bug#34876: [bug-coreutils] ln 8.31 on Solaris 10 is partially broken

2019-03-15 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
to have /bin in front, the ln command succeeded. ----------- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department

bug#22624: [bug-coreutils] coreutils-8.25: big success, but problem on GNU/Hurd

2016-02-11 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
d_offset=9223372036854775807 pagesize=4096 file=/dev/null CHR st_size=0 st_blksize=1048576 st_blocks=0 cur_offset=0 end_offset=0 pagesize=4096 real0m0.010s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s --- - Nelson H. F. Beebe

bug#22624: [bug-coreutils] coreutils-8.25: big success, but problem on GNU/Hurd

2016-02-10 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
IDE virtual disk system, which may have been less well tested than SATA. ----------- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581 4148

bug#21153: coreutils-8.24 build problem, and a fix, on Solaris 10 SPARC

2015-07-28 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
to a successful build and subsequent validation. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department

bug#12815: [bug-coreutils] build glitches in coreutils-8.20

2012-11-06 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
-sparc osuse-x64 sol10-sparc ubuntu-x86 There is overlap between those two lists because builds were done with different compilers and compilation options on most systems. --- - Nelson H. F. Beebe

bug#7999: [coreutils-8.x] documentation of touch command needs clarification

2011-02-07 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
:27:09.934987800 -0700 Similar behavior is found with coreutils-8.9 on NetBSD IA-32 and Sun Solaris SPARC. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah

bug#6235: hostname and -b option

2010-05-20 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
by Ubuntu.] --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCBInternet e

bug#6020: coreutils-8.x: a simple feature enhancement, and how to do it

2010-04-30 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
(and we reached the first release of the gcc-4.6 family on 16-Apr-2010). Indeed, -lgmp has been tested for back to at least coreutils-7.0. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254

bug#6020: coreutils-8.x: a simple feature enhancement, and how to do it

2010-04-30 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
, but the negative one should precede the positive one in sort (on the grounds that negative zero really means tiny negative that was too small to represent). So, indeed, a string-based comparison is not trivial. --- - Nelson H

bug#6020: coreutils-8.x: a simple feature enhancement, and how to do it

2010-04-23 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
on PowerPC, IBM AIX on PowerPC, and SGI IRIX MIPS. I suggest a configure-time check for strtold(), and if that works, then use long double in sort.c. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254

Re: [coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

2008-10-14 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
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[coreutils] Re: expr option interpretation changes

2008-10-14 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
the new coreutils version of expr, using a leading zero addition, like this, expr 0 + $m + $n to hide the possibility of $m being negative. This subterfuge works on all systems. --- - Nelson H. F. Beebe

[coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

2008-10-13 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
$' --- RCSHEADER='$Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 2008/10/13 20:48:49 $' --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581 4148

coreutils-6.1: build problem reports

2006-09-07 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
... many more ... --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB

coreutils-5.90: problem with mkdir -p

2005-10-15 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
% mkdir ~/.mozilla/frobnitz # works without -p In these tests, the filesystem in question is automounted from a Sun Solaris 8 fileserver to a Sun Solaris 9 client. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel

coreutils-5.2.1, touch, and 64-bit time-of-day clocks

2004-04-02 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
; that is exactly 2^(63) - 1. It appears that ls stops reporting years somewhere after 0xf (= 2^(52) - 1), and switches to seconds. One can debate whether that is a feature or a bug. --- - Nelson H. F. Beebe

coreutils-5.1.2: patch for stat command: one small point

2004-02-02 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
--- 204 eilat::coreutils-5.1.2.p1 Spurious empty trailing lines are atypical of GNU and Unix software, so perhaps the empty line should be eliminated. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581

Re: coreutils-5.1.2: patch for stat command, and a comment on the date command

2004-02-02 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
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coreutils-5.1.2 and the stat command

2004-01-31 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
suspect that the omission of the nanoseconds values in the timestamps reported by GNU stat is simply an oversight that can be easily rectified, and should be. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254

coreutils-5.1.1 with patch for paste.c build feedback report

2004-01-23 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
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coreutils-5.1.1: test failure on FreeBSD 4.4

2004-01-21 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
tests failed Please report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] == --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581

coreutils-5.1.1 test failure on Apple MacOS X

2004-01-21 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
FAIL: help-version == 1 of 1 tests failed Please report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] == --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254

coreutils-5.1.1 test failures on HP/Compaq/DEC OSF/1 5.1

2004-01-21 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
== 1 of 1 tests failed Please report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] == --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254

coreutils-5.1.1 test failures on Compaq/DEC OSF/1 4.0

2004-01-21 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Configure environment: CC=gcc CXX=g++ LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of UtahFAX: +1 801 581 4148

More coreutils-5.1.1 test failures on HP/Compaq/DEC OSF/1 5.1

2004-01-21 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
-version == 1 of 1 tests failed Please report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] == --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254

coreutils-5.1.1 test loops on GNU/Linux on PowerPC

2004-01-21 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
N 13.4 0.3 104:27 paste I killed that process, and the test is proceeding; more when it completes. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah

coreutils-4.5.6; build warnings on SGI IRIX 6.5

2003-02-06 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
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