Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 11:02:25 +0000 (13:02 +0200)]
maint: use ARRAY_CARDINALITY more
* src/sort.c (main): Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY, rather than open-coding it.
* src/factor.c (WHEEL_END): Likewise.
* src/csplit.c (main): Likewise.
* src/od.c: Likewise,
* src/ls.c (main): Likewise.
(N_ENTRIES): Remove definition. Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY instead.
* src/dircolors.c: Likewise.
(array_len): Remove definition.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 10:47:24 +0000 (12:47 +0200)]
build: tr: avoid a warning due to newer gcc's -Wenum-compare
* src/tr.c (N_CHAR_CLASSES): Remove anonymous enum definition.
(look_up_char_class): Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY, rather than N_CHAR_CLASSES.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 11:01:37 +0000 (13:01 +0200)]
maint: define ARRAY_CARDINALITY in system.h
* src/system.h (ARRAY_CARDINALITY): Define if not already defined.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 09:43:21 +0000 (11:43 +0200)]
build: turn off -Wlong-long
* configure.ac: With --enable-gcc-warnings, -Wlong-long would
cause compilation failure due to inclusion of lib/gethrxtime.h.
Initialize "nw".
Jim Meyering [Fri, 15 May 2009 13:04:52 +0000 (15:04 +0200)]
maint: cfg.mk: remove now-unnecessary gnulib_dir definition
* cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): Remove definition, now that gnulib's
maint.mk provides the default we want.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 15 May 2009 06:50:35 +0000 (07:50 +0100)]
tests: fix date-next-dow failure on older systems
* tests/misc/date-next-dow: In the strftime call use %Y-%m-%d
rather than the newer %F equivalent which is not available
on Solaris 8 for example.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 14 May 2009 07:55:44 +0000 (09:55 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for rename.m4 fix, improved tests, etc.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 14 May 2009 07:54:22 +0000 (09:54 +0200)]
maint: README-release: minor improvements
* README-release: Mention gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,...} settings in cfg.mk.
Now that XZ_OPT is set via maint.mk, don't mention it here.
Eric Blake [Thu, 7 May 2009 20:27:37 +0000 (14:27 -0600)]
truncate: fix bug in use of isspace
* src/truncate.c (main): Pass unsigned characters to isspace.
* NEWS: Mention this.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 May 2009 13:52:50 +0000 (15:52 +0200)]
post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 May 2009 13:35:19 +0000 (15:35 +0200)]
version 7.4
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention make check fixes.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 May 2009 13:17:53 +0000 (15:17 +0200)]
admin: update NEWS
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the date-related fixes.
(Portability): Mention the ACL-related fixes on *BSD.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 5 May 2009 11:00:15 +0000 (12:00 +0100)]
doc: note the use of LC_COLLATE in comm, join and uniq
* doc/coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): Simplify the
text to remove the inconsequential mentioning of order,
while implying that LC_COLLATE can alter equality comparisons.
* src/comm.c (usage): Mention LC_COLLATE is significant.
* src/join.c (usage): Ditto.
* src/uniq.c (usage): Ditto. Also improve the summary.
Suggestion from Andries Brouwer
Jim Meyering [Tue, 5 May 2009 05:54:47 +0000 (07:54 +0200)]
tests: rm/one-file-system: umount more reliably
* tests/rm/one-file-system: Run umount via trap, so it runs
also upon irregular termination.
Andreas Schwab [Tue, 5 May 2009 05:13:46 +0000 (07:13 +0200)]
tests: fix typo in check-AUTHORS rule
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Set locale.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 4 May 2009 05:47:56 +0000 (07:47 +0200)]
build: use a gnulib SHA1 that is not private
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest *public*.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 4 May 2009 05:10:12 +0000 (07:10 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for ACL-related fixes
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
David Bartley [Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:48:15 +0000 (03:48 -0400)]
mv, rm: adapt to new and improved gnulib interfaces
Use gnulib's new priv-set module and updated write-any-file.
With them, the remove-called can_write_any_file function no
longer tries to drop the unlink-directory privilege, so now
each caller of remove must do that separately, calling
priv_set_remove_linkdir.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add priv-set.
* src/rm.c: Include "priv-set.h".
(main): Call priv_set_remove_linkdir.
