Re: ./configure Make sources runs, but compiled make segfaults - is this a bug?

[Mark Galeck]

OK I was able to recompile Make 4.1 from git, successfully, without 
docs/translations as you have suggested.  However, there may be a problem with 
the tests.  Here is what I did for the record:

install the latest version of gettext GNU package, in non-default location to 
overwrite the old installation

same with autoconf

>autoreconf -i
got an error here:

> configure.ac:45: warning: macro `AM_PROG_AR' not found in library 
> configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AR 

ignore the error and try it again (by mistake, but it worked)
>autoreconf -i
now only the warning, no error

>./configure

>make -C glob
(this did nothing - "Nothing to be done for 'all'"

>make make
worked fine

then I had to do this as suggested by an error message in >make check
>mount /proc /proc -t proc

>make check SUBDIRS=

functions/file .......................................... 
*** Test died (functions/file): Opened read-only file! 

FAILED (4/4 passed) 



Should I ignore this failure?

Thank you

Mark