Problems with directory trees "confdir-14B---" and "confdir3"

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

Since a few years recent versions of bison (3.8.2), findutils (4.6.0, 4.7.0) 
and m4 (1.4.19) fail to build on my Apple PowerBook G4 with Tiger (Mac OS X 
10.4.11) and/or Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8), and eleven years it failed for gzip 
(1.4) on someone other's Mac. The actual cause seems to be an ability of the 
MacPorts software (Tcl based) to remove the deep directory structure. From the 
shell or from inside GNU Emacs it works to overcome a "file name too long" 
error.


See these bug reports, particularly that for bison:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63603 – bison 3.8.2
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64373 and 
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58927 – findutils 4.7.0
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63059 and 
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62994 – m4 1.4.19
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50567 – findutils 4.6.0

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28654 – actually gzip 1.4, eleven years ago

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Greetings

  Pete

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