From unknown Wed Jun 25 02:07:12 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#8423 <8423@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#8423 <8423@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: Questions about checking out 6.7 using git Reply-To: bug#8423 <8423@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:07:12 +0000 retitle 8423 Questions about checking out 6.7 using git reassign 8423 coreutils submitter 8423 Kai Yu severity 8423 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Apr 04 12:18:22 2011 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Apr 2011 16:18:22 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6mTu-0005RB-0r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:18:22 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6lyb-0004iU-Gp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:46:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6lyV-0006L2-G4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:45:56 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, T_DKIM_INVALID, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]:48157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6lyV-0006Jd-69 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:45:55 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34693 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6lYJ-0005Yb-U1 for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:18:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6lGy-0001j0-QY for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:00:58 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:62991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6lGy-0001ik-O7 for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:00:56 -0400 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so4489940qyk.0 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:00:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=rIcI43Tjzwc6Pt5YZ66PG9yhggMbdjKq5cg8gk6U1mE=; b=coW/iaNOEXoMYzMAjcPBESSEfNIDgMlgQkRh9OInrxcIcHzx/BTsAU7AV/Gd+vLNzo D5s9XMlbVlDChKe48jwxzG7XFUn5ZGKsRXLfx60clPb0qj6IZu6tncpzNy7Miq3wSyfX xCCQAUcQV3fB5gPng2OL5cxWdFYGbC/iDGHV8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type; b=ZtKsqLsErH8nuuC/vADkUzhF/gE6MtIigPu9bIyukP1EkeE2kgFbzvd1hXIjugn1An pMcHjs3ib1r3qBCRFq+uBJZSg2rv6thS7lFQYhedsZP/Vo+ac1SaOEWOU1L8vt1Yl41r yHWBL+yuLCVAvaxSN9lTMaET4eGtzs/A9d1Pg= Received: by 10.229.55.17 with SMTP id s17mr5853176qcg.70.1301929256174; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:00:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.181.81 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:00:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Kai Yu Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 23:00:36 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: rp9wsOJrzkYsiIU8OppZi9pFD8g Message-ID: Subject: Questions about checking out 6.7 using git To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 199.232.76.165 X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:18:21 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Hi, I'm currently investigating how to fight software regressions with git bisect. I git clone coreutils and type "git checkout COREUTILS-6_7" to switch to the version 6.7. After type "./bootstrap", an error arises: ln: creating symbolic link `lib/uniwidth/cjk.h': No such file or directory By looking into commit history, I found this problem was solved by this commit, which modifies bootstrap: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=e7368caf47c9bcdd853f1f9dac4382935d4caa6f After modification and run './bootstrap' again, the above error disappears. Then I type "./configure" and it is OK. However, when use "make" to complie the package, another error arises: sed: read error on ../.: Is a directory make[1]: *** [inttypes.h] Error 4 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/coreutils/lib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Could anybody tell me how to check out and compile coreutils-6.7 by using git? I would appreciate any replies on this issue, thank you. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Apr 17 02:34:13 2011 Received: (at 8423) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Apr 2011 06:34:13 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBLYj-0004np-9I for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:34:13 -0400 Received: from mx.meyering.net ([82.230.74.64]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBLYh-0004nM-Td for 8423@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:34:12 -0400 Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id 358CD6012A; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:34:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Jim Meyering To: 8423@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: Questions about checking out 6.7 using git Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:34:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87vcydfkti.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Lines: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 8423 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) tags 8423 notabug close 8423 thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Apr 17 03:18:57 2011 Received: (at 8423) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Apr 2011 07:18:57 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBMG1-0005np-Gk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:18:57 -0400 Received: from c-67-162-90-113.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([67.162.90.113] helo=kosh.dhis.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBMFz-0005ne-9m for 8423@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:18:55 -0400 Received: (qmail 17096 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Apr 2011 07:18:49 -0000 Message-ID: <20110417071849.17095.qmail@kosh.dhis.org> From: "Alan Curry" Subject: Re: bug#8423: Questions about checking out 6.7 using git To: jim@meyering.net (Jim Meyering) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:18:49 -0500 (GMT+5) In-Reply-To: <87vcydfkti.fsf@rho.meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 8423 Cc: 8423@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) Jim Meyering writes: > > tags 8423 notabug > close 8423 > thanks That's disappointing. I was looking forward to seeing a response to this question. I also recently tried to find the origin of a bug with git bisect and quickly ended up with an uncompilable mess. If you want to see a complete demonstration, I could make another attempt and log it all. But if you're trying to tell us that checking out old versions from the repository and compiling them shouldn't be expected to work... then you're wrong. -- Alan Curry From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Apr 17 04:28:12 2011 Received: (at 8423) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Apr 2011 08:28:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBNL1-0007H7-Rh for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:28:12 -0400 Received: from mx.meyering.net ([82.230.74.64]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBNKl-0007GQ-B7 for 8423@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:28:10 -0400 Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id 2F4106012A; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:27:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Jim Meyering To: "Alan Curry" Subject: Re: bug#8423: Questions about checking out 6.7 using git In-Reply-To: <20110417071849.17095.qmail@kosh.dhis.org> (Alan Curry's message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:18:49 -0500 (GMT+5)") References: <20110417071849.17095.qmail@kosh.dhis.org> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:27:48 +0200 Message-ID: <877hatffjv.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Lines: 39 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -3.9 (---) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 8423 Cc: 8423@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Alan Curry wrote: > Jim Meyering writes: >> >> tags 8423 notabug >> close 8423 >> thanks > > That's disappointing. I was looking forward to seeing a response to this > question. I also recently tried to find the origin of a bug with git bise= ct > and quickly ended up with an uncompilable mess. > > If you want to see a complete demonstration, I could make another attempt= and > log it all. But if you're trying to tell us that checking out old versions > from the repository and compiling them shouldn't be expected to work... t= hen > you're wrong. Thanks for pointing that out. I should have explained here. This user posted the same request to at least two other mailing lists and there was a fine response on at least one of those others. Here's some explanation and an outline: coreutils-6.7 was released on 2006-12-08, which was before we had a gnulib git submodule. Actually, that was back when bootstrap would pull the gnulib sources via cvs. coreutils itself had switched to git only two months before. Hence, without a submodule, and with no other record of which gnulib commit was used, you'll have to resort to dates to find approximately which gnulib was used. Or compare with the release tarball. Since cvs access to gnulib may not do what you want, I suggest using a ../gnulib directory. You'd git-reset it to a commit from the date corresponding to 6.7 and then reference ../gnulib via the GNULIB_SRCDIR=3D../gnulib envvar setting that bootstrap uses. From=20there on, you'll just have to debug problems as you find them. There is no general recipe. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Jul 24 10:39:36 2011 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Jul 2011 14:39:36 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QkzqB-0007Z4-Tz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:39:36 -0400 Received: from mx.meyering.net ([82.230.74.64]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkzq9-0007Ys-FC for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:39:33 -0400 Received: from rho.meyering.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister) with ESMTP id C4F656003D for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:39:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Jim Meyering To: control@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: close for real Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:39:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87k4b79200.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Lines: 2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -6.1 (------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -6.1 (------) close 8423 thanks From unknown Wed Jun 25 02:07:12 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. 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