"make distcheck" was failing due to two separate problems.
Here's the fix.
>From d98b1b35a6dad1f2964e530834cc22931f4f75cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:50:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] build: correct coreutils-specific distcheck rules
* dist-check.mk (built_pr
Hi guys,
Below is the source code portion of the patch. It's ended up a lot bigger
than what I thought it would be; split.c has almost doubled in size. Feedback
is welcome, especially suggestions wrt parsing or --help output.
I've also taken a couple liberties with the -t option... When -
touch -m no longer seems to modify the file modification date. Archlinux,
coreutils-8.2 (package coreutils-8.2-1-i686). Works if use coreutils-7.6.
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According to ctrn3e8 on 12/19/2009 10:07 PM:
>touch -m no longer seems to modify the file modification date. Archlinux,
>coreutils-8.2 (package coreutils-8.2-1-i686). Works if use coreutils-7.6.
What kernel version on which architecture (una
Chen Guo writes:
> +/* Parse eol character for -t option.
> + TODO: support octal and hex escape sequences? */
The TODO looks obsolete, since you are indeed supporting them.
> + case '?':
> +eol = '\?';
> +break;
I don't think this should be supported, it is only part of
Hi,
Jim Meyering writes:
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> Regarding ‘chgrp/basic’, the test finds groups='3 65534'. However,
>> 65534 corresponds to ‘nogroup’. (The build process runs under a special
>> user, typically:
>>
>> $ id nixbld1
>> uid=30001(nixbld1) gid=65534(nogroup) gro
