bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-11-13 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks, I pushed the following patch to gnulib. It should be incorporated automatically into the next version of coreutils so I'm marking the bug as done. diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 59de3e5..aae8c64 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2013-11-13 Paul Eggert +

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-11-13 Thread Jack Howarth
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:22:02AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/25/2013 07:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > I am a bit unclear on that issue. Does darwin lack the complete posix > > support required for > > freadahead.c, freadptr.c, fseterr.c and fseeko.c to be rewritten to support > > compili

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/25/2013 01:12 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > __DARWIN_ALIAS_STARTING(__MAC_10_6, __IPHONE_3_2, __DARWIN_EXTSN(getgroups)) What does this expand to, and why? Is there some way that we can get it to expand to nothing (no tokens), without changing the expansion of anything else? For example, how d

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-25 Thread Jack Howarth
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:22:02AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/25/2013 07:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > I am a bit unclear on that issue. Does darwin lack the complete posix > > support required for > > freadahead.c, freadptr.c, fseterr.c and fseeko.c to be rewritten to support > > compili

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/25/2013 07:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > I am a bit unclear on that issue. Does darwin lack the complete posix support > required for > freadahead.c, freadptr.c, fseterr.c and fseeko.c to be rewritten to support > compiling with > -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE (at least for modern darwin releases)? Or h

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-25 Thread Jack Howarth
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 01:59:20AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/24/2013 03:46 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > I tried changing the instances of _DARWIN_C_SOURCE to _POSIX_C_SOURCE in > > configure > > That won't work, for the reasons you describe. I am a bit unclear on that issue. Does darwin l

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/24/2013 03:46 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > I tried changing the instances of _DARWIN_C_SOURCE to _POSIX_C_SOURCE in > configure That won't work, for the reasons you describe. How about this idea: modify getgroups.m4 to recognize the Darwin situation and compile a substitute getgroups.c, and m

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-24 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:37:55AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/24/2013 06:09 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >I am finding on x86_64-apple-darwin12 that coreutils 8.21 exhibits four > > additional failures in gnulib-tests > > which aren't present in a build of coreutils 8.19. These are... > >

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-24 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/24/2013 06:09 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: >I am finding on x86_64-apple-darwin12 that coreutils 8.21 exhibits four > additional failures in gnulib-tests > which aren't present in a build of coreutils 8.19. These are... > test-getgroups.c:58: assertion failed Thanks, this makes it looks lik

bug#14463: coreutils-8.21 darwin regressions

2013-05-24 Thread Jack Howarth
I am finding on x86_64-apple-darwin12 that coreutils 8.21 exhibits four additional failures in gnulib-tests which aren't present in a build of coreutils 8.19. These are... FAIL: test-getcwd.sh FAIL: test-getgroups FAIL: test-getlogin FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix The respective logs shows... FA