Re: now getting a build error with coreutils-cvs (Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time))

[Jim Meyering]

<address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2006-09-26 17:04:24 -0500, <address@hidden> said:
>
>> On 2006-09-25 17:25:01 -0500, <address@hidden> said:
>>
>>> I will pull coreutils and gnulib from CVS also and report back.
>> Okay I got a fresh clean copy of coreutils+gnulib, ran ./bootstrap,
>> complained only a tiny bit about the hu language (smth about 2 or
>> more suffixes for this language? I didn't save the output), but
>> otherwise a good run.  (Some months ago I did get autoconf-2.60
>> installed into both /usr and /usr/local [never know which is going
>> to be used ;) ].)
>> [snip]
>
> In case of dups, I checked to see the newer m4's are in
> /usr/local/share/aclocal, others are in /usr/share/aclocal, and I
> always do this in the build environment:
> export ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /usr/local/share/aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal'

That sounds risky.  I wouldn't.
You might easily end up using an incompatible .m4 file.
That can lead to subtle and hard-to-diagnose failures.