[Carl sent me the file listing off-list, thanks! I will analyze it in
due course.]
> [...] and make test with a single job (to avoid race conditions that
> have given me trouble in the past):
Interesting. When is the 'past'? This shouldn't happen today, and it
would be great if you could try a `-jXX' make option in the future so
that we can see if you really get a failure.
> now on to your requested steps:
Ah, my steps were not intended to be used additionally but instead :-)
> Everything completed without error.
This is good.
Regarding the `cp -l` issue: Irrespective of the faulty implementation
on macOS it turns out that option `-l` isn't portable at all, as I was
told by the autoconf people. I'm going to replace it with something
else that also works across file system boundaries (which even a
working `cp -l` does not).
Werner
