Re: [squid-users] configure: error: ls -t appears to fail

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Can you be more specific on which sanity check is broken?

on lines 833 to 870. i have copied those relevant lines into a script of its
own and ran it... and it passes. so there must be something higher in the
configure script which breaks this test. (so, its not actually the test which
is broken but that the configure script might set something higher up which
breaks the test)

sorry i can't be more specific... i never quite figured out what *exactly*
broke this test, but lots of people have gotten the same failure on configure
scripts made from older autoconf's on various platforms... a quick google for
the subject of this mail will confirm that. it might not even be a coreutils
issue.

i'd suggest you just remove that check from the configure script as it is
kinda stupid anyway. a quick way is to type

  cp configure configure.orig
  head -832 configure.orig > configure
  tail +871 configure.orig >> configure

cheers,
Sam

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