Re: Fwd: Re: [Platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.12.178-df9cd

[Jim Meyering]

Markus Duft wrote:
> On 09/08/11 10:17, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Markus Duft wrote:
> [snip]
>>>
>>> gcc is 4.2.4 and there is no chance to get a newer one to work
>>> currently (i have big problems forward porting my patches). but i
>>> /think/ it's the library support anyway thats broken. it seems to be
>>> somewhere in the printing (fprintf, sprintf). if i run an unpatched
>>> "seq 1 10", i get this:
>>>
>>> mduft coreutils-8.12.193-d8dc8 $ ./src/seq 1 10
>>> 0
>>> 0
>>> -2
>>> 0
>>> -0
>>> -2
>>> -26815615859885194199148049996411692254958731641184786755447122887443528060147093953603748596333806855380063716372972101707507765623893139892867298012168192
>>> 0
>>> -0
>>> -0
>>>
>>> in [1], Bruno Haible suggested some test from the gnulib test-suite,
>>> with which i can investigate the problem more deeply, which i'm now
>>> doing (as time allows).
>>
>> Please pursue that first.
>> If improving the printing or conversion functions in gnulib
>> can solve your problem, then making changes to coreutils would
>> be counterproductive.
>
> problem solved without requirement for a patch here: i patched gcc to
> have 64bit long doubles, and now all works like a charm.

Good news.  Thanks for letting us know.