On 03/03/17 17:45, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 09:25:50AM -0800, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.2 MB) from: >> https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz >> ( coreutils-8.26.61-10d1d ) > > Most of the issues were fixed, few minor issues remain - likely not show > stoppers. > > 1. > The Mac OS X issue ('test-lock') is fixed, no test failures. > > > 2. > On AIX7/PowerPC, the compilation succeeds (I think it's the first time for me) > but the build fails due to 'help2man' issue: > === > GEN man/test.1 > help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/test.td/[ > Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 127. > ===
I don't know how to avoid that as per: http://bugs.gnu.org/20733#139 I'm guessing building with gmake is OK. > 3. > On OpenSolaris 5.10 x86/sparc, no test failures. > > On OpenSolaris 5.11 x86/sparc, no coreutils failures, > but one gnulib test failed 'test-mbsalign'. > This is already known: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-07/msg00011.html > > > > 4. > On Debian 7.6, 'tests/misc/cut-huge-range' still fails. > Perhaps it's an issue with my tiny qemu virtual machine that has very > little memory (512MB or less). Interesting. The test may need to be marked expensive though I've not looked in detail. Strange that system is impacted only. > 5. > On systems with very old 'makeinfo 4.8' (such as all OpenBSDs and > FreeBSD 9/10) there is a small packaging regression that won't > affect the actual release, but I'll report anyhow: > > The current 'coreutils.texi' contains texinfo commands that don't > work in texinfo 4.8 - that is OK because the minimal version is 4.13. > > Normally this isn't a problem because the compiled 'coreutils.info' > is pre-built and pacakged and does not need to be regenerated. > > However I suspect that in this current snapshot archive you've prepared > you did not start from a 'maintainer-clean' or 'distclean' state. > The result is that 'doc/stamp-vti' is newer than 'doc/version.texi' > and 'make' needed to regenerate the 'info' file. Ah I did not clean before hand. > The entire test batch results are available here: > https://pretest.housegordon.org/q/coreutils-8.26.61 Looking good to release early next week I think. thanks! Pádraig
