On OSF/1 5.1, build with "make" fails: Making all in src Make: bad lock name: base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head id join kill link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nl nproc nohup od paste pathchk pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink vdir wc whoami yes. Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. No suffix list. make check-recursive No suffix list. Making check in lib make check-recursive Making check in src Make: bad lock name: base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head id join kill link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nl nproc nohup od paste pathchk pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink vdir wc whoami yes. Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop.
Build with "gmake" succeeds. But "gmake check" hangs: $ gmake check ... gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/haible/multibuild-1313/osf51-cc/coreutils-8.13.29-43a9/tests' GEN .built-programs gmake check-TESTS gmake[3]: Entering directory `/home/haible/multibuild-1313/osf51-cc/coreutils-8.13.29-43a9/tests' Stack overflow: pid 228123, proc ksh, addr 0x11effffd0, pc 0x3ff801c5018 Here I stopped it after a while. A ksh process had more than 170 MB. Bruno -- In memoriam Engin Ceber <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engin_Ceber>