coreutils refresh request (again)
Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 16:46:55 GMT 2020
On 10.06.2020 18:21, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
>> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-June/245104.html
>
> Wow dude! I did not expect a whole sob story out of that simple reminder;
> I did not urge anybody to do it right away, yet I just mentioned that the package
> was way out of its release cycle. I think that the time it took you to write
> all that response was pretty much comparable to the time required to package
> the new coreutils:
>
> $ ./configure
> ...
> $ time make
> ...
> real 6m33.420s
> user 4m10.671s
> sys 1m53.034s
>
> (and it builds just out of the box, FYI)
>
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.
The are at lest 3 points that need rewriting
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