Status on coreutils?

[Mark Blackburn]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  1 15:18, Mark Blackburn wrote:
> 
>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>Ask Mark what's the problem.  He was already as far as removing
>>>su, kill and uptime from the binary package but then...
>>>
>>>
>>>Corinna
>>>
>>
>>I was trying to get make check to finish completely but it looks like it 
>>will take more time than it's worth. One problem it has is with the present 
>>version of cygwin (1.5.9) recursive commands don't work (ie chgrp -R). That 
> 
> 
> Huh?  What should be the reason for this?  The recursive commands from
> fileutils are runnning fine under 1.5.9.  And I have a local build of
> coreutils which also doesn't have problems under 1.5.9.
> 
> Corinna
> 

fileutils is irrelevent because the recursion code was overhauled (the 
bds fts library is used). My local build of coreutils gives me problems 
for chgrp -R, I'm assuming there are problems with other commands:

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
$ ls -l d
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+   2 mark     Users           0 Mar 26 18:14 d/

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
$ chgrp.exe -R None d

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
$ ./chgrp.exe -R None d
./chgrp: `d': No such file or directory

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
$ chgrp.exe --version
chgrp (fileutils) 4.1
Written by David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
$ ./chgrp.exe --version
chgrp (coreutils) 5.2.0
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 althor 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05 i686 unknown 
unknown Cygwin

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
$

Mark Blackburn