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Re: coreutils 6.3 on Tru64 - just plain broken, or...?
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: coreutils 6.3 on Tru64 - just plain broken, or...? |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:06:57 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-09-08) |
Hello Paul,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:12:09PM CEST:
> mwoehlke <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > shuf builds, but the linker complains about 'ftello unresolved', and
> > then *produces a file* (but without +x), with the result that 'make'
> > then thinks it has nothing to do to for target 'shuf' and continues on
> > to "success" if re-run.
>
> I installed this patch to Autoconf to try to address this problem.
The patch does two entirely unrelated things:
- fix a bug
- some efficiency-related change.
The second change causes config.log output to be less readable,
as now the test spans multiple lines. I think that's actually a
regression. Can we undo that part?
Cheers,
Ralf
> 2006-10-04 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE):
> Use a single call to AC_DO_TOKENS rather than multiple, for
> efficiency.
> (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Test that resulting file is executable.
> Problem reported by mwoehlke in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-10/msg00048.html>.