Re: GNU tar 1.19 doesn't build on Solaris 8 due to strerror problem

2007-10-11 Thread Eric Blake-1
> GNU tar 1.19 doesn't build on Solaris 8, because strerror.c uses > CHAR_BIT without defining it. The problem occurs on any hosts that > has strerror but where strerror(-2) doesn't return a useful string. I'm committing this followup: From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007

Re: GNU tar 1.19 doesn't build on Solaris 8 due to strerror problem

2007-10-11 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paul, > The new version no longer caters well to ancient Unix > hosts that lack strerror but have sys_errlist doc/functions/strerror.texi needs an update to reflect this. Bruno

Re: i-ring test

2007-10-11 Thread Bruno Haible
> > 2007-10-11 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * modules/i-ring-tests: New file. > > * tests/test-i-ring.c: Renamed from lib/i-ring-test.c. Use ASSERT > > instead of assert. > > That looks good, too. > Thanks for the clean-up. Committed as well.

Re: filenamecat test

2007-10-11 Thread Bruno Haible
> > 2007-10-11 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * modules/filenamecat-tests: New file. > > * tests/test-filenamecat.c: New file, extracted from lib/filenamecat.c. > > * lib/filenamecat.c: Remove test code. > > That looks fine. > You're welcome to commit it. Thanks. Committe

GNU tar 1.19 doesn't build on Solaris 8 due to strerror problem

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Eggert
GNU tar 1.19 doesn't build on Solaris 8, because strerror.c uses CHAR_BIT without defining it. The problem occurs on any hosts that has strerror but where strerror(-2) doesn't return a useful string. strerror.c contains multiple copies of integer-printing code, and one copy neglects to include ,

Re: filenamecat test

2007-10-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The test embedded in lib/filenamecat.c is not interactive and therefore could > make a good automatic unit test. How about this patch? As a side effect, it > will also verify that filenamecat.h really declares the function. > > 2007-10-11 Bruno Haible <[E

filenamecat test

2007-10-11 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, The test embedded in lib/filenamecat.c is not interactive and therefore could make a good automatic unit test. How about this patch? As a side effect, it will also verify that filenamecat.h really declares the function. 2007-10-11 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modules/fil

vc-dwim-1.0: a version-control-agnostic ChangeLog diff and commit tool

2007-10-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Not much has changed over the last few months, but there have been notable improvements since the last release. Here are the tarball and signature: http://et.redhat.com/~meyering/vc-dwim-1.0.tar.gz http://et.redhat.com/~meyering/vc-dwim-1.0.tar.gz.sig