mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [let me see if gmane lets me reply to posts] > > gmane works great, it's the only way I read this list (and several > others). :-) > > btw, thanks for the mails... I just built coreutils on Darwin also, and > had a good number of 'make check' failures.
> I am also noticing that > after making coreutils (and some other packages, I think bash was one), > to remove the directory, I have to 'rm -rf coreutils-5.97' as many as > four times before it fully goes away. Odd that just doing it several > times in succession works, though. Now, *that* is interesting. Would you please see if you can reproduce that using an rm binary built from coreutils-6.2? I couldn't, when using an hfs partition on Darwin 8.7.0. The core of rm was seriously revamped between coreutils-5.97 and 6.0.
