Re: coreutils-6.4 released (stable)

[Eric Blake]

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I didn't see this show up on bug-gnulib, nor in the list queue, so I took
the liberty of resending it...

- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: coreutils-6.4 released (stable)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:13:36 -0600
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad AT users.sourceforge.net>
To: bug-m4 AT gnu.org
CC: bug-coreutils AT gnu.org, bug-gnulib AT gnu.org

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Perhaps if you get some free time you can write down the exact story
>> along those lines.
> 
> Yup. Let me try this with Eric's m4 1.4.8 candidate and get back to you. 
> I'll also re-post your patch (adjusted) if I have to hack on it again.

Ok. Using the latest snapshot Eric provided me with, m4 fails to build
on Tandem NSK/OSS. Using the above, *plus* this patch:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-10/msg00140.html
both 'make' and 'make check' succeed.

...and I finally figured out the problem is a simple '-l' (i.e. the
amount of whitespace in the patch differs from the sources I have). With
'patch -l' I was able to apply the above patch as-is. (Or at least, the
copy of it that I had laying around that I sure don't recall changing,
other than to strip the m4 changes. I am now wondering if something went
amiss in my copy-pasting that it wasn't working right off.)

Is that more helpful (I hope!)? :-)

- --
Matthew
"Inches: An antiquated measurement unit still in use in certain
backwards countries with incredibly low-cost computer equipment."
  -- groff documentation


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