Re: coreutils-8.27 released [stable]

[Michael Felt]

So, after downloading the tarball, and updating local.mk I was able to
build from the sources.

Will provide the details later, but summary of "make check" is:

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.27.4-3c9d7
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 592
# PASS:  412
# SKIP:  177
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  3
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See ./tests/test-suite.log
Please report to address@hidden
============================================================================

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 20/06/17 15:18, Michael Felt wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/18/2017 10:55 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> Stop.
>>>> make returned an error
>>>>
>>>> Will look another time into missing "renameat"
>>> See http://bugs.gnu.org/26044
>> I suppossed that solved that problem - and then the next one. Or maybe I 
>> should have done something different from "autoreconf" after modifying 
>> bootstrap.conf.
>>
>> Now it stops - even with GNU make - at:
>> WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
>>          You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
>>          any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
>>          You might want to install the Texinfo package:
>>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
>>          The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
>>          using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might
>>          want to install GNU make:
>>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
>>
>> I can install the package that include makeinfo - but from memory, I did not 
>> need it with 8.25 (8.26 I never succeeded, nor posted about the issues).
>>
>> After installing texinfo - make continues, but sadly ends with:
>>   CCLD     src/cp
>> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .renameat
>> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more 
>> information.
>> Makefile:7586: recipe for target 'src/cp' failed
>> make[2]: *** [src/cp] Error 8
>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/data/prj/gnu/coreutils-8.27'
>> Makefile:10791: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/data/prj/gnu/coreutils-8.27'
>> Makefile:5798: recipe for target 'all' failed
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Summary:
>> 1. updated local.mk to say -qinclude=config.h
>> 2. updated bootstrap.conf to include renameat
>> 3. ran autoreconf
>> 4. installed "gmake" and texinfo (for makeinfo)
>> 5. still ends at missing renameat
>
> There was a link in that bug where I made a dist tarball available
> that should handle the renameat issue.
> Hopefully that won't trigger the need for makeinfo.
> Anyway to get around that you can just touch the info file I'd say
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig
>