Re: textutils version 2.1 bug

[Paul Eggert]

"Parimi, Venkateshwara Rao" <address@hidden> writes:

> With the same shells it works fine on another machine with Solaris 2.6.

What is the difference between the two machines?  That would be
one way to track down the problem.

I still suggest that you install the Sun-recommended patches in
<ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/2.6_Recommended.tar.Z>.
It will save your time and ours.

> What I want to know is, what would be the next check done by the configure
> script that causing Segmentation fault.

You should be able to find that out by running "ksh -x ./configure"
instead of plain "./configure".

> 1) src/wheel-gen.pl has #!/usr/bin/perl hard-coded(I have perl in
> /usr/local/bin).
>       Can this be auto detected?

It could, but does it fix things to replace "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" with
"#!/usr/bin/env perl"?  I don't know what the -w does; can that be done
inside the perl script instead?

> 2) Basic test of du fails because of the test file is written with less
> bytes than required (>64 bytes).

I vaguely recall that this is fixed in coreutils 5.0.1; can you try that?
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.1.tar.gz

> b) fail-2eperm of rm fails because of the error string expected is different
> >From the actual error string returned
> parimiv > diff fail-2eperm fail-2eperm.fixed
> 46c46
> < rm: cannot remove `a/b': Operation not permitted
> ---
> > rm: cannot remove `a/b': Not owner

This test-case bug still remains in 5.0.1, I think.  But it's not a
bug in rm, as far as I can see.