[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 ballapete):

 In `m4` the `configure` script removes all scrap from the test on lines
 #36417 and  #36418. Just before line #36417 one can insert a line like

 {{{
 cp -v conftest.c /var/tmp/TestDirDepth.c
 }}}

 to safe the test programme for further use in order to examine some
 aspects of Mac OS X. I did that on `Mac OS X 10.4.11, PPC Tiger`. It was
 compiled this way (recorded in `config.log`; search for the text string
 "4k"):

 {{{
 /opt/local/bin/gcc-apple-4.2 -std=gnu99 -o conftest -pipe -Os -arch ppc
 -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names
 -arch ppc conftest.c
 }}}

 Now C programmers could extend the code, make the programme output which
 is its current working directory in the for loop and how long the pathname
 has grown, make it output what it tries to remove from where before it
 enters the while loop. And reporting the return value of this first
 `rmdir()` call. By running it from a directory whose name is made longer
 by one character (or digit) every time before launching it, we can make it
 fail at some instance, i.e. leave that `confdir-14B---` directory tree
 because it has become too long for `rm` (or `rmdir()`?) to remove the
 whole tree. It might work better by adding a routine that reads that
 subdirectory name from command line, or that creates in another loop
 automatically new temporary names with growing length to accelerate the
 tests, to fail without human interference.

 The `PPC Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.8` version will be delivered some time in
 the near future, when upgrading MacPorts on Tiger will have finished (and
 also reporting new bugs, `npth 1.7`).

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