Re: Textutils-2.1 installation problem

[Bob Proulx]

Frank Ecke wrote:
> 
> I  got  hold  of textutils-2.1.tar.gz and configured the package
> with  "--disable-nls"  as  configure's  sole   parameter.    The
> following make (to be more precise, it was a "make -n") wouldn't
> do anything, it'd simply hang.

The packages textutils, shellutils and fileutils were merged into
coreutils.  If you could try your test again using the latest
coreutils it would help out.

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/

>    I've  tried it on a SGI and a Linux box: same result, nothing
> happens.

Does it hang or just return without doing anything?  Is it infinitely
looping?  You could tell if your cpu usage was continuously at 100%
because of this process.

Bob