Re: sharutils 4.8 has been released

[Bruce Korb]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Bruce Korb on 2/19/2010 2:39 PM:
>> Primary focus:  version 3 of GPL
>> Secondary: minor bug fixes & gnulib-ification
>>
>> Download:  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.8.tar.gz
> 
> This package is broken on non-glibc machines, because it tries to use the
> non-existent gnu_basename (provided by a macro in basename.h).
> 
> gcc-4  -O2 -pipe    -o unshar.exe unshar.o encode.o   ../lib/libgnu.a
> -lintl ../lib/libgnu.a
> unshar.o:unshar.c:(.text+0x836): undefined reference to `_gnu_basename'

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the patch.  Unfortunately, popen() fails on my platform
when the mode argument is "rb".  I think some global fopen_read_mode
variable needs to be configured.  If you'd please be kind enough to
figure out what tests need to be performed, then I'll glue it in.
Thanks! - Bruce