SV: configure breakage under Interix

[Jerker Bäck]

Hello Paul and thanks for the reply

I was more looking for a hint about what went wrong. If I use GNU gcc
(Interix version 3.3), configure succeed this passage and it looks like
this:

... 
checking for getloadavg... (cached) no
checking for pstat_getdynamic... (cached) no checking for kstat_open in
-lkstat... (cached) no checking for elf_begin in -lelf... (cached) no
checking for kvm_open in -lkvm... (cached) no checking for getloadavg in
-lutil... (cached) no checking for getloadavg in -lgetloadavg... (cached) no
checking for getloadavg... (cached) no ...
but when configure is about to finish and write the makefiles I get the same
problem as Sam Johnston:
...
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
sed: Cannot allocate memory
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
sed: Cannot allocate memory
...

It seems to me (but now I'm only guessing) that the script is suffering from
buffer overruns. 

> Some of the problems described in those links have been fixed, in
coreutils CVS.
> However, as far as I know we haven't gotten copyright assignment for 
> the remaining fixes so we can't incorporate them.

Copyright? From who?

> Perhaps you, or some other Interix user somewhere, have the competence 
> to do a port and can assign us the relatively-minor changes needed.

Well, configure scripts at this scale is really beyond me, as you probably
already figured out. Hopefully someone at the /tools community
<http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/default.aspx> do have the skill.

I'll try my luck with the cvs source.

best regards Jerker Bäck