coreutils-5.1.0 build feedback

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

On DEC Alpha GNU/Linux, the coreutils-5.1.0 test suite had one failure:

FAIL: fold

On MacOS X, there was one failure:

FAIL: basic
./deref: skipping this test; your system doesn't support changing
the owner or group of a symbolic link.

On Sun Solaris 2.7 with CC=c89, there was one test failure:

out exp differ: char 37, line 1
split: 4294967296: invalid number of lines
Try `split --help' for more information.
split: 4294967296: invalid number of bytes
Try `split --help' for more information.
1c1
< split: line count option -9999999999... is too large
---
> split: line count option -99999999999999999991... is too large
FAIL: split-fail

This happened on Solaris 2.8 and 2.9 as well.

On GNU/Linux on Intel IA-32 with Intel icc, there was a compilation
failure:

icc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib
-I/usr/local/include  -g -c stat.c
/usr/include/bits/statfs.h(27): error: identifier "__SWORD_TYPE" is undefined
      __SWORD_TYPE f_type;
      ^
... many more ...


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