Re: coreutils-4.5.9: universal failure on HP Itanium-2 system

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I attempted builds of coreutils-4.5.9 on
>
>       Intel Itanium 2 (2CPUs, 1GHz, 8GB RAM, 36GB disk)
>       GNU/Linux 2.4.18-e.12smp [Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS 
> (Derry)]
>
> with gcc (2.96), gcc3 (3.0.4), and Intel ecc (Version 7.0, Build
> 20030213), the latter in both C99 and C++98 mode, and got universal
> failure.
>
> With gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0.4, compilation succeeded, but there were
> test failures:
>
>       ./8gb: line 36: 22532 Segmentation fault      du -ab big >out
>       cmp: EOF on out
>       0a1
>       > 8589934592    big
>       FAIL: 8gb
>       out exp differ: char 1, line 1
>       0a1,3
>       ...
>       FAIL: basic
>       FAIL: restore-wd
>       ./basic: line 35: 22553 Segmentation fault      du -a a >out

Thanks for reporting that.
Would you please see if the patch here fixes it?

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/198