coreutils, branch v8.4

version 8.4

2010-01-13T20:57:54Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

tests: avoid spurious failures on older shells

2010-01-13T12:42:49Z

* tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse: Use kill rather than wait to determine if the tail process is still running. * tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: Ditto.

tests: work around spurious test failure with OpenBSD4.5's /bin/sh

2010-01-13T09:55:55Z

* tests/ls/infloop: OpenBSD4.5's /bin/sh would mistakenly include "set -x"-output in an application's stderr stream when stderr is redirected before stdout. This was causing one spurious test failure. The work-around: redirect stdout first. Reported by Nelson Beebe.

tests: don't silently skip the sort-version tests

2010-01-13T09:21:02Z

* tests/misc/sort-version: Don't use <<- and indented here-doc contents. s/<<-/<[4]: here document `x' unclosed [Exit 1] by contrast, bash warns but still exits successfully: $ printf 'cat<<-x\n foo\n x\n'|bash && echo you lose bash: line 3: warning: here-document at line 1 delimited by \ end-of-file (wanted `x') foo x you lose

tests: avoid spurious failure on old kernel

2010-01-12T13:00:05Z

* tests/touch/no-dereference: Skip test if utimensat doesn't support symlinks. Reported by Bernhard Voelker.

maint: update info about getting the prerequisite automake

2010-01-12T10:32:08Z

* README-prereq: Now that we require automake-1.11.1 update the instructions from getting it from the git repo

maint: remove an already handled item from TODO

2010-01-12T10:29:36Z

* TODO: The question regarding printf octal escapes is answered in commit 4bcefa62, 2003-04-21, "Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug ..."

maint: fix tests on solaris by using /usr/xpg4/bin

2010-01-12T10:26:27Z

* tests/check.mk: Prepend /usr/xpg4/bin to the $PATH if present. Using the more standard utilities allows tests such as misc/printenv, which uses the -E option to grep, to complete.

build: update gnulib, to get fixed getlogin-related tests

2010-01-12T08:56:07Z

build: fix build failure due to missing libxattr

2010-01-12T07:06:47Z

Configure is supposed to detect insufficient XATTR support. However, if a system has the required headers, but no library, the configure script would mistakenly enable USE_XATTR. * m4/xattr.m4 (gl_FUNC_XATTR): If the attr_copy_file function is not found, don't set USE_XATTR. Nelson Beebe reported a link failure on RHEL 5.3. Also, do not let the combination of --disable-xattr and a stray LIB_XATTR environment setting perturb the build. * NEWS (Build-related): Mention it.