* src/mv.c (main): Likewise.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 2 May 2009 19:56:25 +0000 (21:56 +0200)]
tests: correct the "make check"-run check-AUTHORS test
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Revert back to using
en_US.UTF-8, to ease parsing (English-only) text around the
list of names, even when .po files are not installed.
Reported by Andreas Schwab.
Along the way, use $(AM_V_GEN), not "@".
(sc_tight_scope): Use $(AM_V_GEN) here, too.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest, for the proper_name_utf8 fix
that makes --version output print the UTF-8 rendering of author names
in more cases.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 3 May 2009 04:21:48 +0000 (06:21 +0200)]
tests: add tests of e.g., date -d 'next monday'
* tests/misc/date-next-dow: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/date-next-dow.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest, for getdate.y that
handles "next Monday" properly when run on a Monday.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 1 May 2009 16:19:19 +0000 (18:19 +0200)]
post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 1 May 2009 16:03:50 +0000 (18:03 +0200)]
version 7.3
* NEWS: Record release date.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 1 May 2009 15:55:11 +0000 (17:55 +0200)]
maint: tweak release-building notes
* README-release: Specify -j1 on the command to run all tests.
Otherwise, running some in parallel would cause failures, e.g.,
for rm/ext3-perf and tail-2/assert-2.
Eric Blake [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:18:49 +0000 (13:18 -0600)]
stdopen: remove unused code
* m4/stdopen.m4: Delete now-unused file.
* lib/stdopen.h: Likewise.
* lib/stdopen.c: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:23:49 +0000 (17:23 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for fixed lib/signbitl.c
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:50:40 +0000 (13:50 +0200)]
build: "make check" now fails in a friendlier manner for missing Perl
* doc/Makefile.am (sc-lower-case-var): Don't redirect stderr of
$(PERL) (which is sometimes build-aux/missing) to /dev/null,
so that a failing "make check" explains that Perl is not installed.
Reported by James Youngman.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:44:48 +0000 (13:44 +0200)]
build: doc: emit something for each "make check"-run rule
* doc/Makefile.am: Use $(AM_V_GEN) in place of each leading "@".
(check-texinfo): Align line-continuation backslashes.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:35:43 +0000 (07:35 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for the lib/*-state.c compilation fixes
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:49:04 +0000 (15:49 +0100)]
misc: correct NEWS entry about id -G portability
* NEWS (Portability): getgrouplist has the portability issues,
not getgroups.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:45:43 +0000 (14:45 +0200)]
df: adjust comment to match recent code change
* src/df.c (main): Update comment to match.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:18:54 +0000 (14:18 +0200)]
misc: mention the df vs. automount change
* NEWS (Portability): Mention that df now accommodates the new
behavior of some automounters.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:09:11 +0000 (14:09 +0200)]
misc: alphabetize NEWS entries
Tomas Smetana [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:21:49 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
df: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting
* src/df.c (main): When iterating over command-line arguments,
attempting to ensure each backing file system is mounted, use
open, not stat. stat is no longer sufficient to trigger
automounting, in some cases. Based on a suggestion from Ian Kent.
More details in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/497830
Ondřej Vašík [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:29:53 +0000 (17:29 +0200)]
tests: ensure that cp's -a doesn't silence --preserve=context
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Ensure that the -a option does not silence
error diagnostics from --preserve=context, when preserving context
is required.
Ondřej Vašík [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:23 +0000 (17:20 +0200)]
tests: add test for xattr diagnostics on dest. FS lacking xattr support
* tests/cp/cp-mv-enotsup-xattr: Ensure that xattr diagnostics are
displayed correctly when destination filesystem lacks xattr support.
* tests/Makefile.am (root_tests): Add new root-only test.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:35:50 +0000 (11:35 +0200)]
copy.c: factor out test for errno value indicating "unsupported"
* src/copy.c (errno_unsupported): New function.
(copy_attr_error, copy_internal): Use it.
Ondřej Vašík [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:29:45 +0000 (14:29 +0200)]
cp -a: diagnose failure when preserving xattr/context required
* src/copy.c (copy_attr_by_fs): Always print diagnostics when preserving
xattrs is required.
(copy_attr_by_name): Likewise.
(copy_reg): Always print diagnostics when preserving SELinux
context is required.
