bug#7759: split(1) regression in v8.7-25-gbe10739

2010-12-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 30/12/10 11:15, Jim Meyering wrote: Hi Pádraig Thanks for the quick fix. Please include the bugzilla URL and credit Sergey and Dmitry in the commit log. It'd be good to list Sergey's name/email in THANKS, too. Done and pushed. thanks, Pádraig.

[coreutils] [PATCH] maint: allow gettext 0.17 again

2010-12-30 Thread Eric Blake
Commit 041c9c47 traded the 'gettext' module for the lighter 'gettext-h' module, so as to not require the latest gettext release (we only need the latest release if we ship gettext as a dependent library, but coreutils has long preferred to use it as an external library). But that commit overlooked

[coreutils] testsuite worthless on cygwin

2010-12-30 Thread Eric Blake
Unfortunately, 'make check' is failing almost all of the tests on cygwin. Why? Because init.sh uses find_exe_basenames_ to see whether all .exe files are safe to install a shim function around, but [.exe fails the test. Meanwhile, create_exe_shims_ returns 1 rather than 0 (or 77) when skipping

Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] maint: allow gettext 0.17 again

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: Commit 041c9c47 traded the 'gettext' module for the lighter 'gettext-h' module, so as to not require the latest gettext release (we only need the latest release if we ship gettext as a dependent library, but coreutils has long preferred to use it as an external library). But

[coreutils] Re: [PATCH] tests: avoid failing coreutils tests on cygwin

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/30/2010 01:24 PM, Eric Blake wrote: If you like it, I'll push to gnulib first and then synchronize coreutils to the latest. Either order is fine, thanks, but we should try to keep them in sync.

bug#7759: split(1) regression in v8.7-25-gbe10739

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 29/12/10 21:12, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: Hi, I've got a bug report from Sergey Vlasov about split(1) regression in coreutils v8.8: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/24841 In short, the default suffix length is not 2 as it shall be according to POSIX. Looks like the