Re: coreutils-6.4 released (stable)

[Matthew Woehlke]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Perhaps if you get some free time you can write down the exact story
> > along those lines.
>
> Yup. Let me try this with Eric's m4 1.4.8 candidate and get back to you. 
> I'll also re-post your patch (adjusted) if I have to hack on it again.

Ok. Using the latest snapshot Eric provided me with, m4 fails to build 
on Tandem NSK/OSS. Using the above, *plus* this patch:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-10/msg00140.html
both 'make' and 'make check' succeed.

...and I finally figured out the problem is a simple '-l' (i.e. the 
amount of whitespace in the patch differs from the sources I have). With 
'patch -l' I was able to apply the above patch as-is. (Or at least, the 
copy of it that I had laying around that I sure don't recall changing, 
other than to strip the m4 changes. I am now wondering if something went 
amiss in my copy-pasting that it wasn't working right off.)

Is that more helpful (I hope!)? :-)

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Matthew
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