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Re: Some minor issues with 5.96
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Some minor issues with 5.96 |
Date: |
Sat, 27 May 2006 15:48:20 +0200 |
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> - Solaris 2.6 doesn't grok these lines:
> | base64.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/base64.x ../src/base64.c
Thanks for the testing and investigation.
> in that ../src/base64.c isn't searched through VPATH. Using GNU make
> works. Solaris 7 has this fixed.
I'm not too worried about portability to Solaris 2.6's make;
I see little downside to leaving this as-is. Besides, isn't
it already documented that if you want a VPATH build to succeed,
you have to have GNU make?
> - Let's have `make check' be portable, so users can easily use it.
> Patch below.
Applied, as noted separately.
> - On Solaris 7, I get one test failure:
> (Is that due to a recent Autoconf glitch?)
> | FAIL: ../../../coreutils-5.96/tests/cp/symlink-slash
Yes. You can test the fix by applying the configure patch here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00142.html