GNU bug report logs - #9715
coreutils-8.12/tandem build failure, with local patches

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From: basavaraj b <basavaraja.b <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error while compiling coreutils-8.12
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:28:56 +0530

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   Hi,

>
> I am facing the below problem repeatedly while running the make of
> coreutils-8.12:
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/basav/coreutils-8.12/man'
>   GEN      chroot.1
> sed: can't read chroot.td/chroot.1: No such file or directory
>
> I am running the package on 'NONSTOP_KERNEL' platform.
> Attached is the configure file I have used.
>
> Please resolve my problem.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Basavaraj B
>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: basavaraj b <basavaraja.b <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9715: Error while compiling coreutils-8.12
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:44:35 -0700

Thanks for the bug report.

From the 'configure' file you sent, it appears that you're
using a modified version of coreutils, along with some other
files (e.g., <floss.h>) that aren't part of the coreutils
distribution.

The "configure" file is generated automatically, so if it's
not working for you, we need to fix the source code for
"configure" rather than patching it by hand.  The source
code can be found in "configure.in" as well as in the
m4/*.m4 files.

Also, if any other source code is needed to build coreutils,
we'd need that.  I expect that this would include
<floss.h> (which declares alloca and floss_getmntent)
and perhaps the code for floss_getmntent.

It puzzles me that any of these changes are needed, as I
thought that coreutils already ran on Tandem.  Perhaps
Tandem has changed? or it's an issue of which compiler or
library is being used?

One other thing: it's better to use the latest version of
coreutils (currently this is 8.13).  Sometimes this fixes
your problem without any further effort on your part; and
even when it doesn't, any patches are easier to merge in.

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9715: Error while compiling coreutils-8.12
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:13:38 -0600

close 9715
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 10/10/11 11:44 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report.
> 
>  From the 'configure' file you sent, it appears that you're
> using a modified version of coreutils, along with some other
> files (e.g., <floss.h>) that aren't part of the coreutils
> distribution.
> 
[...]
> One other thing: it's better to use the latest version of
> coreutils (currently this is 8.13).  Sometimes this fixes
> your problem without any further effort on your part; and
> even when it doesn't, any patches are easier to merge in.
> 

With no further follow-ups in 7 years, I'm closing this bug.

-assaf

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