Re: avoid buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 02:46:29PM CET:
> On 01/22/2011 05:45 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > automake/tests/fn99{,subdir}.test have been long-time failures on
> > AIX 5.[123], but not 6.1 or newer (and IIRC not 4.3.3 either):
> > http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201101181921915482000.txt

> > address@hidden
> > address@hidden -p 12345678/12345678/12345678/12345678}
> > address@hidden 12345678/12345678/x}
> > address@hidden -R 12345678 t}
> > +cp: 0653-440 12345678/12345678/: name too long.
> > address@hidden example
> 
> Does 'cp -r' fare any better (not that it's a good solution, because it
> can hang on pipes)?

Nope, at least not on AIX 5.3.  I rechecked 5.1 now, and while the
Automake test segfaulted there, the exact sequence from the
autoconf.texi patch does not fail there now.  Oh well, memory
corruption is a tricky beast, I'm not really motivated to find a
case that fails identically on all three systems.

>  At any rate, this is fine for the autoconf manual.

Thanks,
Ralf