Re: AIX tests failures

[Albert Chin]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:58:24PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I have to confess that I wonder if it's worth trying to work around
> bugs in AIX 4.  Is it still officially supported?  Is it used by many?
> I haven't had access to such a system for a few years now, and no one
> has been building coreutils on any version of AIX, as far as I've heard.
> But since it affects 5.1, too, maybe it's worthwhile.

We reported a problem with shred from coreutils-5.2.1 on AIX 5.2 on
May 13, 2004:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00028.html

We're definitely building coreutils on AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3
and have customers relying on it.

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albert chin (address@hidden)