Re: coreutils-6.4 released (stable)

[Paul Eggert]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm quite certain I remember it bombing (there are 'unsigned long
> long's sprinkled in there without it). But I am guessing the problem
> is just that CVS is a little off of coreutils-6.4, which is what I was
> trying to patch. I think the main problems were things like
> 'HAVE_LONG_LONG' vs. 'HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT' which caused 'patch' to
> reject most of the hunks. Applying the patches by hand was fine and
> (as I stated on bugs-m4) gave a successful build that passed 'make
> check'.

This is all very confusing, I'm afraid.  I am not sure what works
and what does not.

Let's put it this way.  I'd like a story that sounds like this:

   CVS coreutils + CVS gnulib does not work on my platform.  When I do
   "configure; make", the "make" fails with the following symptoms.
   This is because "configure" sets up include files in such-and-such
   a way, and the standard include files work in such-and-such a way,
   and the C compiler has such-and-such properties.  However, if I
   apply the enclosed patch before running "configure", then things
   work fine.

Perhaps if you get some free time you can write down the exact story
along those lines.