We don't normally mention build-related fixes in NEWS, but since it was looking like there'd be little else for 8.4, I've noted two.
>From 21a6a7f64c8dab1d07fbbc1ff25a58aaf706d08e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:50:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] nproc: return a possibly more accurate total CPU count * gnulib: Update, for num_processors() improvement. * NEWS: Mention the fix. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ gnulib | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 04a75cd..7f0c8e2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Bug fixes + + nproc --all is now guaranteed to be as large as the count + of available processors, which may not have been the case + on GNU/Linux systems with neither /proc nor /sys available. + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1] + ** Build-related Work around a build failure when using buggy <sys/capability.h>. diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib index c535f44..0a68a3d 160000 --- a/gnulib +++ b/gnulib @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit c535f4489b41f28afd115ae331d69595ea41b6a1 +Subproject commit 0a68a3d852c46f4d23bb0239c0e9f3398d71823f -- 1.6.6.511.gf46c4 >From 37b8bfda56adc0c633b041948ef78e53b8ce1add Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:52:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: mention the wchar.h vs. glibc build problem * NEWS (Build-related): Mention the wchar.h issue. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7f0c8e2..61e6a31 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Work around a build failure when using buggy <sys/capability.h>. Alternatively, configure with --disable-libcap. + Compilation would fail on systems using glibc-2.7..2.9 due to changes in + gnulib's wchar.h that tickled a bug in at least those versions of glibc's + own <wchar.h> header. Now, gnulib works around the bug in those older + glibc <wchar.h> headers. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.3 (2010-01-07) [stable] -- 1.6.6.511.gf46c4
