Using coreutils 9.6 on a vanilla Fedora 40 system, with no ./configure customizations,
This works: $ make src/sort ... $ src/sort --version sort (GNU coreutils) 9.6 This fails: $ ./configure && make -j2 src/sort ... GEN src/version.c CC lib/libcoreutils_a-hard-locale.o CC lib/libcoreutils_a-hash.o lib/hard-locale.c: In function 'hard_locale': lib/hard-locale.c:30:15: error: 'SETLOCALE_NULL_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'SETLOCALE_NULL_ALL_MTSAFE'? 30 | char locale[SETLOCALE_NULL_MAX]; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | SETLOCALE_NULL_ALL_MTSAFE lib/hard-locale.c:30:15: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in lib/hard-locale.c:32:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'setlocale_null_r' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 32 | if (setlocale_null_r (category, locale, sizeof (locale))) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make: *** [Makefile:15454: lib/libcoreutils_a-hard-locale.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Let's try again: $ make -j2 src/sort CC src/sort.o CC src/version.o src/version.c:2:10: fatal error: version.h: No such file or directory 2 | #include "version.h" | ^~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make: *** [Makefile:12848: src/version.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... In file included from src/sort.c:32: src/system.h:41:10: fatal error: configmake.h: No such file or directory 41 | #include "configmake.h" | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make: *** [Makefile:12848: src/sort.o] Error 1 $ make --version GNU Make 4.4.1 Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu Is there a dependency problem in the generated Makefile? FWIW I see similar errors trying to build src/cp and src/mv. src/sort$(EXEEXT): $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) $(EXTRA_src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) src/$(am__dirstamp) @rm -f src/sort$(EXEEXT) $(AM_V_CCLD)$(LINK) $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_LDADD) $(LIBS) src/split.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp) src/temp-stream.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) \ src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp) Cheers, Phil