Re: Compiling coreutils-5.0 on a Mac Powerbook under OS X

[Jim Meyering]

John Lowe <jrnl@bytetype.co.uk> wrote:
...
> $ ./configure
> $ cd src
> $ make nl
> source='nl.c' object='nl.o' libtool=no \
> depfile='.deps/nl.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/nl.TPo' \
> depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../config/depcomp \
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib   -g -O2 -c
> nl.c system.h:18: header file 'alloca.h' not found
> system.h:62: header file 'localedir.h' not found
> cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in
> basic mode make: *** [nl.o] Error 1

Oh!  I see the problem, now.  You're not running make from the top.
You must first build in lib/.

I suggest you simply run make from the top directory.