Jim Meyering [Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:08:03 +0000 (19:08 +0100)]
* NEWS: Add the "Bug fixes" heading.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:56:02 +0000 (00:56 +0100)]
"rm" as root would fail to unlink a non-directory on OS X 10.4.x
* src/remove.c (remove_entry) ["can unlink directories"]: Fix a
mistakenly reversed condition.
* NEWS: Mention this bug fix.
Reported by Pieter Bowman.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:08:16 +0000 (14:08 +0100)]
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust shred.c offsets.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:42:18 +0000 (00:42 +0100)]
Reflect change in gnulib: don't include getpagesize.h,
now that it's provided by unistd.h.
* src/cat.c: Don't include getpagesize.h.
* src/copy.c: Likewise.
* src/dd.c: Likewise.
* src/shred.c: Likewise.
* src/split.c: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:02:26 +0000 (21:02 +0100)]
Copy a .po file into place also when the target doesn't exist.
* bootstrap (gnulib_tool): ... not just when the checksum differs.
So now, if I manually remove po/xx.po, rerunning bootstrap will
copy the latest into place.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:53:43 +0000 (20:53 +0100)]
Make my-distcheck depend on "check".
* Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Also depend on "check", so I can't tag
and release something that fails "make check" (however harmless) when
run in a checked-out-from-git dir, but not in the distributed tarball.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:39:40 +0000 (18:39 +0100)]
* NEWS: Add the usual "Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.91..." line.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:19:04 +0000 (16:19 +0100)]
Remove just-installed su, if unable to make it set-UID root.
Normally, su isn't even installed. However, if you configure with
--enable-install-program=su, and then install with insufficient
privileges, we now make sure to remove the just-installed binary.
* src/Makefile.am (install-exec-hook): Rename from install-exec-local,
so that this rule is guaranteed to be run *after* installation.
If unable to chown and chmod the installed "su" program, remove it.
Reported by Greg Schaefer.
Bob Proulx [Sun, 2 Dec 2007 07:57:38 +0000 (08:57 +0100)]
Make test script, existing-perm-race, executable.
* tests/cp/existing-perm-race: Update file mode.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:11:13 +0000 (23:11 +0100)]
.prev-version: Record previous version: 6.9.90.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 21:46:33 +0000 (22:46 +0100)]
Version 6.9.90.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 21:45:56 +0000 (22:45 +0100)]
NEWS: Remove the now-untrue statement about cp vs. dangling symlinks
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:52:45 +0000 (19:52 +0100)]
Change release procedure: tag *before* running e.g., "make stable".
* Makefile.maint (vc-dist): Don't tag. Now, you must apply the tag
before running "make beta", "make stable", etc.
(vc-tag-check): Remove rule. No longer makes sense.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:03:00 +0000 (19:03 +0100)]
* Makefile.maint (vc-tag-check): Correct check for existing git tag.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:50:40 +0000 (18:50 +0100)]
Defer NEWS and ChangeLog checks until after the version-changing tag.
* Makefile.maint (alpha beta major): Don't depend on the
news-date-check changelog-check targets. They must fail before
applying the version-changing tag. Instead, run them after "vc-dist".
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:05:53 +0000 (18:05 +0100)]
* NEWS: Mention some of the SELinux changes.
Record release date and new version number.
* src/stat.c (main): Adjust a comment.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:42:40 +0000 (17:42 +0100)]
TODO: Add entries (documentation needed); remove the "add mktemp program" one.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:04:30 +0000 (17:04 +0100)]
Add "extern" keyword to declaration of cp_options_default.
* src/copy.c (cp_options_default): Mark as "extern", so the
"sc_tight_scope" part of "make distcheck" passes.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:18:00 +0000 (16:18 +0100)]
Change comments: say bug present up to coreutils-6.9, not fixed in 6.10.
* tests/cut/Test.pm: Adjust comment.
* tests/misc/cut: Likewise.
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Likewise.
* tests/misc/od: Likewise.
* tests/misc/stty-invalid: Likewise.
* tests/tr/Test.pm: Likewise.
Paul Eggert [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 09:10:52 +0000 (10:10 +0100)]
Add a test for cp -p and existing file permissions.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add existing-perm-race.
* tests/cp/existing-perm-race: New test. It isn't much of a
test yet, since it's hard to catch the race, but it has a FIXME
that will let us do a better test later.
Paul Eggert [Sat, 1 Dec 2007 09:09:57 +0000 (10:09 +0100)]
Fix a security race with "cp -p A B" when B already exists.
