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Re: coreutils-6.4 released (stable)


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: coreutils-6.4 released (stable)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:02:50 -0800
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 --------
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:13:36 -0600
> From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad AT users.sourceforge.net>
> ...
> 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.

As Bruno mentioned in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-11/msg00092.html>,
he'd rather not head down this path due to the high cost/benefit
ratio.  Even if M4 builds with the abovementioned patch, the approach
will likely cause runtime misbehaviors -- almost certainly in
coreutils, and quite possibly also in M4.

Perhaps there's a better way.  In
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-11/msg00069.html>
I asked Matthew Woehlke why the patch was actually needed -- as it's
not 100% clear to me -- and that hasn't been followed up on yet.




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