coreutils-4.5.11 released (this may become coreutils-5.0)

[Jim Meyering]

This is yet another bug-fix-only release.
There is a chance that I will relabel this as coreutils-5.0
early next week.  Otherwise, I'll make one more test release,
and then do the relabel.

Please build and test this on as many different systems as you can.

Thanks to all of you who have been helping!

Jim


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NEWS

[4.5.11]
* seq no longer requires that a field width be specified
* seq no longer fails when given a field width of `0'
* seq now accepts ` ' and `'' as valid format flag characters
* df now shows a HOSTNAME: prefix for each remote-mounted file system on AIX 5.1
* portability tweaks for HP-UX, AIX 5.1, DJGPP

ChangeLog entries:

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2003-03-20  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * Version 4.5.11.

        * src/seq.c (valid_format): Also accept ` ' and `'' as valid
        format flag characters.
        Do not require that a field width be specified.
        Do not fail when given a field width of `0'.
        Reported by Dan Jacobson.
        * tests/seq/basic: Add new tests for the above-fixed bug.

        * src/Makefile.am (all-local): Append $(EXEEXT) to use of `su'
        (install-root): Likewise.
        (install-exec-local): Likewise.
        Based on a patch from Richard Dawe.

2003-03-19  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use $(LN_S) instead of 'ln -s',
        because the DJGPP 2.03 port of 'ln -s' doesn't work.
        Include $(EXEEXT) in program names.
        Since $(LN_S) may degenerate to `cp -p', be careful
        to invoke it from the destination directory.
        Mostly from Richard Dawe.
        * configure.ac: Use AC_PROG_LN_S.

        * tests/mv/part-symlink: Unset CDPATH.  Otherwise, having the
        CDPATH shell variable set could cause this test to fail.
        Reported by Karl Berry.

2003-03-18  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/fmt.c [struct Word] (paren, period, punct, final): Change the
        type of each member from bool <MEMBER>:1 to unsigned int <MEMBER>:1.
        AIX 5.1's xlc could not compile the former.
        Patch by Petter Reinholdtsen.  Also reported by Mike Jetzer.

2003-03-17  Richard Dawe  <address@hidden>

        * configure.ac: Include $(EXEEXT) in OPTIONAL_BIN_PROGS'
        program names, since automake only adds $(EXEEXT) to programs
        in its *_PROGRAMS.

2003-03-16  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/remove.c (rm): Put two local variables in static storage,
        so they can't be clobbered by the potential longjmp.

2003-03-15  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * Makefile.cfg (gnu_rel_host): Fix code to match the comment
        so that a version number with a two-digit component can still count
        as an alpha release.  Reported by Richard A Downing.
        (gnu_rel_host): Define in terms of $(RELEASE_TYPE) instead.

2003-03-14  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/ansi2knr.c: Remove no-longer-used file.
        * src/ansi2knr.1: Likewise.

        * Makefile.maint (prev_version_file): Don't use ?= for this particular
        assignment, since it causes trouble with old versions of GNU make
        (e.g. 3.76.1).  The other uses of `?=' are inoffensive.  Details here.
        http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/msg00028.html
        Patch from Alexandre Duret-Lutz.

        * Use patched automake-1.7.3.  Regenerate Makefile.in files in
        subdirectories so that each includes a definition of ACLOCAL_M4.

        * announce-gen (main): Label the compressed source URLs.

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2003-03-19  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        DJGPP doesn't have S_ISLNK, so provide a replacement.
        * ftw.c (S_IFMT): Define, if necessary.
        [STAT_MACROS_BROKEN]: Undefine S_ISLNK.
        (S_ISLNK): Define, if necessary.
        Based on a patch from Rich Dawe.

        * exclude.h (PARAMS): Remove definition and uses.
        * exclude.c: Remove uses of `PARAMS'.

        * fnmatch_.h: Don't define __const.
        (fnmatch): Use const, not __const in prototype.
        From Paul Eggert.

2003-03-17  Richard Dawe  <address@hidden>

        * fchdir-stub.c: New file: trivial stub for fchdir.

2003-03-18  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * mountlist.c (read_filesystem_list) [MOUNTED_VMOUNT]: Detect any
        error from mntctl.
        Use mntctl's return value to drive the entry-processing loop, since
        we can't rely on the value of the vmt_length member in the last
        entry.  On some systems doing so could result in exhausting
        virtual memory.  Based in part on a patch from Mike Jetzer.

        * quote.c (quote_n): Fix typo in comment.

2003-03-17  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * raise.c (raise): Rename from rpl_raise.
        Without that change, systems lacking raise (SunOS4) would not be
        able to link programs using raise.  Reported by Volker Borchert.

        * ftw.c (FTW_STAT): Rename from `STAT', to avoid conflict
        with STAT definition from <sys/dir.h> on AIX 5.1.
        Suggestion from Mike Jetzer and Petter Reinholdtsen.

        * fchown-stub.c (fchown): Put function type on its own line.
        * readlink-stub.c (readlink): Likewise.
        * lstat-stub.c (lstat): Likewise.

2003-03-14  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove definition --
        before it pointed to ../src/ansi2knr.  Some of these files
        have required an ANSI (c89) compiler for a year or two.
        (libfetish_a_SOURCES): Remove unused files: c-stack.c, c-stack.h.

2003-02-04  Dmitry V. Levin  <address@hidden>

        * stat.c: Include "xalloc.h".

2003-03-13  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        Merge changes from Bison.
        * obstack.h: (__INT_TO_PTR) [__STDC__]: Cast result to
        (void *) to avoid diagnostic with native c89 on SGI IRIX 6.5
        when compiling Bison 1.875's `bitset bset = obstack_alloc
        (bobstack, bytes);'.  Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe.

        * obstack.h (obstack_object_size): Declare temporary, __o,
        to be const, in order to avoid warnings.

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2003-03-19  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * ftw.m4 (AC_FUNC_FTW): Require AC_HEADER_STAT.

2003-03-17  Richard Dawe  <address@hidden>

        * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Include $(EXEEXT) in DF_PROG's program
        name, since automake only adds $(EXEEXT) to programs in its *_PROGRAMS.
        Arrange to compile the corresponding stub function if fchdir is missing.

2003-03-18  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * ls-mntd-fs.m4 (jm_LIST_MOUNTED_FILESYSTEMS): Move the MOUNTED_VMOUNT
        test to precede the MOUNTED_GETMNTENT1 tests, since otherwise, AIX 5.1
        systems would end up using the latter.  MOUNTED_GETMNTENT1 support
        is inadequate on such systems: 1) detecting whether a file system
        is remote doesn't work  2) the MOUNTED_VMOUNT code reports the
        HOSTNAME:/MOUNT_POINT, while the MOUNTED_GETMNTENT1 code reports
        merely /MOUNT_POINT.  Reported by Mike Jetzer.

2003-03-17  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * dirfd.m4 (UTILS_FUNC_DIRFD): Test the cache variable, not one
        that is guaranteed to be `no'.  Use `no_such_member' to indicate
        that condition, rather than `-1' which is slightly misleading.
        Change the name of the cache variable to have the gl_ prefix.
        Prompted by a patch from Richard Dawe for DJGPP.

2003-03-14  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ): Also forbid the gl_[A-Z] prefix.
        Don't require jm_PREREQ_C_STACK.

2003-03-13  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        [from gnulib]
        * onceonly.m4 (m4_quote): New macro.
        (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE):
        Quote AC_FOREACH variable-expansions properly.

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2003-03-18  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * POTFILES.in: Remove lib/c-stack.c.

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