Re: next release version of findutils?

[Karl Nordström]

Hi Kamil, hi Bernhard,

thank you for the response and your input.

I played around with the git clone yesterday when I tried to understand 
what went wrong. Conda has a bias towards release versions with static 
URLs though, but with the help of your inputs I think I'm quite close to 
something satisfactory.

In the end I borrowed most of the patches from Fedora (Is there a good 
way to reference/cite them?) and worked around the quirks of the build 
systems.

When the new version comes out I will update the conda recipe.

Again, thank you for your help.

Best,

Karl


On 09.08.2018 08:40, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:30:39 AM CEST Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > On 08/08/2018 09:49 AM, Karl Nordström wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I wanted to ask whether there is a new release for findutils comming up?
> > >
> > > I want to add it to conda-forge and am having trouble passing make
> > > check. Partly perhaps due to inexperience, but I think some of the tests
> > > have been updated since 4.6.0. I think one such example is mbrtowc:
> > >
> > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=1f63650823cebf52044
> > > df840c81062ccb52163a2
> > >
> > > The build system is very bare-bones and I'm also having problems with
> > > strftime and the 'ahistorical' tests. Here I haven't delved as deep.
> > >
> > > Currently I lean towards skipping the tests. Would you be terribly
> > > opposed to that?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Karl
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > indeed, a new cut of the GNU findutils is overdue: we have already 187
> > commits since v4.6.0 which was released around Xmas 2015.
> > I have a few things open on my side, but then need to find some time to do
> > the release together with James.
> >
> > Re. the tests: in that situation, I'd try to skip the gnulib tests,
> > and only let the find/xargs tests run.  Or you can try with a new snapshot
> > tarball created with './bootstrap && ./configure && make all dist' from a
> > git clone.
> ... or just pick the upstream commit(s) to make the test-suite pass again,
> as we do in Fedora:
>
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/findutils.git/commit?id=3f5b9b5d
>
> Kamil
>
> > Have a nice day,
> > Berny