; adjust indentation sort --help: sort the options better alphabetically stty --help: correct the alignment of an entry shred --help: lowercase a stray capital tail --help: move the --retry entry into alphabetical order tail: gettextize the string, "standard input" tr --help: gettextize a single paragraph as a single string uptime --help: put together message parts that belong together who --help: add a general description doc: alphabetize 'who's option descriptions pinky: gettextize two missed strings Bruce Korb (1): sort: new option, --sort=version, for version number ordering Bruno Haible (1): doc: clarify wc -L documentation Eric Blake (4): sort: improve usage wording .gitattributes: generalize .gitignore: ignore more files ls: adjust to gnulib change James Youngman (6): factor arbitrarily large numbers factor: credit Torbjörn Granlund Document uptime. document the supported baud rates beyond 38400 doc: mv,cp: undocument the --reply option expr: support arbitrary-precision arithmetic Jerry Snitselaar (1): env, groups: remove duplicate inclusion of <getopt.h> Jim Meyering (68): truncate: handle the case in which off_t != intmax_t bootstrap.conf: don't list "open" specifically * HACKING: use shorter "-1" (over HEAD~1) with git format-patch shred: also ignore EISDIR upon failed fsync/fdatasync on HP-UX * TODO: Add item: remove uses of imaxtostr. tests: fix make distcheck failure due to TODO change tests: adjust c99-to-c89 patch as well as the code to generate it factor out time_t-to-string conversion idiom base64: don't rely on feof returning 0/1 avoid a -Wsign-compare warning uniq: remove redundant test mkfifo: correct misplaced -Z description in --help output doc: add "..." to Usage, to indicate there may be multiple OPTIONs * README-hacking: Update the section on LZMA. install with just-built ./ginstall only when not cross-compiling who -r: don't print "last=" when the corresponding byte is unprintable * bootstrap: Remove $bt and $bt2 also when not using gettext. make check: accommodate stricter POSIX-conforming shells fix two bugs in ptx * HACKING: describe how to find a misplaced change-set dircolors.hin: add Ogg/Theora-related extensions * THANKS: Update, now that I have a name for jemm4jemm. tests: ensure "make check" w/tainted build dir no longer impacts $HOME tests: do not run chmod on a prefix of space-embedded tmpdir dd: adjust --help output so help2man formats the man page properly dd: minor fullblock changes shuf: honor --zero-terminated option even with --input-range=LO-HI * NEWS: Move shuf --zero-terminated item into bug-fixes section. bootstrap: work also when there are no .po files in po/ * timeout.c: Fix grammar in a comment. Normalize comment syntax. doc: make it clear we're talking about the Linux kernel false: mark "false" description for translation * tests/misc/expr: Add tests of the new GMP-based code. expr: avoid compiler warnings * coreutils.texi (factor invocation, expr invocation): Adjust wording. dd.c: reduce duplication in new O_FULLBLOCK-defining code * .gitattributes: Better diff output for texinfo sources. sort: don't print uninitialized in diagnostic sort: avoid erroneous cast sort: remove unnecessary declaration of strtod mktemp, sort, tac: don't use undefined after mkstemp failure "expr --bignum 1" now fails when expr is built without libgmp set envvars via "env" to avoid spurious set -x output from bad shells adjust bootstrap: preserve permissions of more copied files use new global, "Version", rather than macro, VERSION generate version.c and version.h TODO: add an item for a chmod optimization tests: don't fail due to built-in sleep from Solaris 11's /bin/sh tests: don't let rounding-to-1KB blocks provoke a failure tests: work around Solaris 11 bug tests: move input-tty into a test-lib.sh function tests: use "Exit $fail", not (exit $fail); exit $fail tests: don't use "local" in bourne shell scripts doc: mention which commands may be built-in functions tweak wording and check to avoid failure tests: temporarily disable part of "make distcheck" tests: reenable disabled test, now that automake can handle it stat: remove obsolete and undocumented option, --filesystem doc: coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Add an example. cp.c: adjust a comment to make it consistent with documentation maint: avoid using find -name Makefile.am; could get false positives maint: relax a check so "make distcheck" succeeds again seq -0.1 0.1 2: print final number when locale's decimal point is "," maint: allow more C99 constructs; stop maintaining c99-to-c89 patch set * maint.mk (my-distcheck): remove duplicate c99-related test code remove.c: don't use xmalloc; don't let obstack call exit on failure rm -r: avoid O(n^2) performance for a directory with very many entries John David Anglin (1): ls: ignore spurious getfilecon failure due to lack of SELinux support Kamil Dudka (5): dd: new option: iflag=fullblock to accumulate full input blocks ls -U1 now uses constant memory ls: --color now highlights files with capabilities, too df: new option: --total to print grand totals install: new option: --strip-program, Mikael Magnusson (1): shuf: correctly document --head-count Ondřej Vašík (1): doc: describe who's -p, -r, and -t options Peter O'Gorman (1): tests: accommodate difference in an AIX 5.3 diagnostic Pádraig Brady (5): truncate: Fix integer portability issues truncate: silence -Wsign-compare warnings timeout: fix invalid argument tests truncate: ignore whitespace in --size parameters tests: expand: test for lines starting with both spaces and tabs Ralf Wildenhues (7): tests: again, do not change the mode of all directories below $HOME * bootstrap: Fix unportable expr usage. tests: fix build-aux/check.mk for non-GNU make fix minor shell issues in test suite simplify installation rules, using new Automake various VPATH-related fixes fix installation with ./ginstall in src Reuben Thomas (1): doc: add example .bashrc code for a ~/.dircolors file _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
