We plan to release coreutils-9.10 next week
so any testing you can do on various different systems
between now and then would be most welcome.
This release comes about 11 weeks after the 9.9 release.
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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (6.0 MiB) from:
https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = 0f23291766f247eb72065e3a8a4508fa
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To test, follow this standard procedure:
tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
cd coreutils-9.9.272-ebb85/
./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
Failures are shown, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
Please report/attach any issues to [email protected]
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This snapshot was bootstrapped with:
Autoconf 2.72.101-9513b
Automake 1.18.1
Gnulib v1.0-2601-g1c5e0277c2
Bison 3.8.2
Changes in coreutils since v9.9 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
Changes in coreutils and gnulib since the last snapshot are:
coreutils:
tail: fix EINTR handling on older systems
tests: avoid failures if 'ulimit -n' cannot set file descriptor limits
tests: dd: avoid EPERM false failure on Solaris
doc: nproc: mention OpenMP env vars in --help
build: update to latest gnulib
tests: recognize SELinux support on Android
tests: stty: avoid false failure if resizing terminal
tests: readlink: avoid a false failure on Haiku
doc: NEWS: add a missing quotation mark
tests: usage_vs_refs.sh: fix false failure with Alpine
doc: dir,vdir: add dircolors(1) reference to man pages
doc: dir,vdir: fix anchor refs from --help
doc: stat: fix highlighting of --format
doc: NEWS: minor adjustments
gnulib:
selinux-h: Fix compilation errors on Android outside Termux.
selinux-h: Fix compilation errors in Termux on Android.
doc: uimaxabs → umaxabs
getaddrinfo: Fix test failure on Solaris 10.
getdelim, getline: Don't replace these functions on glibc.
doc: document a portability issue with macOS getrusage.
vasnprintf: Optimize when 'long double' is the same as 'double'.
doc: mention an OpenBSD printf bug.
thank you!
Pádraig
