bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2011-04-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Closing. This was resolved. see http://debbugs.gnu.org/6281

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-30 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, On Friday 28 May 2010, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi, Chris Clayton wrote: but make check hangs when gnulib-tests/test-lock is run. The log showed that the hang occurred somewhere after the message Starting test_rwlock was output ... The only thing I can think of is

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-30 Thread Jim Meyering
Chris Clayton wrote: ... I built and installed glibc-2.11.1, this time against 2.6.33.4 kernel headers instead of the 2.6.26.x headers that were previously in /usr/src/linux. My idea was to just test the failing coreutils test application (test-lock), although, of course, a failure with this

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Chris Clayton wrote: Hi Jim, I've done some more testing and the outcome is reported below. ... [I've reformatted this paragraph for you -- wrapping to 100 columns makes it render in a relatively hard-to-read manner on my 80-col window] If I add --enable-threads=pth to the call to configure,

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-28 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi Jim, I've done some more testing and the outcome is reported below. On Thursday 27 May 2010, Chris Clayton wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Chris Clayton wrote: I've just tried to build coreutils-8.5. The compilation finished OK, but make check hangs when

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-28 Thread Chris Clayton
On Friday 28 May 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Chris Clayton wrote: Hi Jim, I've done some more testing and the outcome is reported below. ... [I've reformatted this paragraph for you -- wrapping to 100 columns makes it render in a relatively hard-to-read manner on my 80-col window]

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Chris Clayton wrote: but make check hangs when gnulib-tests/test-lock is run. The log showed that the hang occurred somewhere after the message Starting test_rwlock was output ... The only thing I can think of is that glibc is a bit old at 2.7, Using glibc-2.7 with a new

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-27 Thread Chris Clayton
Resend because the first try somehow ended up at the Debbugs-submit mailing list! Fingers crossed. -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Clayton chris2...@googlemail.com Date: 27 May 2010 09:19 Subject: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version To: bug-coreutils

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Chris Clayton wrote: I've just tried to build coreutils-8.5. The compilation finished OK, but make check hangs when gnulib-tests/test-lock is run. The log showed that the hang occurred somewhere after the message Starting test_rwlock was output, so I've added some additional debugging output

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-27 Thread Chris Clayton
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Chris Clayton wrote: I've just tried to build coreutils-8.5. The compilation finished OK, but make check hangs when gnulib-tests/test-lock is run. The log showed that the hang occurred somewhere after the message Starting test_rwlock was

bug#6281: Fwd: Possible bug in coreutils-8.5 or associated gnulib version

2010-05-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Chris Clayton wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Chris Clayton wrote: I've just tried to build coreutils-8.5. The compilation finished OK, but make check hangs when gnulib-tests/test-lock is run. The log showed that the hang occurred somewhere after the message

Re: possible bug in coreutils?

2006-03-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
Bob Proulx wrote: Scott Griffith wrote: I was just looking at the man page for grep, and wouldn't you know it.. --line-buffer is not very well documented. Infact, all it says about that is: (excerpt from man page) --line-buffering Use line buffering, it can be a performance

Re: possible bug in coreutils?

2006-03-27 Thread Scott Griffith
Bob, Thank you very much for your response. I was just looking at the man page for grep, and wouldn't you know it.. --line-buffer is not very well documented. Infact, all it says about that is: (excerpt from man page) --line-buffering Use line buffering, it can be a

Re: possible bug in coreutils?

2006-03-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Scott Griffith wrote: I was just looking at the man page for grep, and wouldn't you know it.. --line-buffer is not very well documented. Infact, all it says about that is: (excerpt from man page) --line-buffering Use line buffering, it can be a performance penality. And

Re: possible bug in coreutils?

2006-03-22 Thread Bob Proulx
You sent your message to bug-textutils which may indicate that you have a very old version. The current programs are in the coreutils package and would have directed you to the bug-coreutils mailing list. The current stable version is 5.94. But that won't change anything for the purposes of