coreutils-5.1.1 with patch for paste.c build feedback report

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I applied the patch for paste.c to the coreutils-5.1.1 distribution,
and named the new one coreutils-5.1.1.p01.

On 11 attempts, the build almost completed, but then stopped like
this:

        WARNING: `help2man' is missing on your system.  You should only need it 
if
                 you modified a dependency of a manual page.  You may need the
                 `Help2man' package in order for those modifications to take
                 effect.  You can get `Help2man' from any GNU archive site.
        make[2]: *** [paste.1] Error 1
        make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
        make: *** [all] Error 2

That prevented "make check" from running.  I thought that we had
already fixed the problem with a missing help2man in a recent
coreutils release.

On 5 January 2004, I tried installing the latest help2man-1.33.1 on
all local systems, but every single build failed with this complaint
from the configure stage:

        checking for module Locale::gettext... no
        configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required
        Command exited with non-zero status 1

Perhaps earlier versions will work; I'm starting some builds to find
out.

On DEC Alpha OSF/1 4.0, I got one test failure:

        Machinetype:            DEC Alpha 4100-5/466 (4 CPUs, 466 MHz, 2GB 
RAM);          OSF/1 4.0F
        Remote cc version:      DEC C V5.9-005 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 1229)
        Package:                coreutils-5.1.1.p01
        Configure environment:  CC=cc CXX=cxx LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib
        ...
        make  check-TESTS
        make[3]: Entering directory 
`/export/home/0023/build-alpha-osf1/coreutils-5.1.1.p01/tests/touch'
        out exp differ: char 10, line 1
        1c1
        < 2004-01-15T21:56:38
        ---
        > 2004-01-16T04:56:38
        FAIL: relative

It seemed minor, so I did the install anyway.  The same test failure
happened on other builds on that system.

Several builds are still in progress; I'll report later if there
are any new problems beyond those noted above.

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