Re: coreutils-6.11 released

[Jim Meyering]

Elbert Pol <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Elbert Pol<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>> I try that build, but is fails now at a earlyer point.
>>
>> Well, your logs show that configure succeeded, which means the
>> failure is _later_.  And that means my patch solved the problem.
>>
>>> I attach logs
>>
>> Thank you.
>> The first interesting part is here:
>>
>>      In file included from file-set.h:2,
>>                       from file-set.c:20:
>>      sys/stat.h:267:8: operator '!' has no right operand
>>      make.exe[3]: *** [file-set.o] Error 1
>>
>> That suggests that HAVE_LSTAT is not expanded as expected in
>> lib/sys/stat.h.  The template, lib/sys_stat.in.h has this:
>>
>>      #if ! @HAVE_LSTAT@
>>      # define lstat stat
>>      #endif
>>
>> yet, the diagnostic above suggests your lib/sys/stat.h looks like this:
>>
>>      #if !
>>      # define lstat stat
>>      #endif
>>
>> Contrast that with your config.log file, which says
>>
>>      #define HAVE_LSTAT 1
>>
>> So, would you please post both your lib/sys/stat.h,
>> to confirm, and config.status, since it is the file
>> responsible for performing the substitution that may be failing.

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> Hmmm hoi Jim,
>
> Thats indeed strange.
>
> I attach both files

Thank you.
They show that your stat.h file comes from coreutils-6.11,
not from the snapshot.  The build problem is actually coming
from the mkdir-related block just after the one I mentioned above,
and that particular problem appears to be fixed in the snapshot,
thanks to Bruno's gnulib patch to work around a mingw build failure.