Re: coreutils-8.12.178-df9cd on OSF/1 5.1

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible wrote:
>> On OSF/1 5.1:
>> Build error.
>
> "make" fails like this:
>
> Making all in src
> Make: bad lock name: base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown cksum
> comm cp csplit cut date dd dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand
> expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head id join kill link ln
> logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nl nproc nohup od paste
> pathchk pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir runcon seq
> sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort
> split stat sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate
> tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink vdir wc whoami yes.  Stop.
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.

Thanks for the report.
I think that's due to their make's interpretation of
this '['-related syntax: "[$(EXEEXT)".

IMHO, for OSF/1, it's not worth working around,
since things work fine with GNU make.

> Whereas "gmake" succeeds in building src/.
>
> Bruno