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

[Jim Meyering]

Sam Sirlin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks very much for coreutils. 5.95 builds fine, however 5.96 does
> not. Note that runing autoconf solves the problem (configure again,
> make now works, though the color ls test fails...).
>
> On solaris sparc,
>
> (before running autoconf)
> ...
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> ./config.status: ./.deps/__fpending.Po: No such file or directory
...

Thanks for the report.
Can you provide more details, like which version of solaris?
What command did you use to build, e.g., ./configure ... ?

I've Cc'd address@hidden, since it sounds like this is due to my using
a recent test release of autoconf to build configure for coreutils-5.96.