[MacPorts] #62994: various ports fail to install on Leopard due to gnulib issue: /confdir-14B---: No space left on device

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#62994: various ports fail to install on Leopard due to gnulib issue: /confdir-
14B---: No space left on device
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  Reporter:  kencu                         |      Owner:  mascguy
      Type:  defect                        |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal                        |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                         |    Version:
Resolution:                                |   Keywords:  leopard
      Port:  m4 bison findutils coreutils  |
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Comment (by barracuda156):

 Replying to [comment:67 kencu]:
 > I have hundreds and hundreds of ports built on my 10.5.8 PPC system.
 >
 > Finding a fix for this is will be palatable to everyone is hard --
 however, fixing it yourself is but a few minutes work.

 Well, I obviously have `m4` and `gettext` building and working on 10.6
 (ppc / i386) and perhaps 10.5 (unless something got broken further very
 recently), but what is a few minutes work for us, may be a stopper for
 someone else. I was in that position myself at some point, and if not for
 your detailed instructions back then, would have likely given up.

 IMO to keep support for older systems alive we need to have basic stuff
 working “out of the box”, so that we do not lose potentially interested to
 contribute people.

 > Let me see if I can get a patch pushed through. Yes -- it won't please
 everyone.

 Ken, if you mean that you are not gonna apply it for 10.6 Rosetta and
 unsupported native ppc, that is still better than having everything
 broken. Most people arguably use 10.5.8 on PowerPC, so that is the major
 thing to fix. I can survive carrying an out-of-tree patch for 10.6 ppc
 here, it does not add much of a maintenance burden.
 (Strictly speaking, the bug has nothing to do with PowerPC, but rather
 conditional on SDK and/or Xcode tools version. Same problem happens on
 10A190 i386 – natively run on CoreDuo.)

 P. S. On a side note, maybe it is easier to just update Unix tools for
 Leopard (and identical procedure will fix pre-released 10.6 too)?
 This perhaps cannot be done via Macports master, but it can be distributed
 via a pkg update (as long as licenses permit that). What do you think?

 Presumably it can fix a lot of silly errors.

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