Subject: Re: bug#20733: coreutils build problem

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:27:59 -0700

Michael Felt wrote:
> I downloaded, unpacked, ran configure and then "make -i". The only thing
> notable is still the problem with the man page for 'test' aka '['
> (right_bracket)
>
>    GEN      man/test.1

Yes, somehow AIX make is losing the dependency of man/test.1 on src/[ perhaps 
because it treats [ specially (but why would it?).  Anyway, one workaround is to 
use gmake, another is to do 'make src/[' by hand first, before doing 'make'.  At 
some point someone with AIX access and time to burn might look into working 
around the AIX make glitch.