Re: I experience a Crash during ./configure conftest somewhere (MacOSX)

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
> Apple intends to use the llvm compiler suite for building Snow
> Leopard (10.6) itself, so I will use llvm for testing builds of
> any project first under Leopard (10.5.6 but without latest
> Security Update 2009-001 since I've read problems with it).
> I will use llvm as provided by XCode-3.1.2 with your released
> stable coreutils-7.1 now.
>
> Also, I know y'all have worked on Apple's style of multi-arch
> support recently, but many requisite pieces are not yet ready
> like that (some projects still need each arch to be built
> separately and lipo'd together).  Oh I know I could use Apple's
> versions of those requisites that _have_ been built with all
> four archs, but I like staying current (hah) and do 'em myself
> (/usr/local).  So I KISS by building only for i386 (32-bit).
>
> The conftest crash still occurs here during coreutils-7.1
> ./configure with llvm and with gcc-4.2 at least.
>
> I went ahead with building & installing coreutils-7.1 anyway.
>
> Running "make check" as user (created by OSX's install admin)
> has a couple FAILs:
> dd/skip-seek-past-file.log
> install/install-C.log
> with lots of SKIPs of course.

Thanks for taking the time to run the tests.
However, I suspect there's no need to worry about any of these
failures, but won't be able to look into them for a week or so.
If no one gets back to you on this in say, two weeks,
feel free to ping the list.

> Running "make check" as sudo root (after enabling it per doc'd
> procedure) has a bunch of FAILs:
> dd/skip-seek-past-file.log
> install/install-C.log
> cp/special-bits.log
> install/install-C-root.log
> misc/truncate-owned-by-other.log
> mv/sticky-to-xpart.log
> rm/no-give-up.log
> touch/now-owned-by-other.log
> and still lots of SKIPs.

SKIPs are fine.  If your system lacks e.g., SELinux/XATTR support
or some particular tool, we simply skip the corresponding test.

I suspect that
even those failures are not terribly worrisome,
given OSX's historically-spotty POSIX compliance.