bug#10423: problem with "make check" coreutils-8.14 after build on AIX (v5.3, xlc v7, ksh as default shell)

[Jim Meyering]

Michael Felt wrote:
...
> Making check in tests
>       make  check-TESTS
> help-version: failed test: --version-$VERSION mismatch
> FAIL: misc/help-version

Thanks.  While my suggested change was bogus,
at least the above does hint at the problem.
It's saying that when it runs say cat --version,
the version it prints does not match the expected "8.14".
That is likely to happen if your "make" program fails
to set PATH as the testing framework requires.

You may want to install GNU make.
It won't help us diagnose the underlying problem, but it may well
solve all of your "make check" failures.