Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier

[Jim Meyering]

Erik Auerswald wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:26:45AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Tim Mooney wrote:
>>
>> > ./configure --prefix=/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/local/gnu --build 
>> > x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --sysconfdir=/etc/local/gnu 
>> > --libdir=/local/gnu/lib/64 --mandir=/local/gnu/share/man 
>> > --infodir=/local/gnu/share/info --localstatedir=/var/local/gnu 
>> > --disable-nls
>>
>> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /local/gnu/bin/ginstall -c
>> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>
>> Considering all of the programs from /usr/xpg4/bin mentioned
>> in that output, I suspect you have an unusual PATH.
>> What is your PATH?
>
> Just for info: the /usr/xpg4/bin directory is one of several to make
> Solaris standards compliant. You can use different binary dirs to have
> compliance to different versions of the standards.
>
> Sorry, I don't have access to a Solaris machine right now, so I can't
> check all the details.

Thanks, I have long experience with Solaris' /usr/xpg4/bin.
I don't expect that there's anything wrong with using those
tools at all, and confirmed that coreutils-7.2 built and passed
tests with /usr/xpg4/bin first in the shell's search path.

However, it is unusual enough to put that directory so early
in ones path that I suspect there might be something else
unusual about Tim's PATH.