Re: new snapshot [Re: coreutils 6.9.92 fail to configure on *bsd

[Jim Meyering]

Elias Pipping <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> If that's the problem, here's an untested fix:
>
> Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to help.

Thanks for checking.
That suggests there's a more fundamental problem.

Please do this as root:

  cd coreutils-6.10/src
  ./id -a
  ./rm -rf f g
  echo a > f
  ./chown +0:+0 f
  ls -ld . f
  ./cp f g
  ls -l g

and look at the output.
The final ls should show g with group "root".
If not, please repeat but with this in place of the
./cp command above:

  strace -o log ./cp f g

and then send the output as well as the contents of "log"
to the list.