Re: building old coreutils versions on new glibc systems

[Assaf Gordon]

On 2019-08-13 11:45 p.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 8/13/19 8:10 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > I'd only like to see following additional changes:
> >
> > - make the script callable from an arbitrary directory, i.e.,
> >    make the file name of the patches relative to the script, and
> >
> > - mention to adjust MANPATH (because that also works with the
> >    common directory: 'man df-8.23').
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> ... and we need to make
>    sc_prohibit_tab_based_indentation and
>    sc_long_lines
> happy again.
>
> (BTW: The latter would alternatively be fixed if the patches would
> be named *.diff instead of *.patch.)

Thanks again for the review and improvements.

Pushed here with your suggestions (+ very minor script changes):
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=b8609c7cf

-assaf


P.S.
We can still add a new web page (echoing the README.older-versions)
to the coreutils website, to ease finding this information via a search 
engine - WDYT ?