On 06/26/2014 08:54 AM, Jeff Sheen wrote: > Eric, > > I know what is causing the issue. > > I tried a fresh Mavericks install with just XCode 5.1.1 and Macports installed, and encountered the exact same problem. > > I then realised that the only remaining difference between my environment and a vanilla environment, is that my development directories are on a FAT32 disk. Thanks for the analysis. FAT is a notoriously bad file system, for how non-POSIX compliant it is. > > Indeed, the Autotools configuration worked as expected with a copy of the source tree stored on an HFS disk. > > Is it expected behaviour that GNU Autotools are incompatible with some file systems natively supported by the OS? > Not entirely expected, although it may just be a bug in the testsuite (for expecting too much from the environment) rather than a problem with the just-built autoconf is still usable. But to avoid test failures, we'd need patches from someone that is actively in such a setup (I don't have access to such a system at the moment, so it would be a while to wait if you are expecting me to try and come up with such patches). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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