mark obsolete usage of fold

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Sun Dec 11 18:55:32 UTC 2005


On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Sunday 11 December 2005 05:22, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > (For example, linking busybox against uClibc
> > > right now, "tar xvjfC file.tgz directory ." doesn't work because the
> > > argument that "f" gets isn't "file.tgz", it's "C".  This is a uClibc bug,
> > > but it hits us.)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Which bug is that? Can you tell something more concrete? I have a similar
> > case w/ interpretion of rpm's options where the order is relevant.
> >
> > Thanks, Peter
> 
> It's another one that I can reproduce if I set up the appropraite environment, 
> and I intend to debug after 1.1 ships.
> 
> I reported it to the uClibc mailing list to see if it was something they could 
> fix easily, and they refused to discuss it until I wrote a reproduction test 
> case for their test suite.  I'll get back to them when I have time to track 
> it down myself and come up with a patch.  (For the bug, not their test suite.  
> It hasn't been this week...)
> 
> There are several bugs I only see linked against uClibc 0.9.28.  The mount 
> error message being wrong is another one (which I think is actually a busybox 
> problem using memory after free, but the symptom only reproduces under 
> uClibc...)
> 
> Rob

do you refer maybe to not supporting *-progname (something w/ short, 
can't recall now), so that gnu testsuites fail due to different errors?

Peter

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