Re: a coreutils release is imminent

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> Now that all of the tests are once again passing on the coreutils
> build-bot, I expect to make a coreutils release in the next day or two.
> There is still a minor problem in that users of Solaris ZFS file systems
> NFS-mounted on non-Solaris systems will see that cp -p sometimes tries to
> copy ACLs when it shouldn't, but that's not worth holding up the release.
>
> In the mean time, here's the latest snapshot:
>
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz.sig
>
> Please build it and run "make -k check" on a few unusual
> systems today or tomorrow and report any problems.  That might
> save someone (yourself, even) some trouble down the road.

As of a few minutes ago those files have been
updated to include this fix from gnulib:

2007-03-20  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * lib/string_.h (strndup): Enable declaration also if ! HAVE_STRNDUP.
        Needed on AIX 5.1. Reported by Matthew Woehlke.