(copy_internal): Likewise. Also, do not ignore ENOTSUP and ENODATA
errors when preserving SELinux context is required.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Ondřej Vašík [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:00:35 +0000 (11:00 +0200)]
mv: ignore xattr-preservation failure when not supported by filesystem
*src/copy.c: Do not warn about xattr-preservation failure when xattrs
are not supported and preservation of xattrs is not explicitly required.
Reported by Eric Sandeen in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/496142
Jim Meyering [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:28:53 +0000 (10:28 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for the vc-list-files fix
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:23:48 +0000 (09:23 +0200)]
build: adjust use of automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable
* src/Makefile.am (dircolors.h, wheel-size.h, wheel.h, fs.h):
(version.c, version.h): Use $(AM_V_GEN) only as a prefix of an existing
command. Otherwise, it provokes warnings from some "make" programs.
Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:52:31 +0000 (07:52 +0200)]
tests: fix check-AUTHORS skip logic
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): When this test is skipped, be
sure to avoid all commands in the recipe, not just those passed
to the first shell.
Eric Blake [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:16:27 +0000 (20:16 -0600)]
cfg.mk: update to latest gnulib change
* cfg.mk (bootstrap-tools): Override maint.mk default to include
bison.
* gnulib: Update to latest gnulib.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:36:22 +0000 (21:36 +0200)]
build: move coreutils-specific rules from maint.mk to new file
* dist-check.mk: New file: coreutils-specific rules extracted
from maint.mk, now that maint.mk has migrated to gnulib.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add dist-check.mk.
* coreutils/cfg.mk: Include $(srcdir)/dist-check.mk.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:34:59 +0000 (21:34 +0200)]
tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test
* tests/misc/sort: Remove one of the generated tests.
363 remain in this file alone.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:16:46 +0000 (15:16 +0200)]
build: use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at) variables
* src/Makefile.am (dircolors.h, wheel-size.h, wheel.h, fs.h):
(version.c, version.h): Mark with $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at),
so that the latest automake prints "GEN $@" by default.
Simon Josefsson [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:07:43 +0000 (01:07 +0200)]
build: use maint.mk from gnulib
* maint.mk: Remove file. Now it's generated.
* .gitignore: Ignore it.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add maintainer-makefile.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:41:52 +0000 (13:41 +0200)]
build: make --enable-silent-rules the default
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove silent-rules. Instead,...
(AM_SILENT_RULES): Use this, with it's undocumented [yes] argument.
Those who want verbose build output may configure with
--disable-silent-rules or use "make V=1".
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:04:51 +0000 (21:04 +0200)]
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:45:27 +0000 (08:45 +0200)]
sort -m: don't segfault when output file is also an input file
* src/sort.c (avoid_trashing_input): Fix an off-by-one error and
guard the use of memmove.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/sort: Add tests to exercise the offending code.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Otavio Salvador in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:45:51 +0000 (08:45 +0200)]
tests: make the check-AUTHORS test more portable, now that it's...
run as part of "make check".
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Don't depend on en_US.UTF-8.
Instead, use the French UTF8 locale, if configure found one.
If not found, just skip the test.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:21:38 +0000 (08:21 +0200)]
avoid parallel "make distcheck" failure due to two run-in-src/ rules
Move the check-AUTHORS rule from "syntax-check" to "check".
* maint.mk (local-checks-available): Remove check-AUTHORS.
(check-AUTHORS): Remove rule.
* src/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add $(no_install__progs),
since they too are built sometimes.
(check-AUTHORS): Split a longer-than-80 sed command.
(../AUTHORS): Remove obsolete rule.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:44:18 +0000 (18:44 +0200)]
cp: work around linux kernel bug: short-read != EOF on /proc
Remove the optimization that avoided up to 50% of cp's read syscalls.
Do not assume that a short read on a regular file indicates EOF.
When reading from a file in /proc on linux [at least 2.6.9 - 2.6.29]
into a 4k-byte buffer or larger, a short read does not
always indicate EOF. For example, "cp /proc/slabinfo /tmp"
copies only 4068 of the total 7493 bytes. This optimization
(
25719a33154f0c62ea9881f0c79ae312dd4cec7a, Improve performance a bit
by optimizing away; 2005-11-24) appears to have been worth less than
a 2% speed-up (and usually much less), so the impact of removing it
is negligible.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't exit the loop early.
* tests/cp/proc-short-read: New test, lightly based on a suggestion
from Mike Frysinger, to exercise this fix.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp/proc-short-read.
