coreutils refresh request (again)

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wed Jun 10 18:24:15 GMT 2020


> but it is missing the patch used to adapt it to Cygwin.
> The patch modifies 27 files and unfortunately does not applies
> clean to latest upstream source.

Fair enough (and again, there was no pushing);  but are you sure that all 27 patches are still actual?

Testsuite ran pretty well, though.  I looked as some failures (not all), and they looked rather benign.

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.32
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 621
# PASS:  413
# SKIP:  167
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  33
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 8

> The are at lest 3 points that need rewriting

Okay;  maybe those should be reported upstream, as Cygwin is largely standard-compliant these days?



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