Re: next release version of findutils?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 08/08/2018 09:49 AM, Karl Nordström wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to ask whether there is a new release for findutils comming up?
> 
> I want to add it to conda-forge and am having trouble passing make 
> check. Partly perhaps due to inexperience, but I think some of the tests 
> have been updated since 4.6.0. I think one such example is mbrtowc:
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=1f63650823cebf52044df840c81062ccb52163a2
> 
> The build system is very bare-bones and I'm also having problems with 
> strftime and the 'ahistorical' tests. Here I haven't delved as deep.
> 
> Currently I lean towards skipping the tests. Would you be terribly 
> opposed to that?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Karl

Hi Karl,

indeed, a new cut of the GNU findutils is overdue: we have already 187 commits
since v4.6.0 which was released around Xmas 2015.
I have a few things open on my side, but then need to find some time to do
the release together with James.

Re. the tests: in that situation, I'd try to skip the gnulib tests,
and only let the find/xargs tests run.  Or you can try with a new snapshot
tarball created with './bootstrap && ./configure && make all dist' from a
git clone.

Have a nice day,
Berny