* NEWS (Improve robustness): Mention this change.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:41:10 +0000 (21:41 +0200)]
tests: avoid new "make distcheck" failure due to newer File::Temp
With newer perl (e.g., Fedora 10's 4:5.10.0-68.fc10), tests/CuTmpdir.pm
stopped removing its temporary directories, with diagnostics like this:
cannot remove path when cwd is /c/coreutils/tests/misc/seq.tmp-e2up \
for /c/coreutils/tests/misc/seq.tmp-e2up: at \
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm line 902
Chdir out of the target directory before that code runs:
* tests/CuTmpdir.pm (END): chdir '..'.
(chmod_tree): Remove explicit "chdir $dir".
Jim Meyering [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:17:04 +0000 (09:17 +0200)]
doc: update README
* README: (Reporting bugs): List the bug-reporting address here, too,
not just in the following more test-oriented paragraph.
Reported by Tim Mooney.
All changes are no longer listed in version-controlled ChangeLog
files, so note that contributions are attributed in the commit logs.
Mention bootstrap.conf, now that it's the authoritative source of
minimal prerequisite program/version# pairs.
Aurelien Jarno [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:10:04 +0000 (18:10 +0200)]
tests: avoid failure of install-C test on FreeBSD UFS file system
* tests/install/install-C: Use 2755 (set-gid), not 1755 (sticky),
to test install -C with non-permission mode bits set. At least on
FreeBSD with a UFS file system, a non-root user may not set the
sticky bit on a non-directory.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:49:14 +0000 (21:49 +0200)]
comment touch up: insert a space between "#" and text of comment
* bootstrap: It's easier to read that way.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:37:29 +0000 (19:37 +0200)]
fix comment typos
* bootstrap: Fix comment typos.
* src/pr.c: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:10:57 +0000 (09:10 +0200)]
maint: bootstrap: sync a tiny change from gnulib
* bootstrap: rename variable to sync with gnulib: s/\$depth/$shallow/
Jim Meyering [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:42:20 +0000 (07:42 +0200)]
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:03:59 +0000 (07:03 +0200)]
build: use '.'-relative name, gnulib_dir
* cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): Use "gnulib", not "/gnulib", now that
the former is a git submodule, and guaranteed to exist.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:18:24 +0000 (20:18 +0200)]
maint: clean up skipped syntax-check rules
* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove patch-check and changelog-check.
* maint.mk (patch-check): Remove rule.
(local-checks-available): Remove patch-check.
(changelog-check): Remove rule.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:48:49 +0000 (14:48 +0200)]
build: avoid parallel distcheck failure
* Makefile.am (ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): Initialize here, too,
to please automake. Add install-root, check-root, distcheck-hook.
* cfg.mk (ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): Add sc_tight_scope.
* maint.mk (ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): Add patch-check,
check-AUTHORS, maintainer-distcheck, vc-dist, taint-distcheck,
my-distcheck, alpha, beta, major.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:50:14 +0000 (12:50 +0200)]
doc: fix a typo: s/is a is a/is a/
* doc/coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Fix typo.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:35:10 +0000 (11:35 +0200)]
build: tight-scope test: don't build excluded programs
* src/Makefile.am (sc_tight_scope): Depend on $(bin_PROGRAMS),
not $(all_programs)
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:12:10 +0000 (10:12 +0200)]
gnulib: update to latest: fix ls -v & sort -V
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:42:10 +0000 (08:42 +0200)]
maint: remove obsolete utime module
* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Remove utime.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:20:13 +0000 (08:20 +0200)]
maint: put each module name on its own line; sort
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): List them one per line.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:29:59 +0000 (15:29 +0200)]
tests: misc/ls-misc: avoid shadowing local decl of $e
* tests/misc/ls-misc (make_j_d): Rename latter $e to $env
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:43:15 +0000 (10:43 +0100)]
id: fix infinite loop on some systems
Steven Parkes reported that `id -G $USER` went into an infinite loop
on Darwin systems for users in more than 10 groups:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264007
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Work around buggy getgrouplist
implementations that don't update the required size correctly,
by doubling the result buffer and retrying. Also return the
parameter updated by getgrouplist rather than its return value,
as the documentation doesn't actually state the number of groups
stored is returned by getgrouplist.
