On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:31:43 +0200 Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Roland Mainz <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Attached (as "astksh20130913_md5sum_compat1.diff.txt") is a patch
> > which fixes an incompatibility between AST md5sum(1)&&co. and GNU
> > coreutils md5sum(1)&&co. fixes.
> >
> > There are three major differences which caused hiccups for 3rd-party 
> > scripts:
> > - GNU coreutils md5sum/sha1sum/sha224sum/sha256sum default to text mode
> > - GNU coreutils use a " *" before the file name to indicate binary
> > mode and "  " to indicate text mode... the AST hash utilities used
> > only a single blank " " instead.
> > - "-t" means "text mode" for GNU coreutils while AST used this for "total"
> >
> > * Notes:
> > - GNU and AST *sum(1) utilities now have identical output and seem to
> > be 100% compatible with each other
> > - On platforms which do not implement |O_BINARY| and |O_TEXT| the
> > change only affects the seperator ("  "/" *"(=new) vs. " "(=old)).
> > Portable applications can use [[:space:]]+ in egrep(1) to make sure
> > they can match the hashes against both the old and new versions of AST
> > *sum(1)
> > - The output *intentionally* changes only for utilities matching the
> > shell pattern "*@(md5|sha@(1|224|256|384|512))sum". This is done to
> > maintain compatibility for cksum(1) and sum(1)
> > - AST does not have a sha224sum(1) utility (yet) ... need to talk to
> > Glenn about this

> Roland and Glenn: Roland added entry points for sha1sum(1),
> sha2sum(1), sha256sum(1), sha384sum(1) and sha512sum(1) but they do
> not appear in /opt/ast/bin. Could you check why this happens, please?

do you have $INSTALLROOT/bin/nmake in your build tree?

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