bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/09/2014 04:55 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Subject: [PATCH 1/4] doc: mention which commands are optional I was thinking that the bst way to do that would be to adjust things so that the node wasn't installed if the command wasn't. But it's better to have this info generally available online

bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 09/09/2014 10:52 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:31:35PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: It's useful to many, but I agree most don't bother with it due to the awkward non intuitive default info reader _interface_ (though pinfo is a bit better in that regard). Right. I've

bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/09/2014 05:58 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: On 09/09/2014 10:52 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:31:35PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: It's useful to many, but I agree most don't bother with it due to the awkward non intuitive default info reader _interface_ (though pinfo is

bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Assaf Gordon wrote: BTW, http://gnu.org/s/; redirects to http://www.gnu.org/software/; , so http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/ls also works. But isn't it better to avoid a redirection (if possible)? I think it is better to use the canonical form. This will be

bug#18436: Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking

2014-09-09 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I normally build with --disable-dependency-tracking to speed up builds, and also build out-of-tree, and got this with the latest coreutils: $ cd /foo/bar/coreutils-8.23 $ mkdir _build $ cd _build $ ../configure --disable-dependency-tracking checking for a BSD-compatible