* src/copy.h (struct cp_options): New member owner_privileges.
* src/copy.c (USE_ACL): Define to 0 if not defined, for convenience.
(owner_failure_ok): New function.
(set_owner): Avoid a security-related race by doing an extra chmod
first if it looks like there might be trouble right after a chown.
Accept a source struct stat rather than a uid and gid, and
accept a boolean NEW_DST and destination struct stat.
All callers changed.
* src/copy.h (cp_options_default): New function, replacing the
old chown_privileges.
* src/copy.c (cp_options_default): Likewise.
* src/cp.c (cp_option_init): Use it.
* src/install.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
* src/mv.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:05:07 +0000 (17:05 +0100)]
Avoid a spurious test failure when build directory is set-GID.
* tests/cp/fail-perm: Ensure that '.'s set-GID bit is off.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:45:38 +0000 (13:45 +0100)]
Be extra careful to quote $abs_top_builddir-derived names.
* tests/misc/ls-misc (shell_quote): New function.
Use it to quote file names derived from $abs_top_builddir,
in case it contains shell meta-characters. This is not currently
needed, since CuTmpdir detects the fishy name and skips the test.
But it's important enough to add the extra protection.
Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:40:25 +0000 (13:40 +0100)]
Include test name in the "unsafe working directory name" diagnostic.
* tests/CuTmpdir.pm (import): If $ME is '-', use $prefix.
Ralf Wildenhues [Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:14:57 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
Add quotes to protect against white space in build dir name.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Quote $(abs_srcdir).
* tests/chmod/setgid: Quote absolute names.
* tests/misc/help-version: Likewise.
* tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Likewise.
* tests/rmdir/ignore: Likewise.
* tests/test-lib.sh: Likewise.
Ralf Wildenhues [Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:25:09 +0000 (10:25 +0100)]
Define `tst', for CU_TEST_NAME.
* build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Set `tst', for
CU_TEST_NAME in tests/check.mk.
Ralf Wildenhues [Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:53:38 +0000 (08:53 +0100)]
* tests/CuTmpdir.pm (END): Do not do the cleanup if $dir is not
defined, because it then goes wild and changes the mode of all
directories below $HOME. Undefined $dir can happen if the test
is to be skipped because of an unsafe working directory name.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:32:54 +0000 (08:32 +0100)]
Close a file descriptor leak when cp --preserve=context fails.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Close dest_desc too, if getfscreatecon
or fsetfilecon fail.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:44:24 +0000 (22:44 +0100)]
README: Document the known problem with gettext <= 0.17.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:29:38 +0000 (22:29 +0100)]
* gl/modules/randread (Depends-on): Remove nonexistent rand-isaac.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:50:27 +0000 (19:50 +0100)]
Don't block use of 'cat' or 'wc' in "make check".
* Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Add "cat" and "wc" to the list
of programs that we can't blacklist.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:26:25 +0000 (19:26 +0100)]
Fix md5sum+sha*sum on sparc: regenerate files with latest autoconf.
* configure et al: Regenerate with very latest version of autoconf
(v2.61a-312-gb524b0f), to fix md5sum and sha*sum miscompilation
on big-endian systems (like sparc) due to lack of the required
definition in of WORDS_BIGENDIAN in lib/config.h.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:34:58 +0000 (16:34 +0100)]
setuidgid.c: more cleanup
* src/setuidgid.c: Include "mgetgroups.h".
(main): Don't presume there's a fixed limit on the maximum number
of group IDs. Don't use NGROUPS; it's artificially low.
Change the name of a local: s/gids_count/n_gids/.
Remove non-portable "const": s/const int tmp =.../int tmp =.../
Jim Meyering [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:39:47 +0000 (18:39 +0100)]
Document install's -D option.
* doc/coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document -D.
Reported by Akim Demialle.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:26:03 +0000 (18:26 +0100)]
setuidgid: Update --help output.
* src/setuidgid.c (usage): Describe -g GID[,GID1...] option.
Mention that USER may be a numeric ID or a user name.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:57:05 +0000 (10:57 +0100)]
Tweak new test.
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Split some long lines.
Prepend "+" to numeric uid and gid chown arguments, on principle.
Use skip_test_.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:36:01 +0000 (13:36 +0100)]
setuidgid: minor clean-up.
* setuidgid.c: Include "xstrtoul.h".
(main): Detect overflow in string-to-gid_t and -to-uid_t conversions.
