Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

[Georg Schwarz]

Am 19.12.2006 um 03:11 schrieb Paul Eggert:

> Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I manually changed the sources according to your patches.
> > Nevertheless I still end up like this:
> >
> >         cc  -g   -o dir ls.o ls-dir.o ../lib/libcoreutils.a  ../lib/
> > libcoreutils.a
> > ld:
> > Unresolved:
> > _ctmp_
> > _iswctype
> > *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> > *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> > *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> >
> > do I first have to rebuild certain parts of the sources using some
> > tools like automake?
>
> Plain 'make' should invoke automake and autoconf as needed.
> However, you have to have those tools installed; if they're
> not installed, 'make' skips the step.

I have them installed, but they were not in the standard path so they  
could not be found.

> However, this particular patch should work on your host
> even if automake and autoconf are not installed.  Can
> you please try removing all your .o files and recompiling?

sure. I had done a make distclean which I had assumed would be enough.

> That might be enough to do the trick.  If not, please
> try applying that patch to a fresh copy of coreutils,
> and building from that.

I'll report back.



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