Related to checking man pages I noticed this error: ~/git/coreutils/man$ make check-programs-vs-x GEN check-programs-vs-x missing libstdbuf.so.x make: *** [check-programs-vs-x] Error 1
"check-programs-vs-x" is called with "distcheck-hook" so I'm unsure of exactly why this failure is not being triggered. Anyway this should fix it: diff a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am all_programs.list: @echo $(all_programs) | tr ' ' '\n' | sed -e 's,$(EXEEXT)$$,,' \ + | sed /libstdbuf/d \ | $(ASSORT) -u I was also wondering about calling "check-programs-vs-x" from syntax-check instead of dist-check? cheers, Pádraig.