Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

[mwoehlke]

mwoehlke wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > > mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > address@hidden wrote:
> > > > > > [let me see if gmane lets me reply to posts]
> > > > > gmane works great, it's the only way I read this list (and several
> > > > > others). :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > btw, thanks for the mails... I just built coreutils on Darwin also, 
> > > > > and had a good number of 'make check' failures. I am also noticing
> > > > > that after making coreutils (and some other packages, I think bash
> > > > > was one), to remove the directory, I have to
> > > > > 'rm -rf coreutils-5.97' as many as four times before it fully goes
> > > > > away. Odd that just doing it several times in succession works,
> > > > > though.
> > > > Now, *that* is interesting.
> > > > Would you please see if you can reproduce that using an rm binary
> > > > built from coreutils-6.2?  I couldn't, when using an hfs partition
> > > > on Darwin 8.7.0.  The core of rm was seriously revamped between
> > > > coreutils-5.97 and 6.0.
> > > I plan to, as soon as I get a chance. FYI this was on an NFS mount so
> > > there might be some weird interaction with the NFS driver... although
> > > I've built coreutils 5.97 on almost a dozen platforms and Darwin (both
> > > x86 and PowerPC as I recall) is the only OS that's given me problems.
> >
> > I was unable to reproduce that.  Tried both NFS and hfs.
> > If you can, please give details asap.  I expect to release
> > coreutils-6.3 very soon.
> > It'd be particularly useful to know how many files it removes
> > at each iteration.
>
> Did you try with 5.97? I haven't tried 6.2 yet (will try to do that 
> soon)... 

Ok, I just tried with the "latest" version you sent me (post-6.2, 
will-be-6.3 for the rest of the list) with the same results.

I'm working on building test output (including verbose) for the entire 
suite for Darwin PowerPC (the same machine I did the last test on).

> [snip previous output]

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