bug#11854: make syntax-check -j issue

2012-07-04 Thread Bernhard Voelker
After pulling to the lastest revision (v8.17-37-g74427c7) and a successful build (make -j), a subsequent make syntax-check -j failed: ... 8.47 vulnerable_makefile_CVE-2009-4029 8.78 copyright_check CC hostname.o CCLD arch CCLD arch CC hostname.o CC

bug#11843: acknowledged by developer (date -s with locale-dependent input: notabug)

2012-07-04 Thread Jim Meyering
peter evans wrote: Thank you for closing this as not a bug. So it is not a bug that date is unable to parse its own output in arbitrary locales. Indeed, it would not be a bug if it stopped and complained about it. That would be perfectly acceptable. date however, goes one better than

bug#11843: acknowledged by developer (date -s with locale-dependent input: notabug)

2012-07-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: +static inline unsigned char to_uchar (char ch) { return ch; } For the use of 'inline', one needs this too: --- m4/parse-datetime.m4.orig Wed Jul 4 10:04:43 2012 +++ m4/parse-datetime.m4Wed Jul 4 10:04:36 2012 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# parse-datetime.m4 serial 19 +#

bug#11843: acknowledged by developer (date -s with locale-dependent input: notabug)

2012-07-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: +static inline unsigned char to_uchar (char ch) { return ch; } For the use of 'inline', one needs this too: +++ m4/parse-datetime.m4 Wed Jul 4 10:04:36 2012 + AC_REQUIRE([AC_C_INLINE]) Thanks, Bruno. Here's the complete patch on the gnulib

bug#11843: acknowledged by developer (date -s with locale-dependent input: notabug)

2012-07-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Bruno Haible wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: +static inline unsigned char to_uchar (char ch) { return ch; } For the use of 'inline', one needs this too: +++ m4/parse-datetime.m4 Wed Jul 4 10:04:36 2012 + AC_REQUIRE([AC_C_INLINE]) Thanks, Bruno. Here's the complete

bug#11858: df -m undocumented, why no df -g

2012-07-04 Thread Andreas Jaeger
df -k and df -m both work but only df -k is mentioned as part of df -- help. So, the omission to document -m is IMO a bug. A second issue: Since df supports -k and -m, shouldn't if support -g (as synoym for -- block-size=1M as well? Btw. df --version outputs: df (GNU coreutils) 8.16 Andreas --

bug#11859: Reporting Bug (Enhancement) : Interactive Command for Copying Files (cp -i)

2012-07-04 Thread Sitam Jana
Hi GNU-Team, While going through the command for “Copying File” in Unix and executing the same, I found one good enhancement for the command : $ cp -i file-name target-folder or target-path. Bug Report :- Type : Enhancement Description : Final status needs to be displayed for the specified

bug#11858: df -m undocumented, why no df -g

2012-07-04 Thread Paul Eggert
On 07/04/2012 01:11 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: df -k and df -m both work but only df -k is mentioned as part of df -- help. So, the omission to document -m is IMO a bug. I think the general idea is that -k was a mistake, but it's standardized, and that we don't want to have options -m, -g, -t,

bug#11859: Reporting Bug (Enhancement) : Interactive Command for Copying Files (cp -i)

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Blake
tag 11859 notabug thanks On 07/04/2012 02:16 AM, Sitam Jana wrote: Actual result : Final status for the copy not displayed. Expected result : As the command is an interactive command, it should display a final status message in the terminal to the user whether the file is actually