Re: Fwd: Can't compile coreutils-5.94-3 using fink 0.24.17 and gcc 4.0.1 on OSX 10.4.7

[Paul Eggert]

"Mr. Michael Huehne" <address@hidden> writes:

> I can't compile your coreutils on MacOSX 10.4.6 and 7.

>From the rest of your message, it appears that you can compile it just
fine.  It merely fails a test case.

I don't know what "coreutils-5.94-3" is.  Can you reproduce the
problem with plain coreutils 5.94?

Or better yet, please try coreutils 5.97 instead:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.97.tar.gz

>> rm: illegal option -- -
>> usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
>>        unlink file
>> ./fail-2eperm: cannot access required version (5.94) of rm

I'd guess you are using a nonstandard version of coreutils that
reports a version of "5.94-3" rather than "5.94".  In this case, it's
not really an upstream coreutils problem; it's a problem with your
distributor, and you need to talk to your distributor to get their bug
fixed.