Hi,
The coreutils CI build part that does a "make distcheck" today fails,
whereas on 2025-06-30 it succeeded [1].
The problem can be reproduced as follows:
1)
$ ./bootstrap --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make dist
2)
Unpack the tarball, cd into its directory.
3)
$ mkdir bb
$ cd bb
$ ../configure
$ make V=1
...
depbase=`echo src/pinky.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
gcc -I. -I.. -I./lib -Ilib -I../lib -Isrc -I../src -g -O2 -MT src/pinky.o
-MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/pinky.o ../src/pinky.c &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
gcc -g -O2 -Wl,--as-needed -o src/pinky src/pinky.o src/libver.a
lib/libcoreutils.a lib/libcoreutils.a
rm -f src/speedlist.h
/arch/local/x86_64-linux/bin/mkdir -p src
( for opt in -dM -xdumpmacros -qshowmacros -PD; do \
gcc -I. -I.. -I./lib -Ilib -I../lib -Isrc -I../src -g -O2
-E $opt ../src/termios.c 2>&1 && break; \
done ) | /bin/bash ../src/speedgen src/speedlist.ht
chmod a-w src/speedlist.ht
mv src/speedlist.ht src/speedlist.h
depbase=`echo src/stty.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
gcc -I. -I.. -I./lib -Ilib -I../lib -Isrc -I../src -g -O2 -MT src/stty.o
-MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/stty.o src/stty.c &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
cc1: fatal error: src/stty.c: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:13092: src/stty.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/COREUTILS/coreutils/coreutils-20250411/bb'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:23441: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/COREUTILS/coreutils/coreutils-20250411/bb'
make: *** [Makefile:9356: all] Error 2
Comparing the compilation commands for pinky.c and stty.c, you can see
that ../src/pinky.c and src/stty.c are referenced. But in a VPATH build,
src/stty.c does not exist.
This is caused by commit 017fc50bb6797ac2d71e46fef8f559acb0f44c5d.
If I locally revert this commit, "make V=1" succeeds.
Bruno
[1] https://github.com/coreutils/ci-check/actions
