Yes, I also guess that I have to use the equally old gnulib. The problem is I can use git to switch to the old version of findutils, but I don't know how to obtain the corresponding old snapshot of gnulib.
2011/4/3 Kamil Dudka <[email protected]> > On Saturday 02 April 2011 19:54:48 Kai YU wrote: > > Hi, I'm currently investigating how to fight software regressions > with > > git bisect. Particularly, I want to use git bisect to help locate the > > #Bug12181 (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12181). However, when I use > "git > > checkout FINDUTILS_4_2_18-1" to switch to the version 4.2.18, it fails to > > compile. Moreover, I noticed that FINDUTILS_4_2_18-1.tar.gz (from > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/snapshot/FINDUTILS_4_2_18-1 > . > >tar.gz) is different from findutils-4.2.18.tar.gz (from > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.2.18.tar.gz). My question > is, > > how to get the code of findutils 4.2.18 (which can be successfully > > compiled) by git automatically? > > My guess is that you are using an incompatible version of gnulib for the > old > release of findutils. Did you try it with an equally old snapshot of > gnulib? > > Kamil > >
