Status on coreutils?

[Mark Blackburn]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:12:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>>On Apr  2 08:02, Mark Blackburn wrote:
>>
>>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>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
>>>$ 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
>>
>>That only happens on the second call?
>>
>>
>>>$ ./chgrp.exe --version
>>>chgrp (coreutils) 5.2.0
>>>Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
>>
>>Hmm, my coretutils is somewhat older, version 5.0.  The code review must
>>have happened between 5.0 and 5.2.
>>
>>What's the actual reason that that happens?
> 
> 
> Looks like a getopt "problem" to me.
> 
> Hmm.  Maybe if we wait long enough a snapshot will solve the problem!

As reported here http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01368.html a snapshot does 
fix the problem.

> 
> So, Corinna just relax.
> 
> cgf


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