I have just completed builds of gzip-1.3.11 in bare (./configure && make ...) and customized (set CC, LDFLAGS, etc for ./configure) environments: 45 in all, of which 41 succeeded and reported all tests passed.
The failures are on NetBSD 1.6 on IA-32, and Sun Solaris 7 SPARC (a rather old O/S and hardware due to be retired in the next few months). On NetBSD, the builds end like this: gzip <gzip.doc >gzip.doc.gz { test '.' != . || GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz; } GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c ./gzip.doc ./gzip.doc GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff ./gzip.doc gzip.doc.gz GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c - ./gzip.doc <gzip.doc.gz GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz gzip.doc.gz ./zdiff[157]: gzip -cdfq -- gzip.doc.gz 4>&-; echo 0 >&4) 3>&- 5<&- </dev/null | eval ${DIFF-diff} '-c' -- /dev/fd/5 -) 5<&0 : unexpected `gzip' make[2]: *** [check-local] Error 2 On Solaris, the failure is similar: { test '.' != . || GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz; } GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c ./gzip.doc ./gzip.doc GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff ./gzip.doc gzip.doc.gz GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c - ./gzip.doc <gzip.doc.gz GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz gzip.doc.gz make[2]: *** [make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/nova/build-local/build/cc/gzip-1.3.11' make[2]: [check-local] Error 2 Without delving into the test suite, I don't know what "error 2" means in these failures. A "find . -type f -newer gzip" command finds no further file evidence of the failure. What should I look for? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------