Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

[Paul Eggert]

Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:

> Making check in dd
> No suffix list.
>         make  check-TESTS
> No suffix list.
> Segmentation fault - core dumped
> ...
>
> obviously that's less than 100% OK. Do you have any suggestions what
> I should start to investigate?

You can start by doing the checks more verbosely.  Something like this:

cd tests/dd
VERBOSE=yes make check

and from that, most likely you can figure out exactly how 'dd' is
failing, and then perhaps get into GDB or some other debugger and
figure out what actually is causing the bug.