Tim Mooney wrote: > In regard to: Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier, Jim...: >> Thanks for the report. >> The tests are designed always to set PATH to make >> your shell use the just-built tools. >> >> If that's not happening for you, either the tool (yes) wasn't built >> or your shell is not honoring the PATH settings in the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT >> variable, as set in tests/check.mk. I suspect the latter. >> It'd be useful to know which shell configure chose for you. >> configure does try to find a sufficiently functional shell, >> but perhaps your system has managed to trick it. >> >> Please send (to this same list) the output of running your >> configure command, and the output from running "make check". > > Sure, included below. Note that I use locally-compiled > /local/gnu/bin/bash (4.0.10) as my shell, and I have seen occassional > strage behavior with configure from some other packages in the past > because it selects /bin/bash (3.00.16), but even if I set > CONFIG_SHELL=/local/gnu/bin/bash and export and configure, I still get > the same behavior.
Thanks. That seems to rule out bash as the cause. > ./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 > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /local/gnu/bin/ginstall -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes Considering all of the programs from /usr/xpg4/bin mentioned in that output, I suspect you have an unusual PATH. What is your PATH? It might be useful also to add an echo "PATH: $PATH" to one of the tests and check the .log file to see if that prints anything different. > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... build-aux/install-sh -c -d > checking for gawk... no > checking for mawk... no > checking for nawk... nawk > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes ... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils