Re: coreutils-7.4: make check fails under Solaris 8

[Pádraig Brady]

Christophe LYON wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm guessing the Solaris 8 system strftime() (called by Perl)
>> doesn't support %F, whereas `date +%F` is using a gnulib replacement?
>> This can be replaced I think with "%Y-%m-%d", as in the diff below.
>>
> 
> Thanks, you patches indeed fixes the problem.
> 
> Now, tty-eof fails:
> tty-eof: sort didn't exit after ^D from standard input
> 
> It used to pass with 7.2.

Weird. Can you run the following, hit ^D and post the log:

truss -o log src/sort

cheers,
Pádraig.