Re: Bug: textutils-2.1 break, if you "touch" it

[Jim Meyering]

Nitin Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:
> I downloaded textutils-2.1.tar.gz from gnu website.
>
> I was trying to build textutils for our processor. I saved textutils
> under CVS source control (which apparently changed the timestamps of

textutils-2.1 is getting old.
You're not the first to make the mistake of getting/using it.[*]
I suggest that you use the coreutils, not the textutils.

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.90.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)

The latest sources are available via CVS here:

  http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/

If you need to check things into your own repository, or otherwise
change timestamps, then you should to get recent versions of tools
like autoconf, automake, and bison.

Jim

[*] There is still at least one GNU web page

   http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/textutils.html

that describes the textutils without mentioning that
that package has been superseded by the coreutils.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet found out how to update that page.