Re: snapshot in a few hours

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 9/4/2009 10:17 AM:
>> If anyone knows of bug-related fixes that aren't yet applied,
>> please speak up.  I'm thinking of making a snapshot today,
>> leading to a bug-fix release, coreutils-7.6, next week.
>>
>> Eric, I'm open to the idea of using the latest from gnulib
>> if you think it's worthwhile.  If that would mean a bit of adaptation
>> in coreutils, I can postpone the snapshot to Monday.
>
> At least one more adaptation needed - I'm changing link-follow.m4 to
> define LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS as a tri-state (1 yes (losing system), 0 no
> (good, like GNU), and -1 unknown (decide at runtime, so that
> cross-compilation doesn't guess wrong).  This won't affect ln.c, but
> copy.c needs to use #if LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS instead of #ifdef.

Sounds good.
Now, there are enough reasons to wait until Monday.