Re: AIX tests failures

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:25:14AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Albert Chin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That was two years ago.
> Are you building recent coreutils on all of those systems?
> If so, isn't "make check" failing for you, too?

The last version we built was 5.93. I think we had some 'make check'
failures and reported some of them but I don't know if we reported
all.

> Oh.  I see you'd already diagnosed and worked around the strndup problem.
> Did you report that?  There have been mail delivery problems on the
> bug-coreutils list.

No. We ignore strndup() on AIX 4.3.3 because it requires a newer libc.
However, I don't recall if we had a problem on AIX 5.1.

> If people like you exercise new releases and provide feedback about
> them (even if just to say "it builds and passes make check on system
> X.Y.Z") on older systems, we'll be more likely to spend time
> integrating patches to support those systems.

We'll try to find time to do this.

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albert chin (address@hidden)