Re: [Gnu-arch-users] A test failure on AIX

[John Goerzen]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:09:21PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> I certainly hope that you mean candidate0.   As far as I can recall, I
> have not released a candidate1.
> 
> That error is symptomatic of your needing to configure to use a recent
> GNU patch ("patch(1)").   Surely a configure-time test is desirable

GNU patch is installed, but I believe IBM's patch, wherever it's from,
comes first on PATH.  As for being recent, well... from my experience,
AIX is doing well to support ASCII :-)

> here but so far it has been a relatively rare error.

I wouldn't be surprised if some other proprietary Unices share this
problem.  If I were to guess, I'd suspect that use of tla on proprietary
Unices is relatively rare, too.

-- John

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