Improve diagnostics.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:30:28 +0000 (13:30 +0100)]
setuidgid.c: Normalize leading white space: no more TABs
Lasse Collin [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:51:10 +0000 (13:51 +0100)]
Test the new feature: cp -p preserves the GID whenever possible.
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: New file. Test for today's change.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add preserve-gid.
* tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add tc.
(tc): New target.
Lasse Collin [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:25:24 +0000 (11:25 +0200)]
setuidgid: accept numeric UID, and new option -g GID,GID1,GID2,...
* src/setuidgid.c: Add functionality for the new test above.
Lasse Collin [Fri, 9 Nov 2007 23:07:37 +0000 (01:07 +0200)]
"cp -p" tries to preserve GID even if preserving the UID fails.
* NEWS: Mention this new feature.
* src/copy.c (set_owner): Try to preserve just the GID,
when initial fchown/lchown fails.
* src/cp.c (re_protect): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:03:23 +0000 (09:03 +0100)]
* src/runcon.c (main): Remove unused parameter, "envp".
Jim Meyering [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:44:51 +0000 (22:44 +0100)]
Add tests to show new class of strings accepted by date -d.
* tests/misc/date (rel-1day, rel-plus1): New tests for the recent
change in gnulib's getdate.y.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:24:17 +0000 (09:24 +0100)]
Quiet warnings about unused parameters.
* src/copy.c (set_author) [!HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR]:
"Use" each of the parameters.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:44:38 +0000 (08:44 +0100)]
* GNUmakefile: Correct the "rerunning..." diagnostic.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:42:32 +0000 (08:42 +0100)]
Make it easier to diagnose PATH-induced "make distcheck" failures.
* Makefile.maint (write_loser): Define.
(my-distcheck): Use an always-failing wrapper script, that gives
a diagnostic, not "false".
Run only "make -C tests check" with the restrictive PATH.
Run the new gnulib-tests/ with the usual PATH.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:31:15 +0000 (09:31 +0100)]
cp: by default, refuse to copy through a dangling destination symlink
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe the new behavior.
* src/copy.c: No longer include "canonicalize.h".
(copy_reg): Upon failure to open a dangling destination symlink, don't
canonicalize the name, but rather fail (default) or, with POSIXLY_CORRECT,
repeat the open call without O_EXCL (potentially dangerous).
* src/copy.h (struct cp_options) [open_dangling_dest_symlink]:
New member. Reorder the others, grouping "bool" and "enum"
members together.
* tests/cp/thru-dangling: Test for changed and new behavior.
* src/cp.c (cp_option_init): Initialize new member.
* src/install.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
* src/mv.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:13:17 +0000 (22:13 +0100)]
Fix Pádraig's name in ChangeLog.
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:45:51 +0000 (20:45 +0100)]
Improve the descriptions of the split command options.
* doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation):
Jim Meyering [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:41:06 +0000 (18:41 +0100)]
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust seq.c offsets.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:37:08 +0000 (18:37 +0100)]
* src/seq.c (print_numbers): Rewrite in an attempt to avoid the
more-general rounding issues exposed by the previous patch.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:20:37 +0000 (21:20 +0100)]
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust seq.c offsets.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:19:33 +0000 (21:19 +0100)]
Remove unused parameter in remove.c.
* src/remove.c (fd_to_subdirp): Remove unused parameter.
(remove_cwd_entries, remove_dir): Update callers.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:55:45 +0000 (11:55 +0100)]
bootstrap: work also with 4-argument variant of AC_INIT (from gnulib)
2007-11-18 Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
* bootstrap (gnulib_extra_files): Adjust sed command.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:04:07 +0000 (10:04 +0100)]
Correct preceding patch.
* src/seq.c (print_numbers): Also handle first < last && step < 0.
* tests/misc/seq [empty-rev]: New test for this case.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:39:42 +0000 (09:39 +0100)]
"seq .1 .1" would mistakenly generate no output on some systems
* NEWS: Say this.
* src/seq.c (print_numbers): Handle another floating point corner case.
This avoids failure of seq's eq-wid-7 test on FreeBSD 6.1.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:04:08 +0000 (00:04 +0100)]
Port tests/rmdir/ignore away from GNU/Linux.
* tests/rmdir/ignore: Don't assume that rmdir($PWD) will fail
with errno==ENOTEMPTY when $PWD is not empty; Posix also allows
rmdir to fail with errno==EBUSY.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:08:19 +0000 (11:08 +0100)]
Avoid an obscure new "make distcheck" failure.
* Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Also allow 'mv', for its use
in gnulib-tests/Makefile.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:04:31 +0000 (11:04 +0100)]
Port readlink-fp-loop to Solaris.
* tests/misc/readlink-fp-loop (symlink_loop_msg): New var,
which records the symlink-loop message, whose wording is
not standardized by Posix. Do not rely on "echo x > p/1"
to work when p/1 has a lot of indirect symlinks. (I'm surprised
that it works on Linux. Perhaps a Linux bug?)
Jim Meyering [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:03:03 +0000 (11:03 +0100)]
Port to Solaris 'make' and use a Posixish shell on Solaris.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gnu-make, posix-shell.
* build-aux/check.mk (SHELL): Set to $(PREFERABLY_POSIX_SHELL),
so that commands can assume Posix syntax.
(ENABLE_HARD_ERRORS, TEST_LOGS): Don't use GNU Make's "?=" syntax.
(SH_E_WORKAROUND): New macro.
(am__check_pre, $(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Use it.
(am__check_pre): Fail if "mkdir" fails. Use $(SHELL)
rather than relying on the "#!/bin/sh" in the file, so that tests
can use Posix syntax.
(am__check_pre, am__tty_colors): Use $$src rather than $$<, to
support the Posix-make $(TEST_LOGS) rule.
(%.log: %.test, %.log: %$(EXEEXT)): Remove unused inference rules
that rely on a GNU Make extension and cause Solaris 'make' to fail.
(SUFFIXES): New macro, so that we can use Posix style inference rules.
(%.log: %): Use this rule only if GNU_MAKE.
Set $$src so that macros can use $$src rather than $$<.
(CHECK-FORCE, DEPENDENCY, $(TEST_LOGS)): New macros and rules,
which rely only on Posix 'make' semantics, and are used only with
non-GNU 'make' implementations. $(TEST_LOGS) invokes 'make'
recursively (and a bit inefficiently) to simulate the GNU 'make'
rules.
(.log.html): Renamed from "%.html: %.log", so that it relies only
on Posix 'make' semantics.
(check-clean, .PHONY): Do not depend on check-clean-local, since
Solaris 'make' complains about nonexistent rules like that.
* src/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES): Remove; no longer needed.
(groups): Use a specific rule rather than an inference rule that
is only instantiated once. The inference-rule approach does not
work with Solaris 'make', which gets confused by the "groups:
Makefile" line. It's not clear from the Posix spec that Solaris
'make' is buggy here, so instead of worrying about it, rewrite
the makefile so that it clearly conforms to Posix.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Export PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
GNU 'make' does this automatically for us, but Solaris 'make'
doesn't.
2007-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Paul Eggert [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:35:54 +0000 (09:35 +0100)]
Port to Solaris 8 perl, which does not support "use warnings;".
* tests/dd/skip-seek: Skip test if "use warnings;" fails.
* tests/du/files0-from: Likewise.
* tests/misc/base64: Likewise.
* tests/misc/basename: Likewise.
* tests/misc/cut: Likewise.
* tests/misc/date: Likewise.
* tests/misc/dircolors: Likewise.
* tests/misc/dirname: Likewise.
* tests/misc/expand: Likewise.
* tests/misc/expr: Likewise.
* tests/misc/factor: Likewise.
* tests/misc/fmt: Likewise.
* tests/misc/fold: Likewise.
* tests/misc/head-elide-tail: Likewise.
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-newline: Likewise.
* tests/misc/mktemp: Likewise.
* tests/misc/od: Likewise.
* tests/misc/paste-no-nl: Likewise.
* tests/misc/pr: Likewise.
* tests/misc/seq: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha1sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha1sum-vec: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha224sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha256sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha384sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha512sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sort-merge: Likewise.
* tests/misc/stat-printf: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/test-diag: Likewise.
* tests/misc/tsort: Likewise.
* tests/misc/unexpand: Likewise.
* tests/misc/wc-files0-from: Likewise.
* tests/misc/xstrtol: Likewise.
* tests/mv/i-1: Likewise.
* tests/rm/empty-name: Likewise.
* tests/rm/unreadable: Likewise.
Andreas Schwab [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:06:12 +0000 (14:06 +0100)]
* m4/include-exclude-prog.m4 (gl_REMOVE_PROG): Fix syntax error.
