Re: coreutils 5.95 on IRIX 5.3

[Paul Eggert]

Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:

> coreutils 5.95, unlike prior releases, seems to build relatively fine
> on IRIX 5.3.

Thanks for the bug report.

> FAIL: symlink-slash

Hmmm, what is the output of the following shell command?

        cd tests/cp
        VERBOSE=yes make TESTS=symlink-slash check

> - configure does not find /sbin/grep;

Is it important that 'configure' find /sbin/grep rather than
/usr/bin/grep or whatever?  If so, why?  Currently 'configure' walks
through PATH looking for a 'grep' that isn't broken.  Is the problem
that /sbin was not in your PATH, or that the grep test that
'configure' uses doesn't detect brokenness in other versions of 'grep'
on your system?

> - IRIX 5.3's sed does not like some syntax used by config.status:

Most likely this is due to some silly limit in IRIX 5.3 sed, which it
diagnoses incorrectly.  This is really an Autoconf issue, not a
coreutils issue (see, e.g.,
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00075.html>)
but a fix probably won't appear until after Autoconf 2.60 comes out.
In the meantime I suppose you can stick with your GNU sed workaround.