Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > * build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh: kill and uptime are not installed > by arch, debian, fedora, suse at least, so add to disabled list. > Fixes https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/132 > --- > build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh > b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh > index 454eba0aa..1892b1aeb 100755 > --- a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh > +++ b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh > @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ disabled_by_default_progs=' > arch > coreutils > hostname > + kill > + uptime > ' > > # Programs that can be built only when certain requisite system > @@ -76,7 +78,6 @@ normal_progs=' > head > id > join > - kill > link > ln > logname > @@ -131,7 +132,6 @@ normal_progs=' > unexpand > uniq > unlink > - uptime > vdir > wc > whoami
Should we have a NEWS entry? Just so we don't surprise any distributions who may have used them. Something like this: diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ed33d27aa..efe51d702 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- csplit, ls, and sort, now handle a more complete set of terminating signals. +** Build-related + + kill and uptime are no longer built by default. + These programs can be built with the --enable-install-program=kill,uptime + configure option. + * Noteworthy changes in release 9.9 (2025-11-10) [stable] Collin
