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Re: coreutils build on OSF/1 4.0d
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils build on OSF/1 4.0d |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:33:37 +0100 |
Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Building a coreutils snapshot (2007-02-21) from http//"meyering.net/cu/
>> on OSF/1 4.0d with the native cc shows three problems:
>> 2) "make check" failure of du/slink.
>> The 'out' file produced by this test has size 0 for all sylimks. The same
>> happens for /bin/du, so it's not a problem in the code of 'du'. Probably
>> this type of file system needs to be excluded, like 'xfs' is excluded.
>> The type of file system in this case is 'nfsv3'. The NFS server in this
>> case is dedicated hardware designed for use as a file server. This
>> workaround workd for me (causes the test to be skipped).
>
> ...except I haven't had this failure on OSF 4.0g on nfsv3 file systems.
> Wouldn't it be better to skip on nfsv3 only on OSF 4.0d or earlier?
Yes, that would be better. Propose a patch!