Re: coreutils-8.29 released [stable]

[Michael]

On 02/01/2018 11:40, Michael wrote:
> > > Stop.
> > >
> > > Happy and Healthy 2018!!
> > Another issue with AIX make?
> > Note we've documented in README for this release that
> > gmake is preferred for AIX. Can you try that?
>
> The problem is AIX 5.3 make - gmake brought me further - and gave a 
> better error message:
p.s. - Should have said - problem is AIX 5.3 /bin/sh and the size of the 
arg list. Maybe the misleading error message is the issue with AIX 
make(1) and gnu make gives a better response.
> ...
>
> make[4]: Entering directory '/data/prj/gnu/coreutils-8.29'
> make[4]: execvp: /bin/sh: Arg list too long
>
> On AIX 6.1