Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] tests: fix a printf portability issue

2010-09-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: not all printf commands support \xhh diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys b/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys index 57a52a6..4e8beff 100755 --- a/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys +++ b/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ printf 2.,,3\n2.4\n | sort -s -k1n --debug

Re: [coreutils] testsuite failures on Fedora

2010-09-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 17/09/10 11:06, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 17/09/10 10:34, Jim Meyering wrote: FAIL: misc/stat-mount (exit: 1) === ... + stat_mnt=/shared/home + test /shared = /shared/home + fail=1 ... Here, the failure is that I have /home bind-mounted

Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] tests: fix a printf portability issue

2010-09-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 19/09/10 07:50, Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: not all printf commands support \xhh diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys b/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys index 57a52a6..4e8beff 100755 --- a/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys +++ b/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ printf

[coreutils] Re: [PATCH] join: support multi-byte character encodings

2010-09-19 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Pádraig, This is my start at applying robust and efficient multi-byte processing to coreutils. Actually, it is the continuation of the discussion and based on the patch from March 2009 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00102.html. What has changed since then? Ad