Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.19 on HP-UX

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:45:22 +0200, Benoit SIGOURE <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:19 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:50:26 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues  
> > <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I'll stop nagging, and will just conclude with my opinion that
> > choosing check as a test target was very very wrong to begin with.
> 
> Stating this is useless and I could as well go on that choosing  
> `test' as a check target was very very wrong to begin with :)

Yep. But I couldn't resist.

> > I was having a look at the Makefile stuff in coreutils and wondered
> > how sure they are that the 'test' calls in the make environment are
> > not the one they've just build. There are quite a few people that
> > include '.' in their $PATH upfront.
> 
> That's also something very very wrong to do.  People doing this will  
> surely shoot them in the foot and they don't need to build coreutils  
> to run into all sorts of problems.

I never have to build coreutils in complete. I just need 'ls' on
proprietary systems like HP-UX and AIX. For my linux and cygwin
machines, I'll just use what their package managers offer.

> > I'll just try to see if I can invent some evil scheme to make
> > $CONFIG_SITE, being a shell script, alter all the Makefile* in the
> > tree like
> >
> >    # find . -name 'Makefile*' |\
> >      xargs perl -pi -e's/^check:/test check:/'
> >
> > and there was no more cursing :)
> 
> Ahah.  Doing this will lead to some unexpected breakage, some day.   
> For sure.  Be warned.

I'm always warned :)
And building from scratch on HP-UX and AIX is an adventure already,
so if that would be the only `problem', I can live with it :)

See http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/downloads.html for what I
make publicly available on my site

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