Re: coreutils bootstrapping issue on non-GNU platforms

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: > "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Doesn't the previous code actually produce the _maximum_ version (that > > is, with sort .. | tail -1)? > > Yes, and thanks for catching that. Hmm, nobody has used this since > December 30? Anyway, I installed this: Thanks fo

wctype simplification for IRIX 5.3

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Eggert
I installed this, in response to the recent bug reports for IRIX 5.3 by Georg Schwarz. 2007-01-05 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't worry about using IRIX 5.3's wctype.h broken definitions; simply work around them. * lib/wctype_.h: Remove test for HAVE_WCTYPE_CTMP_BU

Re: Autoconf manual's coverage of signed integer overflow & portability

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this will only confuse the matter. I think it's worth mentioning that integer overflow, in theory at least (we hope not in practice) actually allows that sort of aggressive optimization. However, I've tried to reword the example to make it less

Re: new module fchdir

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruno Haible wrote: >> Following Jim's and Paul's ideas for portability of the coreutils to >> BeOS, Woe32 and DJGPP, which all lack an fchdir(), here is a first working >> fchdir module. > > And the infamous NSK! Thanks a ton, you beat me too it! Gues

Re: base64.c vs. newlines

2007-01-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In the mean time -- sometimes it's easier to review things >> when they're checked in... > > Thanks! I hope to review it soon. Sorry about the delay on this... > I'm still catching up many things after an alm