Re: coreutils-5.96 doesn't build (out of the box)

[Sam Sirlin]

   Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:55:23 +0200
   From: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>

   * Sam Sirlin wrote on Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:20:04AM CEST:
   > 
   > Here's the full output of the bad configure (autoconf 2.59 produced a
   > working configure)

   I still have no idea what's going on in your case (and I guess the bug
   you observe is different from the one on AIX).  So I have a few further
   questions.

   What is
     /bin/bash --version
     echo $PATH
     type mkdir expr dirname basename

dirname is apparently the issue. I had an old dirname shell script
lying around from 1989 in my path (version 1.5). It worked well enough
for the old  2.59 configure, but not for the new one which seems to
use a new construction "dirname -- ..."

I moved away the shell script, so now gnu dirname is available, and
then the new configure works fine, and 5.96 builds, even passes most
tests. 

FAIL: symlink-slash

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1 of 21 tests failed
(3 tests were not run)


Sorry to bother you with a local environment problem. 
Thanks for the help,

Sam Sirlin
Email: address@hidden