On Jan 14 16:33, Eric Blake wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > On Jan 13 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: > > > In trying to get the newly released coreutils 5.3.0 tarball working on > > > cygwin, I discovered that cygwin chown() has a bug. Background: > > Do you intend to take over maintainership of coreutils? I would be *so* > > happy! > > You're on to me! I was hoping to get a successful build locally before > making my intents public, but yes, I was trying to see if I could take > over maintainership.
COOL! Thank you so much. Are you aware that, after you've taken over maintainership and released the new coreutils package, you will receive a couple of brand new shiny gold stars? If that's not motivating, I don't know what motivation is ;-) > > Did you see my Cygwin specific patches in the source tar archive of > > coreutils 5.2.1 in the Cygwin net distro? It's all in the subdirectory > > called "CYGWIN", diffs and ChangeLogs. > > I've seen the patches, but haven't tried to fold them into the 5.3.0 release > yet. I'm not sure how easily they will apply, so I wanted to get a pristine > coreutils tarball working as much as possible first. I don't think the changes are that difficult. There are a couple of changes to get this .exe handling done, a few Makefile tweaks here and there and of course the dummy su script. Feel free to ask for details! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
