Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

2006-08-25 Thread Andreas Schwab
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nope, they use shadow; /bin/su on Debian stable comes from shadow 4.0.3, and testing and unstable come from 4.0.18.1. I don't know of any distribution using coreutils su now. (Not that I keep track of all this stuff) SuSE has always been using

Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

2006-08-25 Thread Greg Schafer
Paul Eggert wrote: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i believe Debian/Ubuntu use su from coreutils . Nope, they use shadow; /bin/su on Debian stable comes from shadow 4.0.3, and testing and unstable come from 4.0.18.1. I don't know of any distribution using coreutils su now.

Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is there anything I can do to help out with regard to this? Would you accept patches that add i18n related testcases, which XFAIL for the time being? Of course! Test case additions are always welcome.

RE: sort -u produces incorrect output

2006-08-25 Thread Bailey, Scott
A missing field_end shall mean the last character of the line. Therefore, your key consists of the entire line, and sort is doing exactly what you told it to do. Perhaps you meant: # sort -u -k1,1 -s x.x to limit the key to just the first field? Duh, you are exactly correct. (And so is sort...)

Re: gnulib and gettextize

2006-08-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: what is the recommended way to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], ...), gnulib-tool, and autopoint/autoreconf ... autopoint brings in yet another (incompatible) copy of them. Currently, there is a general problem: After a release is made, if users do a gnulib-tool --update,

Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

2006-08-25 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: mwoehlke writes: I'd like to jump in and make a comment here... I have coreutils (5.97) built on nine different platforms, but haven't even attempted to tackle procps as it is not auto*-based (and so far I have not been motivated to track down how to set up the build

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-25 Thread mwoehlke
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:03, mwoehlke wrote: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=15043 Is this going to get fixed, or what? There is a trivial fix available, it just needs someone that knows how to make it 'Linux-only'. #if __linux__ foo #endif

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Meyering
mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:03, mwoehlke wrote: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=15043 Is this going to get fixed, or what? There is a trivial fix available, it just needs someone that knows how to make it

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 8/25/2006 11:18 AM: As usual, it requires an addition to the test suite. That is a little tricky, since the test will have to be skipped on a file system without d_type support. Why? The test is still valid on a

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Jim Meyering on 8/25/2006 11:18 AM: As usual, it requires an addition to the test suite. That is a little tricky, since the test will have to be skipped on a file system without d_type support. Why? The test is still valid on a system without

patch to use new 'configmake' module, plus .cvsignore changes

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Eggert
I installed this: 2006-08-25 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] * .cvsignore: Remove stamp-h1. Add coreutils-*, to ignore tarballs. * bootstrap.conf: Add configmake, verify. * lib/.cvsignore: Add configmake.h, stamp-h1. * src/.cvsignore: Remove localedir.h.

Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

2006-08-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 25 August 2006 01:39, Greg Schafer wrote: Personally, I prefer the coreutils version due to some subtle differences in behavior. More background here: that's by design ... `su -` is a login shell while `su` is not -mike pgp5G9txJPqQb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:14, mwoehlke wrote: Ok, thanks. I a: wasn't sure of a macro that would be defined on Linux (is there a list of these things anywhere? echo | gcc -E -dD - -mike pgpsAvif1veQB.pgp Description: PGP signature ___