Re: FAIL: seq.log

2007-11-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since 10.95 is exactly halfway between 10.9 and 11.0 both representations are equally valid, depending on the precision of the underlying floating point format. Thanks for reporting this. Jim worked around the problem by changing the test to specify

Re: FAIL: seq.log

2007-11-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for reporting this. Jim worked around the problem by changing the test to specify 10.94, but I think it's nicer to fix 'seq' instead to do the right thing with cases like this. While fixing this bug I noticed and fixed another one, with %% in the

Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering

2007-11-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 11/3/2007 5:01 AM: $ cat --version|head -1 cat (GNU coreutils) 6.9-375-3e3f8 $ cat --version|sed s/-/./|head -1 cat (GNU coreutils) 6.9.375-3e3f8 $ cat --version|sed s/-/./g|head -1 cat (GNU

Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering

2007-11-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Jim Meyering on 11/3/2007 5:01 AM: $ cat --version|head -1 cat (GNU coreutils) 6.9-375-3e3f8 $ cat --version|sed s/-/./|head -1 cat (GNU coreutils) 6.9.375-3e3f8 $ cat --version|sed s/-/./g|head -1 cat (GNU coreutils)

Re: new snapshot

2007-11-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 11/1/2007 5:21 PM: 3.5M http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-375-3e3f8.tar.lzma Thanks to everyone who's given feedback. I haven't had time to fully analyze these failures on cygwin, but here's the list. The bulk of

usb pen blocked after using dd

2007-11-03 Thread Emmanuel Wilhelm
Hello, I installed Niblex on a usb pen (Transcen Jetflash 16Go). It follow the howto, but it doesn't work (The Grub stage 2 was unable to load). But now, I can't access to the key and parted is unable to find the main partition. There are just 512b which are visible. On Ubuntu forum

Re: new snapshot

2007-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: Andreas Schwab wrote: Where do you think it is buggy? This is the classical effect of double rounding, and the printf formatting is doing exactly the right thing. Yes you are right. I misread my own test (again). Actually I did not misread it. I added those tests to