RE: mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

On 29 March 2007 00:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Dave, > > * Dave Korn wrote on Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:01:59PM CEST: >> >> As the subject line says, mdate-sh can get badly confused if there are >> spaces in the textual version of the uid or gid. > > Yep: >

Re: mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

Hi Dave, * Dave Korn wrote on Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:01:59PM CEST: > > As the subject line says, mdate-sh can get badly confused if there are > spaces in the textual version of the uid or gid. Yep: Eric's patch see

mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

Afternoon all, As the subject line says, mdate-sh can get badly confused if there are spaces in the textual version of the uid or gid. I don't know how often this happens on real unix systems, but it's a very common occurrence on Cygwin systems, causing this: /src/nongnu/remake-3.80+dbg-

Re: depcomp and libtool on AIX

[ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00068.html ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:02:20PM CEST: > On AIX, --disable-static is the default for libtool (for some reason > not important for the following issue). This exposed a bug in depcomp. [...] So n

Re: fix coreutils' "make distcheck": remove AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR(lib)

[ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00067.html ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:07:09PM CEST: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:02:05PM CEST: > > > > I think that the patch has broken the error message in the > > procedure. Attached

Re: automake/511: ./config.status in generated makefile conflicts with AM_MAKEFLAGS=-f alternativemakefilename

[ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-11/msg1.html ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:33:52PM CET: > > OK to apply? (make check is still running.) This passed back then (yes, I remember ;-) I applied the patch to HEAD and branch-1-10. The checkin trig

Re: Question on compile & test / automake version 1.9.6 / test yacc6.test

[ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-11/msg4.html ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:45:24PM CET: > * Jurzitza, Dieter wrote on Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:53:34AM CET: > > The point is: > > I cannot compile successfully (or, better to say, I cannot run > > y

Re: pkgdatadir can be overridden

[ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-11/msg3.html ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:05:49PM CET: > OK to apply? I verified that Automake 1.6.3 fails this test, > but I didn't bother to track down the change that fixed it. I have applied this to HEAD an

Re: some pending patches

Hi Alexandre, all, * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:49:07AM CEST: > > Ralf, please go ahead and apply the patches you deem appropriate. Thank you. I'm starting off with some easy ones and work my way through the last two "pending patches" lists, when I have time. For one

Re: mdate-sh vs. evil user/group names

Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes: > > Hi Eric, > > Apologies for the delay. > > * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:24:14PM CET: > > mdate-sh fails miserably in the presence of user/group names that contain > > spaces (bad practice, but particularly common on cygwin). > [...] > > OK t

Re: mdate-sh vs. evil user/group names

Hi Eric, Apologies for the delay. * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:24:14PM CET: > mdate-sh fails miserably in the presence of user/group names that contain > spaces (bad practice, but particularly common on cygwin). [...] > OK to apply this patch? This patch looks ok for HEAD and b