DJ Lucas wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> Randy McMurchy wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Noted in DJ's book (I'll continue to refer to it as that >>> even though his book is what will be SVN, he's the one >>> that got all this stuff going) that we've dropped the >>> i18n patch for Coreutils. IIRC, upstream won't touch it, >>> and I think I remember there may have been a discussion >>> about it here, but I want to revisit it to ensure that >>> we're all good dropping it and/or keeping it. >>> >>> Alexander may have some good info here, as others may >>> also, but I want to ensure the community is agreed as to >>> the direction we take. >>> >>> I'm not an i18n person, so I really cannot contribute >>> anything worthwhile other than bringing it up here. >>> >>> I'm going to update Coreutils to 6.12 without the patch >>> and we can always add it if we determine it should be >>> there. I simply don't know if it should or should not be. >>> >>> >>> >> That patch has been buggy in the past. The current upstream version of >> it does not apply to raw Coreutils-6.12, and it has been rejected by >> upstream in the past. While I can certainly munge that patch into >> applying, I do not have any reliable way to test the changes other than >> witnessing no change. >> >> > Must have been more than 2 months and 2 weeks since I tested it. The > current patch applies (with fuzz and offset). It does not build in the > host system (BLFS-6.3) however. The testsuite fails to run to completion, first because nobody doesn't have write permissions to config.log, then misc/cut test fails. Needs investigation. Added config.log to chown command, and added -k to non root checks. For right now, it is just known to fail. I'll see if I can dig up some info on it.
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