Re: coreutils-6.0 on BeOS (1)

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> On BeOS 5, building coreutils shows, apart from the c89-c99 and the gzip 
> --help
> issue (which have already been handled), a number of minor compilation 
> failures.
...
> a "make check" attempts to builds the programs
>   chroot - and fails because BeOS has no chroot() function,
>   df - that compiles,
...
>   nice - fails because BeOS has no nice() or getpriority() function,
>   su - that compiles but is pointless,
>   pinky, uptime, users, who - fail because BeOS has no <utmp.h> nor <utmpx.h>.
>
> The 'check' target depends on 'check-AUTHORS'.
> 'check-AUTHORS' depends on $(all_programs).
> $(all_programs) includes $(EXTRA_PROGRAMS).

Hi Bruno,
Thanks for the report and patch.
I've moved that rule to "make distcheck" instead:

2006-08-22  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        Move the check-AUTHORS rule to be run as part of "make distcheck",
        rather than "make check".
        * src/Makefile.am (check): Don't depend on check-AUTHORS; it would
        cause "make check" to fail on systems unable to build all binaries.
        * Makefile.maint (check-AUTHORS): New rule.
        (local-checks-available): Add it here.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.  Needed for BeOS.

Index: src/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/src/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.71
diff -u -r1.71 Makefile.am
--- src/Makefile.am     8 Aug 2006 22:19:03 -0000       1.71
+++ src/Makefile.am     22 Aug 2006 09:47:09 -0000
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
 pr = progs-readme
 # Ensure that the list of programs in README matches the list
 # of programs we can build.
-check: check-README check-misc check-AUTHORS
+check: check-README check-misc
 .PHONY: check-README
 check-README:
        rm -rf $(pr) $(pm)
Index: Makefile.maint
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/Makefile.maint,v
retrieving revision 1.245
diff -u -r1.245 Makefile.maint
--- Makefile.maint      17 Aug 2006 10:03:05 -0000      1.245
+++ Makefile.maint      22 Aug 2006 09:48:43 -0000
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
   po-check copyright-check writable-files m4-check author_mark_check \
   changelog-check patch-check strftime-check $(syntax-check-rules) \
   makefile_path_separator_check \
-  makefile-check
+  makefile-check check-AUTHORS
 .PHONY: $(local-checks-available)
 
 local-check = $(filter-out $(local-checks-to-skip), $(local-checks-available))
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@
          rm -f address@hidden address@hidden;                                  
        \
        fi
 
+check-AUTHORS:
+       $(MAKE) -C src $@
+
 # Ensure that we use only the standard $(VAR) notation,
 # not @...@ in Makefile.am, now that we can rely on automake
 # to emit a definition for each substituted variable.