* tests/misc/id-groups: Add test to exercise this logic
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* THANKS: Update
Jim Meyering [Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:16:00 +0000 (20:16 +0200)]
maint: avoid "make syntax-check" failure
* src/install.c (main): Tweak syntax of new diagnostic.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:14:58 +0000 (14:14 +0100)]
install: deprecate the --preserve_context option
src/install.c: Print a warning when --preserve_context
rather than --preserve-context is used as per FIXME.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:23:26 +0000 (12:23 +0100)]
maint: remove compiler warnings from randint and randread modules
* gl/lib/randint.c: Remove unused MAX macro
* gl/lib/randread.c (randread_error): Add __attribute__((__noreturn__))
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:42:15 +0000 (08:42 +0100)]
shred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default
Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797
to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred.
* gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal
pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom
* src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom
* src/shuf.c (usage); ditto
* src/sort.c (usage): ditto
* doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour
for aquiring random data.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:43:49 +0000 (07:43 +0100)]
maint: Clarify ambiguous refs to Linux kernels or GNU/Linux systems
* README-prereq: s_linux_GNU/Linux_ or s_linux_Linux kernel_
* README-valgrind: ditto
* src/chown-core.c: ditto
* src/dd.c: ditto
* src/df.c: ditto
* src/ls.c: ditto
* src/mv.c: ditto
* src/pwd.c: ditto
* src/remove.c: ditto
* src/shred.c: ditto
* src/stat.c: ditto
* src/su.c: ditto
* src/system.h: ditto
* src/timeout.c: ditto
* src/truncate.c: ditto
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:21:51 +0000 (19:21 +0100)]
doc: add missing documentation for some SELinux options
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Describe the --context (-Z) option
(install invocation): Describe the --preserve-context and -Z options
(id invocation): Describe the --context (-Z) option
(mkdir invocation): ditto
(mknod invocation): ditto
(mkfifo invocation): ditto
* TODO: remove the todo item
Jim Meyering [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:59:52 +0000 (07:59 +0200)]
* doc/code-vs-command: Remove long-unused, never-distributed file.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:52:22 +0000 (22:52 +0200)]
gnulib: update to latest: includes Solaris 8 portability fixes
Jim Meyering [Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:39:44 +0000 (12:39 +0200)]
maint: clean up Makefile.am, rename remaining ChangeLog files
* Makefile.am (changelog_etc, syntax_check_exceptions): Define.
(EXTRA_DIST): Use. Remove names that are now automatically
included: build-aux/git-version-gen, build-aux/vc-list-files.
* build-aux/ChangeLog-2007: Rename from */ChangeLog.
* doc/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* lib/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* m4/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* po/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:51:11 +0000 (16:51 +0200)]
tests: tweak po_check syntax check
* maint.mk (sc_po_check): Don't let dangling lib/*.[ch] links cause
spurious "grep: lib/file.h: No such file or directory" warnings.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:44:44 +0000 (16:44 +0200)]
tests: improve ChangeLog syntax check
* maint.mk (sc_changelog): Use $(VC_LIST_EXCEPT), not find.
Don't hang when there are no ChangeLog files.
(sc_require_config_h): For the file-name-filter, use grep -l
to be slightly more efficient.
(sc_require_config_h_first, _header_without_use, sc_program_name):
Likewise.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:25:18 +0000 (10:25 +0200)]
tests: make syntax-checks more robust
* maint.mk (_prohibit_regexp): Add ';' at end of ':'-introduced
comment so that the comment doesn't gobble up the following test
for a missing regexp definition.
(_header_without_use): Escape all '.'s in a header file name,
not just the first one.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:05:10 +0000 (22:05 +0200)]
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate once more.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:52:16 +0000 (21:52 +0200)]
doc: adjust 7.2 "cat,cp,install,mv,split speed-up" NEWS item
* NEWS: Reword an entry from 7.2 and change "linux" to "GNU/Linux".
The latter was requested by Richard Stallman.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:29:21 +0000 (14:29 +0000)]
ls: fix alignment when month names have varying widths
Reported by Samuel Thibault and Stéphane Raimbault, as the glibc fr_FR
locale has recently changed to use the official but variable width
abbreviated month names. Other glibc locales also have variable widths.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-locales/2008-q1/msg00035.html
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9859
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* gl/lib/mbsalign.c: A new module to align and truncate a
string in a specified number of screen cells, while handling
multi-byte characters appropriately.
