On Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:30:39 AM CEST Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 08/08/2018 09:49 AM, Karl Nordström wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to ask whether there is a new release for findutils comming up? > > > > I want to add it to conda-forge and am having trouble passing make > > check. Partly perhaps due to inexperience, but I think some of the tests > > have been updated since 4.6.0. I think one such example is mbrtowc: > > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=1f63650823cebf52044 > > df840c81062ccb52163a2 > > > > The build system is very bare-bones and I'm also having problems with > > strftime and the 'ahistorical' tests. Here I haven't delved as deep. > > > > Currently I lean towards skipping the tests. Would you be terribly > > opposed to that? > > > > Best, > > > > Karl > > Hi Karl, > > indeed, a new cut of the GNU findutils is overdue: we have already 187 > commits since v4.6.0 which was released around Xmas 2015. > I have a few things open on my side, but then need to find some time to do > the release together with James. > > Re. the tests: in that situation, I'd try to skip the gnulib tests, > and only let the find/xargs tests run. Or you can try with a new snapshot > tarball created with './bootstrap && ./configure && make all dist' from a > git clone.
... or just pick the upstream commit(s) to make the test-suite pass again, as we do in Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/findutils.git/commit?id=3f5b9b5d Kamil > Have a nice day, > Berny
