Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

[mwoehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > > [let me see if gmane lets me reply to posts]
> > gmane works great, it's the only way I read this list (and several
> > others). :-)
> >
> > btw, thanks for the mails... I just built coreutils on Darwin also, and
> > had a good number of 'make check' failures.
>
> > I am also noticing that
> > after making coreutils (and some other packages, I think bash was one),
> > to remove the directory, I have to 'rm -rf coreutils-5.97' as many as
> > four times before it fully goes away. Odd that just doing it several
> > times in succession works, though.
>
> Now, *that* is interesting.
> Would you please see if you can reproduce that using an rm binary
> built from coreutils-6.2?  I couldn't, when using an hfs partition
> on Darwin 8.7.0.  The core of rm was seriously revamped between
> coreutils-5.97 and 6.0.

I plan to, as soon as I get a chance. FYI this was on an NFS mount so 
there might be some weird interaction with the NFS driver... although 
I've built coreutils 5.97 on almost a dozen platforms and Darwin (both 
x86 and PowerPC as I recall) is the only OS that's given me problems.

I also saved the 'make check' output to take a look at, but I will 
probably roll a 6.2 before I take a serious look at that sort of thing 
(no need to chase down bugs that are already fixed, after all :-)).

--
Matthew
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