Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/03/19 09:10, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 05/03/19 15:57, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 3/4/19 11:18 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>   tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
>>>   cd coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e/
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Newer openSUSE:Leap-15 and SUSE:SLE-15 seem to be fine (some archs are still 
>> building),
>> but the builds on all SUSE:SLE-12 versions and e.g. not so fresh openSUSE 
>> Leap_42.3 (released
>> 2017-07-26, maintained until June 2019) fail:
>>
>> Older makeinfo-4.13a seems to have problems with the addition of the
>> macro '@{hashchar}' of commit v8.30-33-g2f438fa9f:
> 
> Cool, we should probably use Assaf's patch to avoid that.
> Though I also am surprised that makeinfo is needed at all.
> Before release I checked the extracted archive had appropriate timestamps.
> I used:
> 
>   stat -c '%y %n' coreutils-8.26/doc/* | sort
> 
> to check that:
> 
>   constants.texi <= version.texi <= stamp-vti <= coretuils.info
> 
> Can you see if that is not the case for you.

I suppose if you had local patches to some of the .c files,
that would regenerate constants.texi, thus triggering a rebuild.