Re: new coreutils snapshot; are they useful?

[Jim Meyering]

Bauke Jan Douma <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote on 14-02-07 14:48:
>> Last night I made another coreutils snapshot:
>>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz
>>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz.sig
>>   aka
>>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-ss-2007-02-14.00:04:10+0.tar.gz
>>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-ss-2007-02-14.00:04:10+0.tar.gz.sig
>> If you take the time to build/test, it'd be nice to let me or the
>> list
>> know, even if it's just to say that everything went fine.
>
> Builds fine here (bootstrap, configure w/o any arguments, make) on:

Thanks!

> Linux skyscraper 2.6.20 #2 PREEMPT Fri Feb 9 01:37:06 CET 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> including 'make check' -- apart from the following, which is prob. to be
> expected, since I'm building as root:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/rm'
> make  check-TESTS
> make[3]: Entering directory `/sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/rm'
> PASS: i-never
> cmp: EOF on out
> 0a1
>> rm: cannot remove `d/f': Permission denied
> FAIL: fail-eacces

Ah ha!  That might be a test bug.  I'll investigate.
Personally (on principle), I never build or even run "make check" as root.
Rather, I use the special target that runs only the root-only tests:
"make check-root".

> Also did a -Wall build, and for completeness, here are the warnings I'm
> getting -- no surprises here I take it:

Good!  I wish more people cared about those warnings.
If you add -Dlint to CFLAGS, all of those will go away.
FYI, I don't release even a snapshot unless a build with
CFLAGS='-O -Wall -Dlint -Wshadow' succeeds.