coreutils-4.5.12 build feedback

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I've done builds of coreutils-4.5.12 in 40 compilation environments on
17 Unix platforms.  On each platform, I've got successful validation
runs for at least one compilation environment, and have installed the
new coreutils version.

On two platforms, there was a failure of "make check" because a
working perl is not available (HP-UX 10.01 was perl-4.0, and
NetBSD-1.6 has no perl at all, and I've so far been unable to build it
there).  On these, "make check" fails with something like this:

        make[1]: Entering directory 
`/home/beebe/9000_712/build/coreutils-4.5.12/doc'
        grep timezone ./*.texi && exit 1 || :
        grep '\$@"' ./*.texi && exit 1 || :
        /missing perl -ne \
          '/\bPOSIX\b/ && !/address@hidden/ && !/^\* / || /{posix}/ and 
print,exit 1' \
          ./*.texi 2> /dev/null && : || exit 1
        make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/beebe/9000_712/build/coreutils-4.5.12/doc'
        make[1]: *** [check-texinfo] Error 1
        18.9u 1.3s 0:23 88%

I did a "make check -i" to force it past that point of error, and all
tests passed.

In one compilation environment, CC=cc on Compaq OSF/1 4.0, I got two
test failures:

        PASS: start-middle
        sleeping for 7 seconds...
        ./assert: 18109 Terminated
        ==> a <==
        tail: foo: No such file or directory
        tail: `foo' has appeared;  following end of new file
        FAIL: assert
        sleeping for 7 seconds...
        ./assert-2: 18668 Terminated
        ==> a <==
        tail: foo: No such file or directory
        tail: `foo' has appeared;  following end of new file
        FAIL: assert-2
        ======================================
        2 of 4 tests failed
        (1 tests were not run)
        Please report to address@hidden
        ======================================

However, the build with c89 on that platform was completely
successful, so I used that one for the installation.

[Jim: that build is on mosso in /local/build/coreutils-4.5.12/ if you
want to inspect the check failures.]

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