* gl/lib/mbsalign.h: Ditto
* gl/modules/mbsalign: Ditto
* bootstrap.conf: Reference the new module
* src/ls.c (abmon_init): New function, precompute the abbreviated
months aligned left in a minimum width column <= 5 screen cells.
(align_nstrftime): New function, replace the first %b in the
format specification to strftime with the precomputed month string.
Note using the cached month strings speeds up `ls -lU` by around 17%
on glibc-2.7-2 on linux at least. Also if we implement this function
using heap storage rather than automatic storage, and use snprintf
instead of strcpy, ls will slow down by 2% and 1% respectively
(i.e. a net gain of 14% rather than 17%).
* tests/ls/abmon-align: A new test to test ls alignment for
various formats and locales
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:59:54 +0000 (18:59 +0100)]
doc: Clarify the help for version sorting in ls and sort
* src/ls.c: Update the -v help description
* src/sort.c: Update the -V help description
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:44:09 +0000 (13:44 +0200)]
doc: adjust README-prereq instructions
* README-prereq: Reverse order of -b/--track options.
Pádraig Brady mentioned that is required with at least git-1.5.3.6.
Invoke automake's own bootstrap script.
C de-Avillez [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:35:28 +0000 (09:35 -0500)]
build: require automake-1.10b or newer
* bootstrap.conf: Require at least automake-1.10b.
* README-prereq: Mention 1.10b, not 1.10a.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:59:54 +0000 (16:59 +0200)]
tests: skip mv/i-3 if /dev/stdin is unreadable
* tests/mv/i-3: Skip if /dev/stdin is unreadable.
Reported by Sergei Steshenko.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:43:35 +0000 (20:43 +0200)]
build: set automake's silent-rules option via configure.ac
* bootstrap: Revert commit
9f39fa855, 2009-03-28,
"build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible".
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Instead, set it here.
Require the just-released version of automake: 1.10b.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:47:07 +0000 (09:47 +0200)]
tests: enable automake's color-tests and parallel-tests via configure.ac
* gnulib-tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Don't define here.
* tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Likewise.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Instead, add color-tests and
parallel-tests here.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:40 +0000 (12:15 +0100)]
build: use Automake's new parallel-tests feature
* build-aux/check.mk: Remove, not needed any more.
* tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add parallel-tests and
color-tests.
* tests/check.mk: Do not include build-aux/check.mk any more.
(SUFFIXES, TEST_LOGS): Remove.
(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Use $$f rather than $$tst in $PERL invocation.
* gnulib-tests/Makefile.am: Do not include build-aux/check.mk.
(AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): New macro, add parallel-test and color-tests.
(TEST_LOGS): Remove.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:28:41 +0000 (20:28 +0200)]
* README-release (savannah news): Also mention the Subject: to use.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:48:50 +0000 (14:48 +0200)]
post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:11:57 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
version 7.2
* NEWS: Record release date.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:54:14 +0000 (19:54 +0200)]
tests: don't use lang-default from individual tests
* tests/sample-test: Don't recommend using lang-default here.
It is now run for each test automatically, via TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
* tests/dd/reblock: Don't source lang-default here.
* tests/misc/truncate-fail-diag: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:42:34 +0000 (19:42 +0200)]
tests: other-fs-tmpdir: remove just-added duplicate /usr/tmp
* tests/other-fs-tmpdir (CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS): Remove 2nd /usr/tmp.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:59:23 +0000 (09:59 +0200)]
tests: other-fs-tmpdir: avoid bogus "skipped **********..." diagnostic
* tests/other-fs-tmpdir (CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS): Add /dev/shm to the list.
Don't use a line of asterisks as the first line of the "why skipped"
diagnostic, now that that line is printed on 'make check's stderr.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:48:24 +0000 (12:48 +0100)]
build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible
* bootstrap: Use automake's --silent-rules option.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:33:26 +0000 (17:33 +0100)]
tests: test-argv-iter.c: avoid declaration-after-stmt
* gl/tests/test-argv-iter.c: Move declaration "up", so as not
to ruffle feathers of crufty compilers. We accommodate such
compilers here solely because this module may migrate to gnulib.
Tiny patch by Matthew Woehlke.
Eric Blake [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:39:14 +0000 (06:39 -0600)]
tests: fix 'make sc_tight_scope' on cygwin
* src/Makefile.am (sc_tight_scope): Ignore leading underscores in symbols.