[OE-core] [PATCH] coreutils: Upgrade to upstream version 8.17

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Radu Moisan <radu.moisan at intel.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.17/realpath-works-yes.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.17/realpath-works-yes.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..e32f612
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.17/realpath-works-yes.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> +Signed-off-by: Radu Moisan <radu.moisan at intel.com>
> +Upstream status: pending
> +
> +The new version of coreutils, adds use of canonicalize_file_name() function defined in canonicalize.h
> +The problem: the function is redefined to rpl_canonicalize_file_name by means of a macro,which gives
> +an undefined reference error at compile time. Macro definition depends in the end on
> +gl_cv_func_realpath_works but assumed true only when set to "yes"
> +
> +Index: coreutils-8.17/m4/canonicalize.m4
> +===================================================================
> +--- coreutils-8.17.orig/m4/canonicalize.m4     2012-05-08 12:05:23.000000000 +0300
> ++++ coreutils-8.17/m4/canonicalize.m4  2012-08-17 14:20:22.000000000 +0300
> +@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
> +      [gl_cv_func_realpath_works=no],
> +      [case "$host_os" in
> +                 # Guess yes on glibc systems.
> +-        *-gnu*) gl_cv_func_realpath_works="guessing yes" ;;
> ++        *-gnu*) gl_cv_func_realpath_works="yes" ;;
> +                 # If we don't know, assume the worst.
> +         *)      gl_cv_func_realpath_works="guessing no" ;;
> +       esac

Wouldn't it be better to provide a cached test result in the site
files for this test, rather than relying on a host_os based guess?
-- 
Christopher Larson