mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> 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. > > I plan to, as soon as I get a chance. FYI this was on an NFS mount so > there might be some weird interaction with the NFS driver... although > I've built coreutils 5.97 on almost a dozen platforms and Darwin (both > x86 and PowerPC as I recall) is the only OS that's given me problems.
I was unable to reproduce that. Tried both NFS and hfs. If you can, please give details asap. I expect to release coreutils-6.3 very soon. It'd be particularly useful to know how many files it removes at each iteration.
