build: kill(1), uptime(1): don't install by default

* build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh: kill and uptime are not installed
by arch, debian, fedora, suse at least, so add to disabled list.
Fixes https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/132
* NEWS: Mention the build change.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ed33d27aa84de97f0772275bf1c7c6bbdabb81ed..019451d32e205212894b4f3033560b9fea8bf6c3 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   csplit, ls, and sort, now handle a more complete set of terminating signals.
 
+** Build-related
+
+  'kill' and 'uptime' are no longer built by default.  These programs can be
+  built with the --enable-install-program=kill,uptime configure option.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 9.9 (2025-11-10) [stable]
 

diff --git a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
index 454eba0aa4893faed4b35d2fa69f18503986ce60..1892b1aebee696e5b27892bcf5eed27043478c78 100755 (executable)
--- a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
+++ b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ disabled_by_default_progs='
     arch
     coreutils
     hostname
+    kill
+    uptime
 '
 
 # Programs that can be built only when certain requisite system
@@ -76,7 +78,6 @@ normal_progs='
     head
     id
     join
-    kill
     link
     ln
     logname
@@ -131,7 +132,6 @@ normal_progs='
     unexpand
     uniq
     unlink
-    uptime
     vdir
     wc
     whoami