Re: new test release of textutils: 2.0.17

[Jim Meyering]

"Matthew Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:

> A couple of nits:
>
> Line 180 of system.h is this:
> # define SET_MODE(_f, _m) set_mode (_f, _m)
>
> Shouldn't it be this:
> # define SET_MODE(_f, _m) setmode (_f, _m)

Thanks.  I've made that change.

> With this change, textutils-2.0.17 will build on cygwin out of the box.
> Also, the .info documentation seems to be out of date.  There is the
> coreutils.info, which has info for a bunch of tools not part of the
> textutils distro.  I guess the idea is that textutils is part of
> "coreutils"?  The problem with this is that at least on cygwin, the info

Here's a FAQ with the details:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/core-utils-faq.html

> pertaining to non-textutils tools is extraneous.

Then I guess the solution is obviously `just' to port the other packages :-)

> Also, there is no mention
> of sha1sum in the .info docs.  Other than that, things are looking good.

Thanks.  I've just put that on the to-do list.