Re: [PATCH] Fix check-AUTHORS skip logic.

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): When this test is skipped, be > sure to avoid all commands in the recipe, not just those passed > to the first shell. > --- > > Hello, > > without this patch, I'm getting the following 'make check' failure: > > check-AUTHORS: skipping th

Re: [PATCH] build: use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at) variables

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Jim Meyering writes: >> --- a/src/Makefile.am >> +++ b/src/Makefile.am >> @@ -290,26 +290,29 @@ editpl = sed -e 's,@''PERL''@,$(PERL),g' >> >> BUILT_SOURCES += dircolors.h >> dircolors.h: dcgen dircolors.hin >> -@rm -f $@ $...@-t >> -$(PERL) -w -- $(s

Re: 7.2 on Solaris 10 with Zones

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Peter O'Gorman wrote: ... > I'm not sure that there is a "good" answer to this. Thanks for investigating. I'm happy to leave things as they are. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

[PATCH] Fix check-AUTHORS skip logic.

2009-04-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): When this test is skipped, be sure to avoid all commands in the recipe, not just those passed to the first shell. --- Hello, without this patch, I'm getting the following 'make check' failure: check-AUTHORS: skipping this check diff: authors-actual: No such

Re: [PATCH] build: use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at) variables

2009-04-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, Jim Meyering writes: > --- a/src/Makefile.am > +++ b/src/Makefile.am > @@ -290,26 +290,29 @@ editpl = sed -e 's,@''PERL''@,$(PERL),g' > > BUILT_SOURCES += dircolors.h > dircolors.h: dcgen dircolors.hin > - @rm -f $@ $...@-t > - $(PERL) -w -- $(srcdir)/dcgen $(srcdir)/dircolors.h

Re: maint.mk questions

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 4/24/2009 3:22 PM: >>> Yes, it sounds like that would be worthwhile -- at least to you. >> How about this patch? >> >> From: Eric Blake >> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:58:02 -0600 >> Subject: [PATCH] vc-list-files: ignore git

Re: Human readable sort

2009-04-24 Thread Pádraig Brady
Michael Speer wrote: > I wrote the following patch to the 7.2 branch of coreutils to allow > `sort` to sort by human readable byte sizes. I looked around a bit to > see what the status of previous attempts to integrate this > functionality were, but didn't see any very recent activity. This is >

Re: 7.2 on Solaris 10 with Zones

2009-04-24 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:23:06PM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Filesystems mounted in other zones do appear to have a "zone=" > mount option, but I can not find documentation on this either. That > being said, getting the current zone name and checking > hasmntopt("zone=") and ! hasmntopt("zon

Re: 7.2 on Solaris 10 with Zones

2009-04-24 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:09:51PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Albert Chin wrote: > > Just built 7.2 on Solaris 10/SPARC and src/df doesn't seem to like > > zones: > > $ src/df > > ... > > src/df: `/var/zones/poog/root/.SUNWnative/lib': Permission denied > > src/df: `/var/zones/poog/root/.SUNWna

[PATCH] tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
It was not easy to reproduce this one. >From b726914a4c1ea8f943359d9ad19a09d3ee606694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:34:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test * tests/misc/sort: Remove one of the generated tests. 363

Human readable sort

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Speer
I wrote the following patch to the 7.2 branch of coreutils to allow `sort` to sort by human readable byte sizes. I looked around a bit to see what the status of previous attempts to integrate this functionality were, but didn't see any very recent activity. This is my first interaction with coreu

RE: join utility segfults

2009-04-24 Thread Vartika Agarwal
Thanks Roman! BTW, I am a "she" :) I see the RHEL5 bugzilla# in the email chain. Is there one for RHEL4 as well? I doubt this will be fixed in RHEL4 though but I'll open a Yahoo ticket with RH to make sure we are aware of which RHEL5 release the fix gets targeted to. I'll update the internal ti

Re: join utility segfults

2009-04-24 Thread Roman Kirillov
Chaps, Adding Vartika from our Linux support team to the chain – he's got some questions to ask. In the meanwhile, he's a contact person at Y! regarding this. R -- Roman Kirillov Yahoo! GeoInformatics Group Y!Im: roman.kirillov | kiril...@yahoo-inc.com | +44(0)2071311384 On 24 Apr 2009,

Re: feature request: list statistical properties for the list of files passed

2009-04-24 Thread George Marselis
James Youngman wrote: It's not such a great idea to do that. Far better to chop that up into at least 1000 subdirectories. But take care not to use more than about 32,000 subdirectories, as some Linux filesystems either don't allow it (ext3) or some operations become less efficient at that poi

Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier

2009-04-24 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier, Jim...: Considering all of the programs from /usr/xpg4/bin mentioned in that output, I suspect you have an unusual PATH. What is your PATH? /local/bin:/local/sbin:/local/krb5/bin:/local/krb5/sbin:/usr/j2se/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/

Re: use maintainer-makefile

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > You can also run: > > git submodule foreach git pull origin master > > to avoid the subshell. Personally, I did: > > git config --global alias.syncsub \ > 'submodule foreach git pull origin master' > > so that I can just do 'git syncsub' to get the same effect. Much nicer.

Re: [PATCH] mv: do not produce diagnostics for xattr/selinux preserving failures

2009-04-24 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Ondřej Vašík wrote: > Ondřej Vašík wrote: > It reminds me another issue - due to reduce_diagnostic, if you use cp -a > --preserve=xattr,context , failure diagnostic is reduced, but the > command itself fails. Additionally for cp and --require-preserve=context > and ENODATA/ENOTSUP errors on destin

[PATCH] build: use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at) variables

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
With the change below, the default build output for generated files in src/ is slightly more succinct: $ cd src && make GEN wheel.h GEN wheel-size.h GEN version.h GEN version.c GEN fs.h make all-am make[1]: Entering directory `/h/meyering/w/co/coreutils/src' CC versi

Re: [PATCH] mv: do not produce diagnostics for xattr/selinux preserving failures

2009-04-24 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Hello, Ondřej Vašík wrote: > Jim Meyering píše v Pá 17. 04. 2009 v 13:54 +0200: > > Ondřej Vašík wrote: > > > as reported in rhbz #496142 by Eric Sandeen, mv produces a lot of > > > unwanted messages when moving files to filesystem without xattr support. > > > I guess mv selinux/xattr diagnostic

Re: use maintainer-makefile

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 4/23/2009 11:45 PM: > To update the submodule to latest, I did this: > > ( cd gnulib && git pull ) > > then ran "git commit --amend -a" to add that change to your change set. You can also run: git submodule foreach

Re: join utility segfults

2009-04-24 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Ondřej Vašík wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: > > Roman Kirillov wrote: > > > [kiril...@chiark py-src]$ join s1.txt s2.txt > > > Segmentation fault > > > files: http://sigizmund.info/upload/s12.tgz (28 mb) > > > > This issue seems related to the i18n patch applied by your distro > Just would like to

Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Erik Auerswald wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:26:45AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Tim Mooney wrote: >> >> > ./configure --prefix=/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/local/gnu --build >> > x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --sysconfdir=/etc/local/gnu >> > --libdir=/local/gnu/lib/64 --mandir=/local/gnu/share/man

Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier

2009-04-24 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hello Jim, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:26:45AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Tim Mooney wrote: > > > ./configure --prefix=/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/local/gnu --build > > x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --sysconfdir=/etc/local/gnu > > --libdir=/local/gnu/lib/64 --mandir=/local/gnu/share/man > > --infodir=