There are several areas needing improvement:
1) add tests for hard links
2) add implementation for uncommon flags (-d, -L, -n, -P, -r)
3) align error messages more closely with GNU implementation
I switched over to the getopts crate on crates.io, instead of Rust's
private implementation. This will allow coreutils to build for Rust 1.0.
I'm splitting the updates into several commits for better reviewing.
This commit adds `cargo update` to the distclean target in the
makefile. This updates the Cargo.lock file when clearing the
deps directory.
In addition, it adds a faster implementation of the Sieve of
Eratosthenes for use by `src/factor/gen_table.rs` and `test/factor.rs`.
I created random data to test several cases. I verified that the data is
split into the correct number of files and can also be reassembled into
the original file.
This change does the following:
1. Updates the arithmetic functions in `src/factor/numeric.rs` to
correctly handle all cases up to 2^64. When numbers are larger
than 2^63, we fall back to slightly slower routines that check
for and handle overflow.
2. Since the arithmetic functions will now not overflow, we no longer
need the safety net trial division implementation. We now always
use Pollard's rho after eliminating small (<=13 bit) primes.
3. Slight tweak in `src/factor/gen_table.rs` to generate the first
1027 primes, which means we test every prime of 13 or fewer bits
before going into Pollard's rho. Includes corresponding update in
`src/factor/prime_table.rs` and the Makefile to reflect this.
4. Add a new test that generates random numbers with exclusively
large (14 to 50 bit) prime factors. This exercises the possible
overflow paths.
5. Add another new test that checks the `is_prime()` function against
a few dozen 64-bit primes. Again this is to exercise possible
overflow paths.
Add a test for `factor`.
This commit also pulls factor's Sieve implementation into its own module
so that the factor test can use it.
Finally, slight refactoring for clarity in gen_table.rs.
This commit builds upon @wikol's Pollard rho implementation.
It adds the following:
1. A generator for prime inverse tables. With these, we can do
very fast divisibility tests (a single multiply and comparison)
for small primes (presently, the first 1000 primes are in the
table, which means all numbers of ~26 bits or less can be
factored very quickly.
2. Always try prime inverse tables before jumping into Pollard's
rho method or using trial division.
3. Since we have eliminated all small factors by the time we're
done with the table division, only use slow trial division when
the number is big enough to cause overflow issues in Pollard's
rho, and jump out of trial division and into Pollard's rho as
soon as the number is small enough.
4. Updates the Makefile to regenerate the prime table if it's not
up-to-date.
This rule will test each program, ignore all output, and return pass or
fail depending on whether the test has errors. This is the equivalent of
"make build-check", but for tests.
This rule will build each program, ignore all output, and return pass or
fail depending on whether the build has errors. This is helpful for
finding out which programs need to be fixed when a new Rust nightly
build inevitably breaks everything.
In the normal case, one does, e.g.,
make TEST="cat" test
This means that the value of EXES in the Makefile contains all
possible targets, which means many prerequisites that aren't
required get built.
With this change, when the `test` target is in effect (and,
in particular, *only* the test target), then the value of
EXES is ignored when calculating dependencies. Otherwise,
the values of EXES and TESTS are both considered.
With this change, individual submodules can specify their dependencies with
an additional file called "deps.mk" in the subdir. When building, only
the dependencies that are necessary are built, using cargo, and then linked.
This greatly simplifies adding new dependencies: add the package in
deps/Cargo.toml, and add the appropriate line in "deps.mk" in the
src/utilname/ directory, and the dependency will be built automatically
as needed.
This also removes the need to use git submodules.
After building the serialize crate, the rlib was copied to the build
directory using a hyphen in the library name ('librustc-serialize').
It seems that Rust expects an underscore instead.
This patch begins the work of modernizing uutils to work with 1.0-ish
Rust. In particular, it
1. Updates to the latest submodules.
2. Convert mkmain.rs, mkuutils.rs, and src/uutils/uutils.rs
to new slice syntax and use of new io, fs, and path APIs.
3. Convert src/common/util.rs to new io, fs, and path APIs.
4. Convert fmt to use new APIs.
