Re: coreutils 6.3 on Tru64 - just plain broken, or...?

[Paul Eggert]

mwoehlke <address@hidden> writes:

> things went badly until I removed the #define for
> intmax_t from config.h.

That's not a good sign.  In what way did they go badly, exactly?  What
diagnostics did you get?

> shuf builds, but the linker complains about 'ftello unresolved', and
> then *produces a file* (but without +x), with the result that 'make'
> then thinks it has nothing to do to for target 'shuf' and continues on
> to "success" if re-run.

I'll address this via separate email.

> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/install/gnu/src/coreutils-6.3/tests/cp'
> PASS: src-base-dot
> ./sparse: 343414 Memory fault
> ./sparse: 343422 Memory fault
> ./sparse: failure in testing framework
> FAIL: sparse

To get more info for failures like this, please try this:

cd /home/install/gnu/src/coreutils-6.3/tests/cp
VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS=sparse