I do have GNU coreutils, correct. But a recent version. I "only" have them because I was having trouble tracking down something else. (en route to gcc/make check) I probably don't need them.
> I usually try to test system tools only. Similarly I try to build/install the minimum, but.. % type cp cp is a tracked alias for /home/jayk/bin/cp % cp --version cp (GNU coreutils) 8.5 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. Now I have to figure out what to delete? And hope everything else keeps working? Thanks, later, - Jay ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:12:25 +0200 > From: ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de > To: jay.kr...@cornell.edu > CC: stefano.lattar...@gmail.com; bug-automake@gnu.org > Subject: Re: automake-1.11.1 test results on old OSF/1 > > Hello Jay, > > * Jay K wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:34:50PM CEST: > > => http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/testlogs.tar.gz > > Thanks. You have GNU coreutils in your $HOME/bin I bet, but it looks > like it's a fairly old version; no non-GNU cp uses `quoting' in its > error reporting, and coreutils seems to have changed the output format > around 10 years ago. Any chance you could update? > Or it's the shell or make that mess it all up. > > > Note: this is old even for OSF/1, being 5.1, not 5.1a, 5.1b, 5.1f, etc. > > My last testing of some git Automake on OSF 5.1 had only two (different) > failures, and I usually try to test system tools only. > > Cheers, > Ralf > > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jayk/obj/automake/tests' > > make check-TESTS > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jayk/obj/automake/tests' > > Stack overflow: pid 14948, proc ksh, addr 0x11dffffe0, pc 0x3ff801bbf28 > > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jayk/obj/automake/tests' > > > > > > FAIL: distdir.test > > FAIL: extra5.test > > FAIL: extra6.test > > FAIL: extra7.test > > FAIL: fn99.test > > FAIL: fn99subdir.test > > FAIL: nobase-libtool.test > >
