Re: [PATCH] build: kill(1), uptime(1): don't install by default

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/11/2025 23:33, Collin Funk wrote:

Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes:

* build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh: kill and uptime are not installed
by arch, debian, fedora, suse at least, so add to disabled list.
Fixes https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/132
---
  build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh 
b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
index 454eba0aa..1892b1aeb 100755
--- a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
+++ b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ disabled_by_default_progs='
      arch
      coreutils
      hostname
+    kill
+    uptime
  '

# Programs that can be built only when certain requisite system

@@ -76,7 +78,6 @@ normal_progs='
      head
      id
      join
-    kill
      link
      ln
      logname
@@ -131,7 +132,6 @@ normal_progs='
      unexpand
      uniq
      unlink
-    uptime
      vdir
      wc
      whoami

Should we have a NEWS entry? Just so we don't surprise any distributions
who may have used them.

Something like this:

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ed33d27aa..efe51d702 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-

csplit, ls, and sort, now handle a more complete set of terminating signals. +** Build-related

+
+  kill and uptime are no longer built by default.
+  These programs can be built with the --enable-install-program=kill,uptime
+  configure option.

Oops, of course.
I pushed with that update.

cheers,
Padraig