Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> writes:
I'm quite certain I remember it bombing (there are 'unsigned long
long's sprinkled in there without it). But I am guessing the problem
is just that CVS is a little off of coreutils-6.4, which is what I was
trying to patch. I think the main problems were things like
'HAVE_LONG_LONG' vs. 'HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT' which caused 'patch' to
reject most of the hunks. Applying the patches by hand was fine and
(as I stated on bugs-m4) gave a successful build that passed 'make
check'.
This is all very confusing, I'm afraid. I am not sure what works
and what does not.
Let's put it this way. I'd like a story that sounds like this:
CVS coreutils + CVS gnulib does not work on my platform. When I do
"configure; make", the "make" fails with the following symptoms.
This is because "configure" sets up include files in such-and-such
a way, and the standard include files work in such-and-such a way,
and the C compiler has such-and-such properties. However, if I
apply the enclosed patch before running "configure", then things
work fine.
Perhaps if you get some free time you can write down the exact story
along those lines.