> On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 16:19 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > > > Building GNU make 4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, produces one failing test:
On filesystems which don't populate dirent::d_type (or on old glibc) test 7
also fails.
I just asked gnulib mailing list to look at a patch.
https://lists.gnu.org/arch
On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 16:19 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > > Building GNU make 4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, produces one failing test:
> >
> > This is because the glob() function in the older GNU libc has a bug
> > related to handling symlinks correctly.
>
> Gnulib provides a workaround aga
Hi Paul,
> > Building GNU make 4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, produces one failing test:
>
> This is because the glob() function in the older GNU libc has a bug
> related to handling symlinks correctly.
Gnulib provides a workaround against this bug in its 'glob' module [1].
But GNU make ships a copy of gl
On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 15:33 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Building GNU make 4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, produces one failing test:
This is because the glob() function in the older GNU libc has a bug
related to handling symlinks correctly.
Hi,
Building GNU make 4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, produces one failing test:
$ ./configure --prefix=/arch/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnu-inst-make/4.3
$ make
$ make check
...
functions/wildcard .. FAILED (9/10 passed)
...
vms/library
