AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: Please run this command from your build directory cd src { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b } and tell us what it prints. somehow, my shell (/bin/ksh) doesn't like the { ... } syntax here: $ cd src { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: sudo env PATH=$PATH NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -C tests \ TESTS=cp/preserve-gid VERBOSE=yes I think you meant sudo env PATH=$PATH NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -C tests check \ TESTS=cp/preserve-gid VERBOSE=yes BTW: I'm not sure but shouldn't the tests make

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Please run this command from your build directory cd src { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b } and tell us what it prints. somehow, my shell (/bin/ksh) doesn't like the { ... } syntax here: $ cd src { touch a b;

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: somehow, my shell (/bin/ksh) doesn't like the { ... } syntax here: $ cd src { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b } it waits for the command to be continued ... I can't see why That's not quite valid (POSIX) sh, which requires

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Please run this command from your build directory cd src { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b } and tell us what it prints. somehow, my shell (/bin/ksh) doesn't like the { ... } syntax here: $ cd src { touch a b;

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: Long-term, best for you would be to install GNU diffutils. done: === GNU coreutils 7.4.127-d2510: tests/test-suite.log === 1 of 1 test failed. .. contents::

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Please run this command from your build directory cd src { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b } and tell us what it prints. somehow, my shell (/bin/ksh) doesn't like the { ... } syntax here: $ cd src { touch a b;

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: The *second* time that command is run, it appears to print nothing. Do this in src/: ./touch a b; mode3=2755 ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b Bingo! If the second invocation of ginstall doesn't print anything, that indicates a

bug in date command

2009-08-19 Thread Prog piR
date +%^B gives the month in capital letters but in french august is août, and the accentued letter is not capitalized date +%^B gives AOûT instead of AOÛT In addition, is there any option to have lowercase ? Thanks

Multi-character field separators in sort

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Muratet
Greetings I'm sure this question has come up, but I cannot find the answer in the archives. I have a make file generated by a third-party python script with the following line that I am trying to run in bash on CentOS 5.2: set -o pipefail; cat s_1_1_export.txt | \ awk -F$'\t'

Re: bug in date command

2009-08-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
Prog piR wrote: date +%^B gives the month in capital letters but in french august is août, and the accentued letter is not capitalized date +%^B gives AOûT instead of AOÛT Nor does tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' support multibyte chars either, I'll add that to the list of multibyte stuff I

Multi-character tab problem in sort

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Muratet
Greetings I found a definition in the make file: # The quote marks below contain a tab character SORT_BY_TAB:=sort -T . --field-separator= which means it's back to a tab problem which I think I can sort out from the archives. Thanks Mike

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: The *second* time that command is run, it appears to print nothing. Do this in src/: ./touch a b; mode3=2755 ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b Bingo! If the second invocation of ginstall doesn't print

[PATCH] tests: make install-C slightly less prone to confusion

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, a tiny test tweak: From a70ac4ef3236afdd1e23e30c1094a2c3557d7c70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:10:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: make install-C slightly less prone to confusion * tests/install/install-C: Invoke framework_failure,

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.132-a70ac; 7.5 due out tomorrow

2009-08-19 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 22:28 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Have any of you found anything worth addressing for 7.5? Otherwise, I'll make the release tomorrow. make check and check-root passed. Ubuntu 9.10. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part