From 08701d38a4c4e746e79132651c4577a6c03b02f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1993 13:00:24 +0000 Subject: merge with 3.8 --- old/fileutils/ChangeLog | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ old/fileutils/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) (limited to 'old') diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog index f59a9cbfa..e8b4215cd 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,28 @@ +Thu May 27 00:03:51 1993 Jim Meyering (meyering@comco.com) + + * Version 3.8. + + * configure.in (STAT_OSF1): Reference the statfs f_fsize member + so that configure defines STAT_OSF1 only if there is such a member. + Without such a reference, a Pyramid MIServer running OSx 5.1 + improperly defined STAT_OSF1 instead of the one it needed: + STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE. + +Wed May 26 00:57:46 1993 Jim Meyering (meyering@comco.com) + + * ls.h, ls-ls.c ls-dir.c, ls-vdir.c: New files that define or + simply set the new global variable ls_mode. ls_mode defines whether + the executable built from ls.o should act like ls, dir, or vdir. + * ls.c (decode_switches): Use the variable instead of #ifdefs. + This is modelled after the approach used in GNU binutils 2.x for + ar and ranlib. Here we avoid two rudundant compilations. + + * install.c (change_attributes, copy_file, install_file_in_file): + Don't call chown if we can efficiently determine that doing so is + unnecessary. On some systems, calls to chown (even with your own + uid and gid) fail unless made by root. On such systems install + got spurious failures. + Sat May 22 02:13:12 1993 Jim Meyering (meyering@comco.com) * Version 3.6. diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 487e1d165..4b71f42e6 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +Major changes in release 3.8: +* install isn't as likely to produce spurious errors +* avoid redundant compilations for `dir' and `vdir'; +* configure properly defines STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE on a Pyramid MIServer + running OSx 5.1 + +Major changes in release 3.7: +* none Major changes in release 3.6: * `ln -s dir_pathname .' works when the pathname has a trailing slash * with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf