Re: syncing md5 against glibc

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The glibc maintainers didn't accept this patch, see:
>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1439
>
> I can understand why Ulrich would not want such a patch.
> It's probably hard to justify risking glibc stability for a relatively
> large change that merely makes working code a little more maintainable
> and portable to non-gcc compilers.
>
>> Ok to install the following?  The glibc bug is linked in
>> config/srclist.txt for future archeological expeditions.
>
> Fine with me.
> I'll be happy to use it in coreutils, once I've made a stable release.

I have installed it.  Thanks!