Re: coreutils-6.3: install: basic-1 fails

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bauke Jan Douma <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > cp: cannot open
> > `/sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd' for reading:
>
> What are the permissions of that file?  That is, what is the output of
> this command:
>
> ls -l /sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd

$> ls -l /sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd
-rwx--x--x 1 root staff 45532 Oct  3 18:06 
/sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd

$> /sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd if=/dev/zero of=out 
bs=1c count=32
32+0 records in
32+0 records out
32 bytes (32 B) copied, 0.000135955 s, 235 kB/s

I was wanting to investigate this further but when I came across
some old note about `strip' (mine is binutils GNU strip 2.17) in
the basic-1 script at that point my phone rang...
I'll look into it tomorrow.

bj