On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:25:14AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:58:24PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> I have to confess that I wonder if it's worth trying to work around > >> bugs in AIX 4. Is it still officially supported? Is it used by many? > >> I haven't had access to such a system for a few years now, and no one > >> has been building coreutils on any version of AIX, as far as I've heard. > >> But since it affects 5.1, too, maybe it's worthwhile. > > > > We reported a problem with shred from coreutils-5.2.1 on AIX 5.2 on > > May 13, 2004: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00028.html > > > > We're definitely building coreutils on AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 > > and have customers relying on it. > > That was two years ago. > Are you building recent coreutils on all of those systems? > If so, isn't "make check" failing for you, too?
The last version we built was 5.93. I think we had some 'make check' failures and reported some of them but I don't know if we reported all. > Oh. I see you'd already diagnosed and worked around the strndup problem. > Did you report that? There have been mail delivery problems on the > bug-coreutils list. No. We ignore strndup() on AIX 4.3.3 because it requires a newer libc. However, I don't recall if we had a problem on AIX 5.1. > If people like you exercise new releases and provide feedback about > them (even if just to say "it builds and passes make check on system > X.Y.Z") on older systems, we'll be more likely to spend time > integrating patches to support those systems. We'll try to find time to do this. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils