Re: coreutils 5.93 on IRIX 5.3

[Paul Eggert]

Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:

> at least it seems to surpress if not solve the issue. The code now compiles.

OK, thanks, I'll work on a patch along those lines.

> The other issue about grep (which is configure complaining about grep not
> supporting -e) can be worked around by setting GREP=egrep.

That's dangerous, since egrep treats regular expressions differently
from grep.  You really should get a working grep installed instead,
much as you did with 'sed'.

> + trap - 0 
> + - 
> -: Not found

Thanks.  That portability bug was fixed in CVS coreutils here:

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/coreutils/coreutils/build-aux/install-sh.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5

> running configure with CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh make the
> configure script hang. I don't get even to the first line of output.
> Looking with top I see to sed processes running at full power.

Can you figure out why that happens?  What happens if you run this
command?

CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh /bin/ksh -x configure