Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils CVS repository is now on-line

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Dave!

"John David Anglin" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've just written a cheap-o, checked-in as README-cvs-timestamps.
>> It's probably buggy and incomplete, but might work for you.
>> I've also just cvs-removed it, to discourage its use.
>
> Thanks.  After I wrote, I installed private copies of the latest versions
> of autoconf and automake.  However, I still have a number of problems
> with yesterdays cvs:
>
> 1) There were two problems building on hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20.  The
>    compilation of stat.c failed because STRUCT_STATVFS was defined
>    to `struct statvfs' but sys/vfs.h was included instead of
>    sys/statvfs.h.  There was also an error running the perl
>    script extract-magic using perl 5.005_03.  I enclose the hacks
>    which I made to work around these problems below.  The perl fix
>    probably isn't correct but it seemed to work.  The file fs.h
>    probably got rebuilt because of a timestamp problem.

Thank you!
I've applied your patch to the extract-magic script.
I haven't decided yet what to do about the STRUCT_STATVFS problem.

> 2) On vax-dec-ultrix4.3 (I wanted to see if the stat.c fix worked),
>    I hit the error:
>
>    cd .. && /bin/sh /xxx/gnu/coreutils-5.0.1/config/missing --run aclocal-1.7 
> -I m4
>    aclocal: macro `AM_STDBOOL_H' required but not defined
>    make: *** [../aclocal.m4] Error 1

It's in coreutils/m4/stdbool.m4 (from gnulib).
It might be that the version in coreutils was outdated
back when you tried that?

>    Automake 1.7.5 doesn't seem to define AM_STDBOOL_H.  Which package
>    provides this automake macro?