coreutils fails to build due to apparent path recursion

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

I get something like this:

Error: Failed to configure coreutils: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_sysutils_coreutils/coreutils/work/coreutils-9.1/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3/confdir3: file name too long

I remember seeing that, but it went away years ago... changing compiler has no effect, it must be the make files somehow.

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

I wonder if this is related to:

​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62994

the path is not the same, but it still spits out "no space left on the device" as kind of recursion

[barracuda156]

I get this error on 10.6 PPC. But coreutils-devel install fine.

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

I hacked a little and found that applying ​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62994 does not work.

However, I was able to fix by still patching configure this way:

  /* Leaving behind such a deep directory is not polite.
     So clean up here, right away, even though the driving
     shell script would also clean up.  */
  {
    size_t i;

    /* Try rmdir first, in case the chdir failed.  */
    rmdir -rf (DIR_NAME);
    for (i = 0; i <= n_chdirs; i++)
      {
        if (chdir ("..") < 0)
          break;
        if (rmdir (DIR_NAME) != 0)
          break;
      }
  }

Please note the "-rf" i added in the first rmdir.

it helps the cleanup.

[kencu (Ken)]

In 96c9d4293aaa701ee42f292ddae87740c2b45ff6/macports-ports (master):

coreutils: fix build on Leopard

there are several tests run during configure, for issues that
do not occur on Darwin, that fail in an unusual fashion on Leopard.
This failure does not appear to occur on any other systems.

This patch avoids running these failing tests on Leopard.

see: #62994
closes: #66028