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* doc/autoconf.texi (C and Posix Variants, System Services):
Remind user to include config.h first.
(Configuration Headers): Give another reason why config.h must be
first, and mention that only .c files need it.
Based on discussion on bugs.debian.org/158969
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <
On 01/25/2017 11:30 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> Please propose a patch to the documentation, rather than just telling me
>> that it is wrong, so that we have a concrete proposal for a wording
>> improvement that we can discus
is
a bug in the real-world package that should be fixed there. Autoconf
clearly documents that if you create config.h, it MUST be included
first, before any system headers.
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here only the single command is being executed, then it
can behave as if that single command were in the context of the parent
instead of being a true subshell, precisely for the purpose of giving
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On 09/18/2014 08:29 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 09/18/2014 08:13 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 09/18/2014 12:54 PM, Rebecca Palmer wrote:
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.23-2
Severity: minor
Control: tags -1 patch
The man page of sha512sum states that more documentation can be found at
info
){
Space before {
+line_utf8_clean[sub[0]+invalid_pos] = '\0';
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another year or two go ahead
with the change. But I'm not happy with forcing a change in bikeshed
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; and a 'git grep' of 'fileutils' within the findutils package
shows that findutils does not have any stale references to the old
coreutils mailing aliases. Likewise for a grep of the coreutils sources
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with a good formulation.
How about a one-liner:
Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus umask restrictions.
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as other recursive programs, such as chown, where -L affects
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, the command
syntax */ is counterintuitive to rest of the ls(1) behavior:
ls -avs.ls -d
Yes, comparing these two in the info pages would be a useful addition
(although I'm not sure that we should bloat the already-long --help
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of the standard, and to require
the ksh/bash behavior of suppressing word splitting after shell builtins
that take arguments which can modify the current set of
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On 11/08/2010 03:09 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
Would you like me to take a stab at writing the bug report(s) to add
support for 'local' in the next revision of the standard, and to require
the ksh/bash behavior of suppressing word splitting after shell builtins
that take
On 10/31/2010 04:42 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
Yes, I knew about this. I asked for help here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2010/03/msg00015.html
but had no luck.
Eric Blake wrote:
This is due to a known bug in the Alpha implementation of memchr:
http://sourceware.org
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LITERAL_IF): Treat = like +.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS@t...@_tr_sh and AS@t...@_tr_cpp)
(AS@t...@_literal_if): Expand tests.
* NEWS: Document the fix.
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M4-NAME literally, and thus I believe that this is a bug in
AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION. So, I am reassigning this bug to
autoconf-archive (with this email).
That is the correct course of action.
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the application needed to give it a pathname with a leading hyphen, it
could safely do it as:
foo -- -myfile
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On 05/06/2010 07:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
According to POSIX[*], basename and dirname take no options (examples
in POSIX also assume that), so that this would make BusyBox's behavior
correct.
No, you're missing one other key point of POSIX:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799
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those broken scripts, not coreutils.
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test is to determine whether basename(1)
supports leading --, as required by POSIX.
Or, more likely, perhaps they are independently obeying what POSIX says,
without reference to either coreutils or busybox.
So, I think I should reassign the bug to busybox?
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The Austin Group (the folks who write POSIX) are considering changing
POSIX to require that . support --:
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# endif /* HAVE_UTIMENSAT */
# if HAVE_FUTIMENS
- {
-result = futimens (fd, ts);
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Why the TAB? We just got rid of those in gnulib.
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Yes, this looks reasonable.
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a different locale.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
Try:
$ LC_ALL=C df -hl | grep usb
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Thanks for the report. I would like to verify these claims before
applying any patches, but agree that they are probably worth mentioning.
1. sed behaves entirely unpredictable on lines
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of the kernel have a buggy utimensat syscall that
return a bogus positive number instead of -1 on failure:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=9840199
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need some quoting adjustments, and certainly
needs a testsuite addition); does this approach sound good enough to
pursue further?
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* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_CHECK_PROG): Inform user when path
search was skipped because
', as in `Invoking Emacs'; this way,
| users can find the section easily.
Maybe the better fix would be renaming all the nodes in coreutils.texi to
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Eric Blake a écrit :
I'm the m4 maintainer, and am not using debian myself, so I don't have
direct access to the files you are mentioning
A bit surprising on bugs.debian.org ;)
That's
, and as a result, changes the behavior of the rescanning algorithm
to be less than intuitive.
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perhaps under POSIXLY_CORRECT; I'd
have to re-read the source to be sure). So I'm not sure if Jim should
spend much more effort improving the verbose output; the fact that it
is different already goes to show that hard links are a special case.
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According to Eric Blake on 7/31/2006 9:04 PM:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5898
Yes, you read that right - an open bug with only a 4-digit ID. 9 years
and 236 days old.
The idea might be nice for m4 2.0, but is not worth
to allow newline in a macro name to trigger a similar failure
in the 'make distcheck' testsuite, to ensure we don't regress again.
2006-09-04 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* src/input.c (peek_input): Fix regression in handling macro
without arguments as last token in file; debian bug
issue, I totally agree that this is not good practice
for GNU software. In the meantime, perhaps Autoconf should document that
all autom4te input files should always end in newline.
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According to Eric Blake on 7/31/2006 7:19 AM:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96075 complains:
format, divert and shift are all English words that
might occur in text. And they are all recognised without
arguments - the default
was more
than an obstack_chunk in size). So I will have to port this patch to CVS
head before m4 2.0 is released.
2006-08-01 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* src/input.c (skip_line, next_token): Remember current file in
case input file ends abruptly. Addresses debian bug 175365
applying this patch to 1.4.6;
otherwise, you will have to wait for m4 2.0. Plus I would need to
document the change in the .texinfo and NEWS.
2006-07-31 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* src/builtin.c (m4_errprint, m4_m4wrap, m4_shift): Make blind,
per debian bug 96075.
* doc/m4
render horribly depending on your local), while TeX
ignores 8-bit characters and needs a command for a glyph. So for now, I
left the examples in an @ignore block, so at least the testsuite will
ensure we don't regress.
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* src/input.c (peek_input
should remain active.
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that will
make it in 1.4.6 that does just that:
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* src/path.c (path_search): Add result parameter, so that
-I can be accounted for. Debian bug 53685.
* src/m4.h (path_search): Update prototype.
* src/m4.c (main): Adjust callers
, and always do stat on those
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That last sentence needs help. I would s/Because we/We/.
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