Re: findutils on interix

2010-10-29 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 10/29/2010 07:49 AM, Markus Duft wrote: On 10/29/2010 01:11 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 10/28/2010 04:59 PM, Markus Duft wrote: thinking of gnulib, i can see a lot of potential problems, starting fex, that gnulib modules are copied into the packages, rather than gnulib beeing an installed li

Re: findutils on interix

2010-10-28 Thread Markus Duft
On 10/29/2010 01:11 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 10/28/2010 04:59 PM, Markus Duft wrote: >> thinking of gnulib, i can see a lot of potential problems, starting fex, >> that gnulib >> modules are copied into the packages, rather than gnulib beeing an installed >> library >> that is linked against

Re: findutils on interix

2010-10-28 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 10/28/2010 04:59 PM, Markus Duft wrote: thinking of gnulib, i can see a lot of potential problems, starting fex, that gnulib modules are copied into the packages, rather than gnulib beeing an installed library that is linked against (is this true always?). It is true that gnulib is usually

Re: findutils on interix

2010-10-28 Thread Markus Duft
On 10/28/2010 04:16 PM, Eric Blake wrote: [snip] > > That's exactly what gnulib is - a library of source code workarounds for > broken platform functions. Are you interested in porting your > libsuacomp fixes into gnulib, so that more GNU programs can support > Interix out of the box? (i'll take

Re: findutils on interix

2010-10-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/28/2010 06:43 AM, Markus Duft wrote: > On 10/28/2010 12:08 PM, Markus Duft wrote: >> On 10/28/2010 12:03 PM, James Youngman wrote: >> [snip] >>> In so far as we're likely ever to fix this problem I'd be inclined to >>> go for the 32K limit that Eric suggested. And perhaps treating >>> ENOME