Chris Clayton wrote:
I've just built coreutils-8.2 and make check fails and asks for a report to
this mail address.
configure is run thusly:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-acl --disable-rpath --disable-nls
--disable-xattr
...
Thanks for the report. What type of system are you using?
Just noticed this having upgraded to Fedora 12. I use tail -F to follow
a file that vanishes and is recreated once a minute. It works for some
time but eventually tail quits and goes back to the command prompt. Just
thought I'd let you know in case you changed something.
tail: `info.log' has
Marc Perkel wrote:
Just noticed this having upgraded to Fedora 12. I use tail -F to
follow a file that vanishes and is recreated once a minute. It works
for some time but eventually tail quits and goes back to the command
prompt. Just thought I'd let you know in case you changed something.
Added bug-coreutils@gnu.org, which I missed on the reply below...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Chris Clayton chris2...@googlemail.com
Date: 2009/12/12
Subject: Re: 'make check' failure with coreutils-8.2
To: Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net
2009/12/12 Jim Meyering
I've just noticed that `tail -f` will not work over NFS
as changes on the remote system will not go through
the local VFS and so will not be noticed by inotify.
Testing with `tail -s.1 ---disable-inotify` does get the
changes noticed, albeit after a delay of 3s on my setup.
So what to do? I
