Re: coreutils-6.4 released (stable)

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > Does this include all the patches that have been flying around for NSK?
> > > I've been meaning to apply those, but between some in gnulib, some in
> > > coreutils, and some that need manual filtering to apply at all, I
> > > haven't gotten to it.
> > That release includes a snapshot of gnulib state from
> > the day of the release.  So, yes, it should have all of
> > the patches mentioned on this list and on bug-gnulib.
>
> It has all the patches that have been applied to gnulib,
> but it doesn't have this patch:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-10/msg00140.html
>
> Matthew, you need to apply only the lib/* part for
> coreutils, to save you the hassle of rerunning Autoconf etc.
> If the above patch works for you, please let us know.

Thanks for the clarification; I'll do that.

> Also, there is evidently a bug with shifting long long int
> when -O is used, which it'd be nice to have 'configure'
> detect automatically, but which in the meantime Matthew can
> work around by configuring without -O.

Right, I'm not using -O so no worries here. Playing with this more is 
still on my to-do list.

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Matthew
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