On 06/03/19 09:10, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 05/03/19 15:57, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> On 3/4/19 11:18 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz >>> cd coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e/ >> >> Thanks! >> >> Newer openSUSE:Leap-15 and SUSE:SLE-15 seem to be fine (some archs are still >> building), >> but the builds on all SUSE:SLE-12 versions and e.g. not so fresh openSUSE >> Leap_42.3 (released >> 2017-07-26, maintained until June 2019) fail: >> >> Older makeinfo-4.13a seems to have problems with the addition of the >> macro '@{hashchar}' of commit v8.30-33-g2f438fa9f: > > Cool, we should probably use Assaf's patch to avoid that. > Though I also am surprised that makeinfo is needed at all. > Before release I checked the extracted archive had appropriate timestamps. > I used: > > stat -c '%y %n' coreutils-8.26/doc/* | sort > > to check that: > > constants.texi <= version.texi <= stamp-vti <= coretuils.info > > Can you see if that is not the case for you.
I suppose if you had local patches to some of the .c files, that would regenerate constants.texi, thus triggering a rebuild.