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Re: Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.4-1


On 03/18/2010 03:16 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 03/11/2010 10:18 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> For those people testing cygwin snapshots, a new release of coreutils,
>>> 8.4-1, has been uploaded.  7.0-2 remains current, because the 8.4-1
>>> release depends on features available only in recent snapshots (that is,
>>> don't upgraded if you are still using the current cygwin 1.7.1).
>>
>> Is no one else testing this?  I'm thinking I introduced a bug, because
>> 'mv a b' creates 'b.exe', even if 'a' did not have an implicit .exe, and
>> am looking into building 8.4-2 to fix it.
> 
> Sorry -- I had run into this problem, but didn't report it.  I was
> running some-random-self-built-snapshot of cygwin1.dll, so I wasn't sure
> if the problem was that my cygwin1.dll didn't have the correct changes,
> or if there was actually a problem in coreutils.  I meant to track it
> down and report it if the prob was in coreutils, but I forgot; sorry
> about that.

No problem.  Serves me right for not checking sooner; I was traveling
earlier this week, so today was the first time I really got to test my
own snapshot.  I think I found the bug, though, so expect
coreutils-8.4-2 later today.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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