On 2025-05-29 01:12, Peter Dyballa wrote:
First try with coreutils-9.7.39-c8d75 and Apple LLVM version 10.0.0
(clang-1000.11.45.5) AND without Pádraig's patch from a few days ago. I have to
change 1.18 to 1.17 in aclocal.m4 and configure (for which I prepared patches
to automate this).
For future tests of diffutils etc. let's not do that. Let's use the
latest version of everything. You shouldn't need to run even automake
1.18; you should be able to build from a tarball without running
aclocal, autoconf, automake, etc. If that's not working for some reason
let's fix that first.
Warning: Configuration logfiles contain indications of
-Wimplicit-function-declaration; check that features were not accidentally
disabled:
This warning is generated by MacPorts; see
<https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WimplicitFunctionDeclaration>. You'll
need a Mac expert to decide whether the warnings are bogus. My guess is
that they are, but I'm no expert.
Must you use MacPorts? (Remember, I'm no Mac expert.) Can't you just use
'./configure; make' like INSTALL says?
cd . && /bin/sh
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_macports-ports_sysutils_coreutils-devel/coreutils-devel/work/coreutils-9.7.39-c8d75/build-aux/missing
automake-1.17 --gnu
This suggests that you updated configure.ac or m4/*.m4 or */Makefile.am
or something like that. Let's not do that. Just unpack the tarball and
use it without changing any files or their timestamps. If you need to
make patches, you'll need to later run "./bootstrap" with Automake 1.18
and bleeding-edge-from-Savannah Autoconf and I wouldn't trust doing that
on an ancient Mac OS platform.
