Re: coreutils 5.95 on IRIX 5.3

[Paul Eggert]

Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:

> is this OK?
>
> lorenz 288% env VERBOSE=yes make TESTS=no-target-dir
> No suffix list.
> lorenz 289% env VERBOSE=yes /usr/local/pkg/bin/gmake TESTS=no-target-dir
> gmake: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> lorenz 290% pwd
> /var/tmp/coreutils-5.97/tests/mv

Sorry, I forgot the 'check' at the end.  Please try this:

cd tests/mv
env VERBOSE=yes make TESTS=no-target-dir check

> even after a reboot of the machine I cannot remove that directory.
> This loosely reminds me of the "folder from hell" phenomenon back in
> the 80s on then-current Macintoshes

If this is the case, it can't be solely coreutils's fault; there must
be something wrong with your file system or kernel or whatever.  And
you may not want to try testing this too much, if you keep making
"folders from hell".