[Coreutils-announce] coreutils-4.5.3 released

[Jim Meyering]

This is mainly a bug-fix release.  I've also been addressing
some of the new warnings reported by gcc snapshots.  More of
those remain.

Thanks to Andreas Schwab and Dmitry V. Levin for this week's
notable bug fixes.  Thanks to Paul Eggert for catching/fixing
the mistakes I made in cat.c and sort.c for 4.5.2.

[ It looks like the sourceforge (sf.net) URLs below don't work right now. ]

Here are the tarballs:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz   (5.4 MB)
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.bz2  (3.5 MB)
  http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz   (5.4 MB)
  http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.bz2  (3.5 MB)

And here are xdelta-style diffs

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.2-4.5.3.xdelta   (256 KB)
  http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-4.5.2-4.5.3.xdelta   (256 KB)

Here are GPG detached signatures:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.bz2.sig
  http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz.sig
  http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.bz2.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:

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6faa731555aa7c9a41f96c2fb256dbc6  coreutils-4.5.2-4.5.3.xdelta
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NEWS:
* du --dereference-args (-D) no longer fails in certain cases
* `ln --target-dir=DIR' no longer fails when given a single argument

ChangeLog entries:

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ChangeLog       13 Oct 2002 14:02:50 -0000      1.95
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2002-10-13  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * Version 4.5.3.

        * src/du.c (usage): Tweak description of --dereference-args/-D.

        * src/du.c (count_entry): Also save cwd when dereferencing (via
        --dereference-args, -D) a command-line argument.
        Reported by Michal Svec.  Based on a patch by Andreas Schwab.

        * src/Makefile.am (../AUTHORS): New target/rule.

2002-10-12  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/paste.c (paste_parallel): Declare local, `delims_saved', to be
        of type size_t, since that's the way it's used and avoids a warning.

        * src/csplit.c (struct cstring) [len]: Declare to be unsigned int,
        since that's how it's always used and avoids a new warning from gcc.
        (read_input): Adapt to new safe_read ABI.

        * src/cut.c (cut_fields): Add a temporary size_t variable, n_bytes,
        to avoid warnings.

        * src/pinky.c (print_long_entry): fread returns size_t.
        Declare local `bytes' accordingly, to avoid warning.

        tail -c +N would perform an extra read after encountering EOF
        [this change is analogous (bytes vs. lines) to the one of 2002-01-27]
        * src/tail.c (start_bytes): Detect EOF, inform caller.
        (tail_bytes): Upon EOF in start_bytes, return immediately.
        (file_lines): Reorganize to use memrchr rather than an explicit loop.
        Adapt to new safe_read ABI.

2002-10-11  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * tests/du/deref: New file/test, for the above fix.
        * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add deref.

2002-10-10  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * tests/ln/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add target-1.
        * tests/ln/target-1: New file/test, for the fix on 2002-10-08.

2002-10-09  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * tests/cp/backup-is-src: Ensure that certain environment variables
        are not set (e.g., SIMPLA_BACKUP_SUFFIX).  Reported by Duncan Roe.

        * tests/tail-2/big-4gb: Mark this as an expensive test; it would
        consume 4GB of disk space on systems without support for sparse files.
        Fix a logic error that'd make it `cat err' even though dd didn't fail.

        * src/dircolors.hin (.jar): Fix typo: s/;3$/;31/.
        Patch by address@hidden, forwarded by Michael Stone.

        * tests/ls/dired: Ensure that ls produces English messages.
        Patch by Alexey Vyskubov, forwarded by Michael Stone.

2002-10-08  Dmitry V. Levin  <address@hidden>

        * src/ln.c (main): Fix target_directory parsing when n_files == 1.

2002-10-08  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * tests/tail-2/big-4gb: Use double quotes around diagnostic.
        Fix syntax in test: use =, not ==.
        Reported by Bob Proulx.
        Change all the rest like this: grep -lR "testing framework'" .\
        |xargs perl -pi -e 's/'\''(\$0: failure in testing framework)'\''/"$1"/'

        * src/sum.c (sysv_sum_file): Adapt to new safe_read ABI.
        * src/tr.c (squeeze_filter, read_and_delete, read_and_xlate): Likewise.
        * src/tac.c (save_stdin, tac_stdin_to_mem): Likewise.
        * src/wc.c (wc): Likewise.

2002-10-07  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * src/cat.c (cat):
        Don't advance the write pointer past the end of the write buffer.
        * src/sort.c (begfield, limfield): Likewise.

2002-10-07  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/cat.c (simple_cat, cat): Adapt to new safe_read ABI.
        * src/head.c (head_bytes, head_lines): Likewise.

2002-10-06  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/dd.c (scanargs): Ensure that specified block sizes (specified
        via ibs=N, obs=N, and bs=N) are no larger than SSIZE_MAX.
        (skip, dd_copy): Adapt to new safe_read ABI.

        * Makefile.maint (signatures): Define.
        (%.sig): New rule.
        (announcement): Depend on $(signatures).

        * Makefile.maint (announcement): Output all URLs for detached
        signatures, not just the last one from the previous loop.


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lib/ChangeLog   13 Oct 2002 12:23:29 -0000      1.381
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2002-10-13  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * xnanosleep.c (initialized): Remove declaration now that it's unused.

2002-10-12  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * xnanosleep.c: There's no need to futz with the rounding mode,
        since the code should work properly even in the default rounding mode.
        (<fenv.h>): Do not include.
        (#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON): Remove.
        (xnanosleep): Don't futz with rounding state.

2002-10-06  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * safe-read.c (safe_read): Change type of function
        from ssize_t to size_t.
        * safe-read.h: Update prototype.


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m4/ChangeLog    13 Oct 2002 12:20:44 -0000      1.433
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2002-10-12  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_HEADERS): Remove fenv.h.

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