Re: Some minor issues with 5.96

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> - Solaris 2.6 doesn't grok these lines:
>   | base64.1: $(common_dep)   $(srcdir)/base64.x      ../src/base64.c

Thanks for the testing and investigation.

>   in that ../src/base64.c isn't searched through VPATH.  Using GNU make
>   works.  Solaris 7 has this fixed.

I'm not too worried about portability to Solaris 2.6's make;
I see little downside to leaving this as-is.  Besides, isn't
it already documented that if you want a VPATH build to succeed,
you have to have GNU make?

> - Let's have `make check' be portable, so users can easily use it.
>   Patch below.

Applied, as noted separately.

> - On Solaris 7, I get one test failure:
>   (Is that due to a recent Autoconf glitch?)
>   | FAIL: ../../../coreutils-5.96/tests/cp/symlink-slash

Yes.  You can test the fix by applying the configure patch here:

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00142.html