bug#12899: Build failure from latest master

2012-11-16 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/16/2012 02:44 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Paul, thanks for the quick feedback. On 11/15/2012 10:03 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Thanks, wouldn't the following be a bit cleaner, since MAINTAINERCLEANFILES contains BUILT_SOURCES? Possibly yes, but since this

bug#12903: cut -b 0- is supposed to be invalid

2012-11-16 Thread Marcel Böhme
Hi, The command echo 12345 | cut -b 0- prints an empty line while it should fail with fields and positions are numbered from 1 according to this specification cut: diagnose a range starting with 0 (-f 0-2) as invalid. Can you confirm this is an incomplete bugfix made on

bug#12907: Possible Bug in sort core utility

2012-11-16 Thread Coffey, Terrence (Terrence) **CTR**
Hi, I think I might have located a bug. I'm using Redhat 6.3. I'm try to get a listing of dot file sorted by date and all other files sorted by date. I'd like all the dot file to appears before all other files. Initially I was testing on 6.2 and noticed that the .(dot) files were not passed to

bug#12907: Possible Bug in sort core utility

2012-11-16 Thread Paul Eggert
Most likely it's a locale problem. Try sort --debug and try setting LC_ALL='C' in your environment.

bug#12907: Possible Bug in sort core utility

2012-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12907 + moreinfo thanks Coffey, Terrence (Terrence) **CTR** wrote: I think I might have located a bug. I'm using Redhat 6.3. What locale are you using? You can print out your locale settings with the locale command. $ locale Very often the locale is set to a human locale where case is

bug#12794: Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr

2012-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: You're 40 years too late on this one. This kind of condescending attitudes do not improve matters. Please no ad-hominem attacks. Thanks. What is an ad-hominem attack? Isn't that an attack against the person? Clearly, the poster was talking

bug#12903: cut -b 0- is supposed to be invalid

2012-11-16 Thread Bernhard Voelker
Hi Marcel, On 11/16/2012 07:35 AM, Marcel Böhme wrote: Hi, The command echo 12345 | cut -b 0- prints an empty line while it should fail with fields and positions are numbered from 1 according to this specification cut: diagnose a range starting with 0 (-f 0-2) as invalid.

bug#12907: Possible Bug in sort core utility

2012-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
tag 12907 notabug thanks On 11/16/2012 11:06 AM, Coffey, Terrence (Terrence) **CTR** wrote: Hi, I think I might have located a bug. I'm using Redhat 6.3. Thanks for the report. However, I suspect that you are hitting this FAQ, and not a bug in sort itself:

bug#12903: cut -b 0- is supposed to be invalid

2012-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Bernhard Voelker wrote: Hi Marcel, On 11/16/2012 07:35 AM, Marcel Böhme wrote: Hi, The command echo 12345 | cut -b 0- prints an empty line while it should fail with fields and positions are numbered from 1 according to this specification cut: diagnose a range starting with 0