Remove trailing space from result.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:04:13 +0000 (13:04 +0100)]
Avoid misbehavior of a cross-device "mv" or "install".
Those programs must not dereference a destination symlink.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't treat a dangling destination symlink
differently in move mode. In move mode, the only way the added
O_EXCL can cause failure is when some other process has recreated
the file this code unlinked a few instructions before.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:52:42 +0000 (23:52 +0100)]
Another bootstrap kludge.
* bootstrap: Ensure gnulib-tests/test-*.sh are executable
Jim Meyering [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:34:19 +0000 (23:34 +0100)]
src/install.c (setdefaultfilecon): Stub-out the entire function.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:36:10 +0000 (22:36 +0100)]
#ifdef-out matchpathcon-related code, for now.
* src/install.c (setdefaultfilecon): #ifdef-out all of the
matchpathcon-related code, until it's more efficient.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:37:06 +0000 (20:37 +0100)]
Use gnulib's stpncpy module, now required by install.c
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add stpncpy.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:33:07 +0000 (18:33 +0100)]
Enable gnulib-tool's --with-tests option.
* bootstrap: After all is done, transform the generated gnulib-tests/gnulib.mk.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_tool_option_extras): Set it here.
* gnulib-tests/Makefile.am: New file.
* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add gnulib-tests.
* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add gnulib-tests/Makefile.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS) [ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL]: Omit the
"extern " prefix to "void usage ()", so that the macro string value can
be used to construct a function definition in gnulib's test-argmatch.c.
Benno Schulenberg [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:00:53 +0000 (00:00 +0100)]
Likewise for description of cp -a in doc/coreutils.texi: s/-dpPR/-dpR/.
Benno Schulenberg [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:13:32 +0000 (19:13 +0100)]
Clarify description of cp's -a option.
* src/cp.c (usage) [-a]: Remove unnecessary 'P'.
Since option -d of 'cp' includes the function of -P, mentioning the
latter in the description of option -a is redundant and therefore
slightly confusing, as the reader tries to figure out what it adds.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:36:55 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
bootstrap: fix typo to enable use of $gnulib_tool_option_extras.
* bootstrap (gnulib_tool_options): Add a space before the use
of $gnulib_tool_option_extras, so that it's separated from the
preceding argument.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:31:31 +0000 (17:31 +0100)]
install+SELinux: reduce a 12x performance hit to ~1.5x
* src/install.c (setdefaultfilecon): Call matchpathcon_init_prefix,
to mitigate what would otherwise be a large performance hit due to
the use of matchpathcon.
Dan Walsh suggested the use of matchpathcon_init_prefix.
* gl/lib/se-selinux.in.h (matchpathcon_init_prefix): Define.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:35:04 +0000 (18:35 +0100)]
Adapt to gnulib's s/jm_/gl_/ cache variable renaming.
* configure.ac: Change the cache variable name prefix "jm_" to "gl_",
to match today's change in gnulib.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:06:38 +0000 (18:06 +0100)]
Fix bootstrap failure to handle files like lib/uniwidth/cjk.h.
* bootstrap (cp_mark_as_generated): Create any required parent
destination directories before copying a file into place.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:57:09 +0000 (14:57 +0100)]
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust offsets.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:03:08 +0000 (12:03 +0100)]
Don't use GNU-sed-specific \< \> operators here, either.
* m4/include-exclude-prog.m4 (gl_REMOVE_PROG): Use a loop, as below.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:05:55 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]
Use tighter regexps when performing name substitution.
* man/Makefile.am (mapped_name): Add ^ and $$ anchors.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:03:55 +0000 (11:03 +0100)]
Don't use GNU-sed-specific \< \> operators.
* configure.ac (MAN): Transform ginstall.1 to install.1 using
a loop, rather than sed with \<...\>.
Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
Andreas Schwab reminded me that \< and \> are not portable.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 07:31:51 +0000 (08:31 +0100)]
Get git-version-gen from gnulib.
* build-aux/git-version-gen: Remove file.
* build-aux/.gitignore: Add git-version-gen.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add git-version-gen.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:52:33 +0000 (22:52 +0100)]
git-version-gen: Sync from autoconf's version.
* build-aux/git-version-gen: Run git-status
Jim Meyering [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:04:40 +0000 (18:04 +0100)]
Sync copyright and scriptversion bits from gnulib.
