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Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (includ


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:13:45 +0200

mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>> [let me see if gmane lets me reply to posts]
>
> gmane works great, it's the only way I read this list (and several
> others). :-)
>
> btw, thanks for the mails... I just built coreutils on Darwin also, and
> had a good number of 'make check' failures.

> I am also noticing that
> after making coreutils (and some other packages, I think bash was one),
> to remove the directory, I have to 'rm -rf coreutils-5.97' as many as
> four times before it fully goes away. Odd that just doing it several
> times in succession works, though.

Now, *that* is interesting.
Would you please see if you can reproduce that using an rm binary
built from coreutils-6.2?  I couldn't, when using an hfs partition
on Darwin 8.7.0.  The core of rm was seriously revamped between
coreutils-5.97 and 6.0.




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