Re: coreutils build on OSF/1 4.0d

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Building a coreutils snapshot (2007-02-21) from http//"meyering.net/cu/
> on OSF/1 4.0d with the native cc shows three problems:
>
> 1) "Make: bad lock name" errors when 'make' enters the src directory.
> This was already reported in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00062.html

I think using bash is one way to work around that.
The problem is with the program named `['.

> 2) "make check" failure of du/slink.
>
> 2007-02-23  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>
>       * tests/du/slink: Skip the test if executing on an nfsv3 file system.
...
> 3) "make check" failure of readlink/can-e readlink/can-f readlink/can-m.
> The reason is that the expression (inside backquotes)   "${p}"./subdir/
> expands to                                              /subdir/
> when p is empty. This is obviously a shell bug. Here is a workaround.
>
> 2007-02-23  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>
>       * tests/readlink/can-e: Put the closing double-quote at the end of a
>       backquoted word, not in the middle. Works around a bug in sh on
>       OSF/1 4.0d.
>       * tests/readlink/can-f: Likewise.
>       * tests/readlink/can-m: Likewise.

Both patches applied.  Thanks!