[Platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.12.193-d8dc8

[Jim Meyering]

Here's another pre-release snapshot.

There have been a lot of improvements since the preceding snapshot.
Looking through summaries below, I realize that I should add to NEWS
(and should have mentioned in the "build: update gnulib submodule to
latest" commit log) that several gnulib changes fixed a long-standing
bug in cp wrt NFSv4, when copying non-trivial ACLs.  Thanks to Bruno
Haible for all of the new code and tests in gnulib.

I hope to be able to make the coreutils-8.13 release on Wednesday.

coreutils snapshot: (.gz files are here, too)
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz      4.8 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-8.12.193-d8dc8.tar.xz

There are .gz and .sig files here, too:
  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/cu/coreutils-8.12.193-d8dc8.tar.xz

Changes in coreutils since 8.12.178-df9cd:

Bernhard Voelker (1):
      tests: improve message in 'require_membership_in_two_groups_' function

Bruno Haible (1):
      tests: init.sh: work also with any non-GNU diff that supports -u

Jim Meyering (7):
      tests: invoke via "env printf", rather than using an absolute name
      tests: misc/printf: accommodate alternate behavior
      tests: printf-surprise: avoid false-positive failure
      tests: pwd-long: diagnose failure earlier
      tests: cut: exercise distro-added multibyte code paths
      tests: remove require-perl script; use function instead
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest

Pádraig Brady (6):
      build: avoid the use of strsignal() in split
      stdbuf: fix helper lib identification on some platforms
      timeout: suppress a redundant warning on some systems
      tests: split/l-chunk: avoid a portability issue
      timeout: fixup previous warning fix
      doc: describe test control variables


Changes in gnulib since 8.12.178-df9cd:

* gnulib 47cb657...f8e2db8 (49):
  > parse-datetime: document the newly accepted format
  > autoupdate
  > acl: Fix a test failure on newer Solaris 10 with ZFS.
  > acl: Update for AIX >= 5.3 with NFS.
  > acl: Fix a test failure on AIX >= 5.3 with NFS.
  > acl: Fix a test failure on IRIX 6.5 with NFS.
  > openat: port to AIX 7.1 with large files
  > acl: Avoid errors on NonStop Kernel.
  > acl: Clean up Solaris code.
  > acl: Fix a bug with NFSv4 ACLs on Solaris 10 (newer version).
  > acl: Improve support of NFSv4 ACLs on Solaris 10 (newer version).
  > copy-file: Try unit tests on more file systems.
  > acl: Try unit tests on more file systems.
  > acl: Remove unused code in last commit.
  > acl: Improve support of NFSv4 ACLs on Solaris 10 (newer version).
  > openat: test for fstatat (..., 0) bug
  > openat: test for fstatat (AT_FDCWD, ..., 0) bug
  > avoid literal : in index entries
  > Allow the user to override the choice of AR, ARFLAGS, RANLIB.
  > Find 'ar' program that fits with --host argument.
  > tests: init.sh: Support any non-GNU diff.
  > tests: init.sh: work also with any non-GNU diff that supports -u
  > strtoimax, strtoumax: Document problem on HP-UX 11.
  > strtoumax: Avoid link error on OSF/1 with DTK cc.
  > strtoimax: Avoid link error on OSF/1 with DTK cc.
  > imaxdiv: Avoid link error on OSF/1 with DTK cc.
  > imaxabs: Avoid link error on OSF/1 with DTK cc.
  > Tests for module 'strtoumax'.
  > Tests for module 'strtoimax'.
  > Tests for module 'imaxdiv'.
  > Tests for module 'imaxabs'.
  > pthread: Determine $(LIB_PTHREAD) correctly on IRIX 6.5.
  > * lib/fstatat.c: Include <sys/types.h> before <sys/stat.h>.
  > openat: work around AIX 7.1 fstatat issue
  > sys_select: Avoid a syntax error regarding timespec_t on IRIX 6.5.
  > tests: avoid spurious assertion failure in test-float.c on ppc64
  > maint: indent with spaces, not TABs
  > test-parse-datetime.c: accommodate a relatively strict gcc warning
  > parse-datetime: accept ISO 8601 date and time rep with "T" separator
  > freopen: Documentation.
  > freopen: Don't crash if the filename argument is NULL.
  > openat: work around AIX 7.1 fstatat bug
  > Avoid endless recursions if config.h includes some header files.
  > autoupdate ylwrap
  > autoupdate ylwrap
  > autoupdate
  > tmpdir: Use a good default directory on native Windows.
  > autoupdate
  > doc: fix typo in README-release