coreutils-5.0.90 build feedback

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Most of the coreutils-5.0.90 builds succeeded in at least one
compilation environment on each system, but on most platforms, there
was this single test failure:

FAIL: remove
PASS: exact
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1 of 2 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
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There were build failures on some systems:

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FreeBSD 4.4, FreeBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.2, Apple MacOS X

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib 
-I/usr/local/include
-I/home/staff/computing/beebe/i386/local/include  -g -O2 -c `test -f 'nice.c' 
|| echo './'`nice.c
In file included from nice.c:28:
/usr/include/sys/resource.h:58: field `ru_utime' has incomplete type
/usr/include/sys/resource.h:59: field `ru_stime' has incomplete type
make[3]: *** [nice.o] Error 1

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Sun Solaris 2.8 (SPARC), Sun Solaris 2.9 (SPARC and Intel x86)
c89 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib 
-I/usr/local/include  -xO5 -dalign -xlibmil -xcg92 -xsafe=mem -c `test -f 
'date.c' || echo './'`date.c
"../lib/stdbool.h", line 39: warning: _Bool is a keyword in ISO C99
"../lib/stdbool.h", line 39: warning: _Bool is a keyword in ISO C99
"../lib/posixtm.h", line 10: warning: _Bool is a keyword in ISO C99
"../lib/timespec.h", line 39: (struct) tag redeclared: timespec
make[3]: Leaving directory `/local/build/coreutils-5.0.90/src'
"date.c", line 414: warning: _Bool is a keyword in ISO C99
c89: acomp failed for date.c

CC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I. 
-I/usr/local/include  -xO5 -dalign -xlibmil -xcg92 -xsafe=mem -c `test -f 
'getdate.c' || echo './'`getdate.c
"getdate.c", line 1141: Error: Too many arguments in call to "yylex()".
"getdate.c", line 1696: Error: Too many arguments in call to "yyerror()".
"getdate.c", line 1795: Error: Too many arguments in call to "yyerror()".
"getdate.y", line 1124: Error: The function yyerror() has not had a body 
defined.
"getdate.y", line 1124: Error: The function yylex() has not had a body defined.
5 Error(s) detected.

[NB: That was a C++ compilation attempt]


if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I.   -g 
-O2 -MT getdate.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/getdate.Tpo" \
  -c -o getdate.o `test -f 'getdate.c' || echo './'`getdate.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/getdate.Tpo" ".deps/getdate.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/getdate.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
getdate.y: In function `int yyparse(void*)':
getdate.y:160: error: too many arguments to function `int yylex()'
getdate.c:1141: error: at this point in file
getdate.y:159: error: too many arguments to function `int yyerror()'
getdate.c:1696: error: at this point in file
getdate.y:159: error: too many arguments to function `int yyerror()'
getdate.c:1795: error: at this point in file
getdate.y: At global scope:
getdate.y:873: error: syntax error before `__attribute__'
getdate.y: In function `time_t get_date(const char*, const time_t*)':
getdate.y:949: error: type mismatch with previous external decl
/usr/include/time.h:132: error: previous external decl of `char*tzname[2]'

[Another C++ compilation attempt.]

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GNU/Linux Red Hat 8 Intel x86

icc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib 
-I/usr/local/include  -g -c `test -f 'stat.c' || echo './'`stat.c
/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(27): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_type;
      ^

/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(28): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_bsize;
      ^

/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(43): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_namelen;
      ^

/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(44): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[6];
      ^

/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(50): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_type;
      ^

/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(51): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_bsize;
      ^

/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(58): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_namelen;
      ^

/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(59): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[6];
      ^

compilation aborted for stat.c (code 2)

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