Re: building old coreutils versions on new glibc systemsy

2019-08-10 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 8/3/19 4:30 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Attached a patch to add these (+ README + build script) > to a new 'contrib' directory. > > NOTE: > I had to disable the 'commit-msg' hook (for the 'contrib' prefix) > and the 'precommit' hook (because the patch files contains spaces at > end of lines, and

Re: building old coreutils versions on new glibc systemsy

2019-08-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 12:05:53AM -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:48 PM Assaf Gordon wrote: > > The attached patches enable building old tarballs on modern systems > > (tested on Debian 10 with GLIBC 2.28-10, gcc 8.3.0-6). > > > > Nice work. I've had to go through