* build-aux/git-version-gen: No semantic change.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:46:42 +0000 (17:46 +0100)]
Change the first '-' to '.' in the snapshot version string,
e.g., 6.9-377-08144 -> 6.9.377-08144
* build-aux/git-version-gen: ... and add comments.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 09:10:38 +0000 (10:10 +0100)]
seq: add another test for the %% bug
* tests/misc/seq (fmt-c): Test the other fixed case, too.
Paul Eggert [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 08:10:59 +0000 (01:10 -0700)]
Fix bug with "seq 10.8 0.1 10.95", plus another bug with %% in format.
* NEWS: Mention the %%-in-format bug fix.
* src/seq.c (struct layout): New type.
(long_double_format): New arg LAYOUT. Fill it in. Fix mishandling
of %% in formats.
(print_numbers): New arg LAYOUT. Don't convert LAST to output format
when deciding whether to go slightly past LAST. Instead, convert
X to output format and back. This fixes a bug reported by
Andreas Schwab in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00237.html>
where "seq 10.8 0.1 10.95" would output 11.0 on platforms where
10.95 rounds to a value that prints as 11.0 when only one digit
past the decimal point is asked for.
(main): Compute layout, for benefit of print_numbers.
* tests/misc/seq (float-3): Undo previous change, since the bug
should be fixed now.
(fmt-b): New test, for the %% bug.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 22:39:41 +0000 (23:39 +0100)]
tests/misc/printf-surprise: Correct sed transform.
Reported by Bob Proulx.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:34:36 +0000 (22:34 +0100)]
Add example inspired by "make dist" running gzip and lzma in sequence.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tee invocation): Show how to run tar just
once, compressing the tee'd output streams in parallel.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:25:28 +0000 (21:25 +0100)]
Say that the first process substitution example is contrived.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tee invocation): ... and show how to do
it properly. Pointed out by James Antill.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:58:17 +0000 (18:58 +0100)]
Use mktemp, not mkdtemp, to create test directories.
* tests/test-lib.sh: Use the mktemp binary we've just built,
not the mkdtemp script.
* tests/mkdtemp: Remove file.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mkdtemp.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:10:06 +0000 (12:10 +0100)]
Adjust a seq subtest not to depend on the vagaries of floating point.
* tests/misc/seq (float-3): Use 10.94 as the endpoint, not 10.95,
since 10.95 was precisely in the middle of the interval, and with
a %.1f format could map to either 10.9 or 11.0.
Reported by Mike Frysinger
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:06:11 +0000 (12:06 +0100)]
Make the new printf-surprise test more precise.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_ulimit_): New function.
* tests/misc/printf-surprise: Use ulimit -v to trigger the fixed bug,
and rather than checking printf's exit status (which would go wrong
on FreeBSD 6.1, since their printf(3) function doesn't require
lots of memory in this case) simply test whether it outputs
the first 10 bytes.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:59:08 +0000 (11:59 +0100)]
Accommodate FreeBSD 6.1 hard-link-to-symlink differences.
* tests/cp/same-file: Detect when linking to a symlink links to
the target of the symlink (FreeBSD 6.1 does this, Linux does not),
and skip the few tests that would otherwise fail.
Redirect output of final comparison to stderr, since all stdout
is already redirected.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:42:17 +0000 (08:42 +0100)]
Fix a "make distcheck" failure.
* Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Don't stub-out dirname,
since build-aux/check.mk now uses it.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:40:51 +0000 (08:40 +0100)]
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add xprintf-posix.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:17:59 +0000 (11:17 +0100)]
Avoid seq floating-point test failure on FreeBSD 6.1.
* tests/misc/seq (float-4): Also accept -0.0.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:24:39 +0000 (12:24 +0100)]
Change a "make dist" diagnostic.
* GNUmakefile: Don't imply that $(_curr-ver) is the new version string.
Bob Proulx [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:10:23 +0000 (05:10 -0600)]
Improve color terminal escape usage.
* build-aux/check.mk (am__tty_colors): Use 'tput' to deduce
terminal color capabilities.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:37:09 +0000 (10:37 +0100)]
Don't try to colorize a dumb terminal.
* build-aux/check.mk (am__tty_colors): Skip colors if $TERM is "dumb".
Thanks to Bob Proulx.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:14:58 +0000 (10:14 +0100)]
Remove gnulib's printf-posix module, for now.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): It caused too many test failures.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:01:25 +0000 (10:01 +0100)]
Remove spurious semicolon after "else".
* build-aux/check.mk (am__tty_colors): Fix syntax error.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:49:50 +0000 (09:49 +0100)]
Attribute suggestion for last change.