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All- I'm building coreutils on x86_64-sun-solaris2.10, with the Sun Studio 12 and/or Express compilers. I'm building in 64 bit mode. Everything builds just fine, but before I finish packaging the software I always run "make check", to see what problems might turn up and how make check from one version of the software differs from make check in previous versions. I haven't been able to successfully use "make check" with coreutils in a while. The problem appears to be that several of the tests are performed without the correct PATH, because instead of getting the version of the program that was compiled in src/, it's getting the version of a particular command that's part of the OS. This is especially problematic when testing "yes". The Solaris version of yes doesn't support any of the command line arguments that the tests try, so the tests essentially hang while Solaris' yes loops continuously outputting things like "--help". I'm configuring the software like this ./configure --prefix=/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/local/gnu \ --build "x86_64-sun-solaris2.10" \ --sysconfdir=/etc/local/gnu --libdir=/local/gnu/lib/64 \ --mandir=/local/gnu/share/man --infodir=/local/gnu/share/info \ --localstatedir=/var/local/gnu \ --disable-nls and then doing gmake gmake check VERBOSE=yes (gmake is GNU make 3.81). I've checked the mailing list archives and I don't see any recent reports of this issue, though, and I would think others would have run into the same thing. Is this a known issue, or should I investigate further? Also, the README that comes with coreutils has a section on "Reporting bugs" and what you should do when reporting them, but it doesn't actually include the address to report them to. People familiar with other GNU packages can probably guess what the address is, but it would still be good to actually include the address in the README. Thanks, Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils