Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4

On 02/03/2012 02:38 PM, Michael Haardt wrote: > I am afraid that being active maintainer asks for more time than I have That's quite understandable. I used SunOS 4 heavily, but it's now just a museum piece, and it doesn't appear to be worth your time or ours to maintain GNU utilities on it. (If t

Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4

Eric Blake wrote: > Gnulib would be the place to fix this, but right now, gnulib has pretty > much abandoned SunOS 4 as a museum piece because no current developer > has access to that old of a platform in order to actively contribute > patches to keep it running. If you want to turn the tide and

Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4

Eric Blake wrote: > Gnulib would be the place to fix this, but right now, gnulib has pretty > much abandoned SunOS 4 as a museum piece Yup. For more info about gnulib's coverage of target platforms, see the documentation section here:

Re: [bug-idutils] [PATCH 1/9] tests: disable gnulib's get-rusage-as test

Hi Jim, > That test fails on Fedora 16 and I didn't have time to investigate. > Here are details, and I'm Cc'ing bug-gnulib: > > $ ./test-get-rusage-as > ../../gltests/test-get-rusage-as.c:56: assertion failed > zsh: abort (core dumped) ./test-get-rusage-as Can you please run it und

Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4

[adding gnulib] On 02/01/2012 03:54 PM, Michael Haardt wrote: > Hello, > > with a few tiny changes, grep builds on SunOS 4: > > lib/hash.h and lib/version-etc.h should include for > size_t. > > In lib/errno.h, EILSEQ should be defined if the system does not do that. > > lib/langinfo.in.h says

Re: fpurge.c on Plan9/APE

Jens Staal wrote: > I think the problem basically is that I do not fully understand what is > done in all those other OSes defined in fpurge.c and what is expected > from this function Yes, it's not easy to understand the various stdioext operations. Here is a tentative port to Plan9. Befor

Patch to README-release

I'm going through Jim's review. It seems sensible now to feed the patches in one by one. Here's the first. >From 52b48c111fed5d3708344c430dd59f819deeb77f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reuben Thomas Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:40:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Improvements to README-release * top/

Re: fpurge.c on Plan9/APE

On 02/03/2012 07:25 AM, Jens Staal wrote: >> I suggest getting a copy of the Plan 9 source code, >> and looking at how getchar and putchar work. > from stdio.h: Sorry, I meant the source code, as in stdio.c (or putchar.c, or whatever). That is, you can't merely look at the headers -- you need to

Re: fpurge.c on Plan9/APE

2012-02-03 06:35, Paul Eggert skrev: On 02/02/2012 08:14 PM, Jens Staal wrote: So I should use *rp and *wp - but how? I suggest getting a copy of the Plan 9 source code, and looking at how getchar and putchar work. from stdio.h: extern int getchar(void); #define getchar() getc(stdin) extern

Re: [bug-idutils] [PATCH 1/9] tests: disable gnulib's get-rusage-as test

Claudio Fontana wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> From: Jim Meyering >> >> * bootstrap.conf (avoided_gnulib_modules): Disable the get-rusage-as >> test: it's failing. > > Hi Jim, > > why are you disabling this test? > When I was maintaining idutils some years back al