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

[Khem Raj]

-Khem

On Aug 22, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Radu Moisan <radu.moisan at intel.com> wrote:

> 
> On 08/22/2012 05:08 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
>> 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?
> I really don't know the answer to your question. The patch was intended to provide minimally invasive change to the original file. If you elaborate more on your proposal, I would gladly take into consideration a future patch to address this issue.


Add CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS in the recipe search in metadata for existing examples

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