Re: coreutils-6.7 fails "make check" on OS/X

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:17:32PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> And please tell us whether it's also trying the mkfifo call.
>> (you can just look for HAVE_MKFIFO in lib/config.h)
>
> Looking at the code around line 1690 in copy.c, it talks about
> using mknod instead of mkfifo.   Is this something that changed
> recently?   It looks like mkfifo may be required on on darwin.

Yes.
In fact, there is a fix for precisely that MacOS X mknod vs. mkfifo
problem.

2007-01-03  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use mkfifo as a fallback if mknod fails.
        Needed on MacOS X.

I've just made a new snapshot.  Would you please try it instead:

  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz