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Re: ready for a bug-fix coreutils-7.2?


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: ready for a bug-fix coreutils-7.2?
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:27:23 +0100

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I want to make a coreutils-7.2 release soon.
>>
>> There are still a few minor problems we haven't been able
>> to reproduce (like the install-related test failure), and
>> some portability problems, but there have been enough real
>> bug fixes,
>>
>>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/NEWS
>>
>> that I don't want to wait much longer.
>>
>> If you know of a bug or portability problem that hasn't
>> yet been addressed, please reply here.
>
> I just fired off builds of 7.1.49-ebb9 on ten platforms. Given that I
> think there is at least one non-c99 compiler in that mix, the results
> will probably be... interesting :-). (More-so because I expect
> failures due to 'make check' being run on a known-flaky NFS volume.)
>
> How badly do you want problems fixed before release? ;-) (And how

It depends, e.g., on how hard/invasive it would be to fix,
how common the offending build environment is, etc.

> would you like me to submit failure reports? One per platform?)

One per platform sounds fine.




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