Re: Problems building 4.2.29 on non-Linux

[James Youngman]

On 1/15/07, Bert Deknuydt <address@hidden> wrote:
> I find no README-CVS file in 4.2.8, but I tried the beta version 4.3.2 on
> alpha.gnu.org.  On Tru64 and HPUX (no Solaris at hand right now), that
> builds and checks perfectly.

Great news.

> Anything else I can do?

Only if you are super-motivated....

1. you could install dajagnu and run the test suite, but it's not at
all urgent and there is no particular reason to suspect that the
testsuite won't work.

2. I think the other thing that might be problematic is filesystem
name checking.   So a brief test of things like "-printf %D %F\n" on
Tru64 and IRIX would be useful.

3. Does find foo -printf "%b %s\n" work OK on HPUX specifically?   Is
the first field correct?

4. Is a native "locate" avilable on HPUX?

Thanks,
James.



If you do get access to a Solaris box, it'd be useful if you could
test "-type D" since doors are not supported on my development system.