Re: really weird build problem on MacOSX/Tiger 10.4.11

[Jim Meyering]

> I'm attaching a shortened make warning showing a problem with ID vs
> id under the src subdir, along with an ls listing of that same
> subdir.  We're unable to get the final linked exe for id created
> there.  The HFS+ build volume is "case sensitive", as is the boot

Thanks for the report.  However, ...

You are using a case-INsensitive file system.
Because of that, the default rule generated by automake
for ID (created by mkid) is conflicting with coreutils'
rule for "id" the program.

I suggest you build using a case sensitive file system.
...
> $ make -w
> make: Entering directory 
> `/Volumes/BigUn3/Projects/coreutils-6.12.29-a16be/src'
> Makefile:2050: warning: overriding commands for target `ID'
> Makefile:1569: warning: ignoring old commands for target `ID'