Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 02:46:29PM CET:
> On 01/22/2011 05:45 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > automake/tests/fn99{,subdir}.test have been long-time failures on
> > AIX 5.[123], but not 6.1 or newer (and IIRC not 4.3.3 either):
> > http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201101181921915482000.txt
> > +@example
> > +@kbd{mkdir -p 12345678/12345678/12345678/12345678}
> > +@kbd{touch 12345678/12345678/x}
> > +@kbd{cp -R 12345678 t}
> > +cp: 0653-440 12345678/12345678/: name too long.
> > +@end example
>
> Does 'cp -r' fare any better (not that it's a good solution, because it
> can hang on pipes)?
Nope, at least not on AIX 5.3. I rechecked 5.1 now, and while the
Automake test segfaulted there, the exact sequence from the
autoconf.texi patch does not fail there now. Oh well, memory
corruption is a tricky beast, I'm not really motivated to find a
case that fails identically on all three systems.
> At any rate, this is fine for the autoconf manual.
Thanks,
Ralf
