On Tue, Nov 15, 2022, at 12:49 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2022-11-13, Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org> wrote: >> I have not pushed this, and have only tested it lightly on a current Linux. >> It needs testing on weird old systems, particularly old AIX, HP-UX, MinGW. > > I'd be happy to give it a go on my weird old systems ...
I forgot to mention at the time: Testing on systems *where time_t is only 32 bits wide by default* is especially useful. > /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck > running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./configure --no-create > --no-recursion > ./configure: 6: cannot create .: Is a directory > ./configure: 6: cannot create .: Is a directory > [...] > checking for Perl >=5.10.0 with Time::HiRes::stat... configure: > error: no acceptable perl could be found in $PATH. > Perl 5.10.0 or later is required, with Time::HiRes::stat. > make: *** [Makefile:969: config.status] Error 1 The procedure you used should have worked, assuming $PATH did not change from step to step. One possible explanation is that there's a bug with building in the source directory -- at step 2, try instead mkdir _build cd _build ../configure Another possible explanation is that the bootstrap operation didn't set file timestamps accurately (perhaps because the filesystem you're on doesn't support high-resolution time stamps) and so it's trying to regenerate 'configure' with an _older_ autoconf which trips over some state left by the bootstrap process. Another thing to try is ./bootstrap sleep 2 && touch aclocal.m4 && sleep 2 && touch Makefile.in && sleep 2 && touch configure ./configure sleep 2 && touch config.status && sleep 2 && touch tests/aclocal Makefile lib/version.m4 make Please let us know if either of those things helps. zw
