Re: implementing tw

2010-05-06 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On today's Austin Group meeting (the people that standardize POSIX), it > was mentioned that the next version of POSIX might do well to > standardize tw(1).  http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/man/man1/tw.html > It seems like this would be a nice

Re: Findutils failure due to reliance /bin/echo

2010-05-06 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 05/06/2010 05:13 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> On 05/05/2010 04:30 PM, James Youngman wrote: >>> FAIL: l1, unexpected failure, child process exited abnormally, >>> /tmp/nix-build-iqdrm25mpg40iivc59hjmdjjay1rfifp-findutils-4.5.10-git.drv-0/findutils-4.5.10-git/xargs/testsuite/../xa

Re: Findutils failure due to reliance /bin/echo

2010-05-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Eric Blake writes: > On 05/06/2010 09:13 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> Even if it is also available as a shell builtin, that does not >>> alleviate the requirement to also have it available on $PATH. >> >> echo(1) *is* available in $PATH in the build environment, just like all >> of Coreut

Re: [PATCH] fix bugs in run_in_dir ()

2010-05-06 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Thursday 06 of May 2010 15:03:32 Kamil Dudka wrote: > Hello, > > attached is a patch fixing bugs of run_in_dir () which I encountered while > doing backport of #19593 for stable findutils. Thanks in advance for > considering the patch! Folow-up: diff --git a/lib/dircallback.c b/lib/dircallbac

Re: Findutils failure due to reliance /bin/echo

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/06/2010 09:13 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Even if it is also available as a shell builtin, that does not >> alleviate the requirement to also have it available on $PATH. > > echo(1) *is* available in $PATH in the build environment, just like all > of Coreutils. > > What would you think of

[PATCH] fix bugs in run_in_dir ()

2010-05-06 Thread Kamil Dudka
Hello, attached is a patch fixing bugs of run_in_dir () which I encountered while doing backport of #19593 for stable findutils. Thanks in advance for considering the patch! Kamil diff --git a/lib/dircallback.c b/lib/dircallback.c index 8497bee..ed36ee2 100644 --- a/lib/dircallback.c +++ b/lib

Re: Findutils failure due to reliance /bin/echo

2010-05-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Eric Blake writes: > On 05/05/2010 04:30 PM, James Youngman wrote: >> FAIL: l1, unexpected failure, child process exited abnormally, >> /tmp/nix-build-iqdrm25mpg40iivc59hjmdjjay1rfifp-findutils-4.5.10-git.drv-0/findutils-4.5.10-git/xargs/testsuite/../xargs: >> /bin/echo: No suc

implementing tw

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On today's Austin Group meeting (the people that standardize POSIX), it was mentioned that the next version of POSIX might do well to standardize tw(1). http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/man/man1/tw.html It seems like this would be a nice thing to add into findutils, as it combines the best of fin

Re: Findutils failure due to reliance /bin/echo

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/05/2010 04:30 PM, James Youngman wrote: > FAIL: l1, unexpected failure, child process exited abnormally, > /tmp/nix-build-iqdrm25mpg40iivc59hjmdjjay1rfifp-findutils-4.5.10-git.drv-0/findutils-4.5.10-git/xargs/testsuite/../xargs: > /bin/echo: No such file or directory T

Re: Findutils failure due to reliance /bin/echo

2010-05-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi James, James Youngman writes: > [ CC += bug-findutils@gnu.org ] > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi James, >> >> James Youngman writes: >> >>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi James, Hydra Build Daemon writes: >