Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.29.64-1755f.tar.xz

[Matias Fonzo]

Hello,

I can't test this snapshot because the testsuite tries to unset
the COLUMNS variable for shells that insist to use it, like mksh.

This come from envvar-check.sh

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:02:07 -0700
Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:

> We plan to release coreutils-8.30 in the coming week
> so any testing you can do on various different systems between now
> and then would be most welcome.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.3 MB) from:
>   https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
> 
> And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
>   https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
>   MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = 3ce92d2c8da2842328415dab8d1f4bbc
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> To test follow this standard procedure:
> 
>   tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
>   cd coreutils-8.29.64-1755f/
>   ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
> 
> Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> Changes since the previous snapshot are:
> 
> commit 1755ffb7b607c1870ce7e7cbcc867895e0c2c262
> Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Jun 27 01:44:51 2018 -0700
> 
>     maint: disable overly aggressive sc_gitignore_redundant
> 
>     * cfg.mk (sc_gitignore_redundant): Disabled for now as too
>     aggressive flagging entries like /lib/arg-nonnull.h in
>     a newly checked out repo.
> 
> commit a68efd128328e14b802032a5c6c585528b6d5b8e
> Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jun 26 23:52:38 2018 -0700
> 
>     env: adjust diagnostics provided for shebang usage
> 
>     * src/env.c (main): Don't process '-' specially since
>     that causes an issue on the openbsd getopt implementation
>     where a lone '-' is now processed as an option, and anyway
>     it doesn't particuarly help diagnosing common shebang
>     usage issues.  Also don't restrict the extra diagnostics
>     for shebang usage to the case with 3 arguments, as
>     further arguments can be passed to a script.
>     * tests/misc/env-S.pl: Adjust accordingly.
> 
> commit 4b7595d751872442d043f6116a453d3b43b3253d
> Author: Assaf Gordon <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jun 26 05:04:45 2018 -0600
> 
>     tests: accept getopt errors without single-quotes
> 
>     On OpenBSD 6.2, invalid single options produce error messages
>     without single quotes:
> 
>         $ ./src/chroot -/
>         chroot: unknown option -- /
> 
>     As opposed to other systems:
> 
>         ./src/chroot: invalid option -- '/'
> 
>     Modify the grep search to accept this.
> 
>     * tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh (checkprg): Change the grep
> pattern to accomodate no-single-quotes cases.
> 
> commit d542945c3a8198096fc018f56c2ff7338e1405c7
> Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jun 26 00:43:00 2018 -0700
> 
>     tests: fix false failures when perl not available
> 
>     * tests/local.mk: Reference the stub that skips perl tests,
>     with the correct path.
> 
> commit 6d6095f33a108493e76daa8221a08bb403a3ea7d
> Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jun 26 00:39:48 2018 -0700
> 
>     tests: fix false failure with limited shebang lines
> 
>     * tests/misc/env-S-script.sh: Provide a wrapper to
>     emulate shebang processing, but without length limits,
>     which are 127 on Linux for example.
> 
> commit 91d78a570ffee4eeb87b8030690c39de99748239
> Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Jun 27 00:48:03 2018 -0700
> 
>     maint: update gnulib to latest
> 
>     * gnulib: Update to latest, which incorporates
>     a thread linking fix from Bruno Haible,
>     which was seen on newer Ubuntu systems.
> 
> commit 3e5dcddba7466d5d594cd39cc0b543224a7def4a
> Author: Assaf Gordon <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jun 26 12:59:11 2018 -0600
> 
>     tests: remove unused Data::Dumper perl module
> 
>     The module is not needed anymore (was used during development).
>     Despite being a Perl core module, platforms like CentOS don't
> install it by default.  Reported by Bruno Haible at
>     https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-06/msg00093.html.
> 
>     * tests/misc/csplit-suppress-matched.pl: Remove Data::Dumper.
> 
> thanks,
> Pádraig
>