bug#8604: Linux mime help needed

2011-05-02 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Hi Syed, this is most likely not a bug in the GNU coreutils. I bet you copied mmencode from your UNIX workstation to your Linux PC ... which has a different platform (maybe an Intel CPU?): $ file mmencode mmencode: PA-RISC2.0 shared executable dynamically linked - not stripped Have a nice

bug#8604: Linux mime help needed

2011-05-02 Thread Eric Blake
tag 8604 notabug close 8604 thanks On 05/02/2011 08:28 AM, Syed Nizamuddin wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report. However, you've reached the GNU Coreutils mailing list, and not a generic support list for Linux questions, so I'm afraid we won't have the best answers for you here. We are

bug#8606: coreutils: du

2011-05-02 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Dear coreutils team, I have coreutils 8.11 installed on my system via Arch Linux packages and have experienced some unexpected behaviour of the du utility. When I execute du -hs . .git in a folder that contains some files and a subfolder named .git the output I get is 194M. The output I

bug#8604: Linux mime help needed

2011-05-02 Thread Alan Curry
Eric Blake writes: $ file mmencode mmencode: PA-RISC2.0 shared executable dynamically linked - not stripped If you want to run a binary on a different platform, you have to recompile it from source for that platform. Do you have the source for mmencode? If not, then I don't see how you

bug#8606: Works in 8.5 but broken from 8.10 onwards

2011-05-02 Thread Debarshi Ray
I have got the latest Git master in /tmp and 8.5 from Fedora 14 installed system-wide. [rishi@freebook coreutils]$ /tmp/bin/du -hs .git . 32M .git 9.5M. [rishi@freebook coreutils]$ /tmp/bin/du -hs . .git 41M . [rishi@freebook coreutils]$ /tmp/bin/du -hs . 41M

bug#8606: Works in 8.5 but broken from 8.10 onwards

2011-05-02 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/02/11 18:51, Debarshi Ray wrote: If this is indeed a bug, then I can try to cook a patch. No, it's expected. In the NEWS file, it's the first bug fix listed under coreutils 8.6.