Re: Bug report (as s/w requests).

[Jim Meyering]

Hugh Sasse <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> > *** block-sync-1.E      Thu Mar  9 18:50:30 2006
>> > --- block-sync-1.3      Thu Mar  9 18:50:30 2006
>> > ***************
>> > *** 1,3 ****
>> >   2+1 records in
>> >   0+1 records out
>> > ! 1 truncated records
>> > --- 1,3 ----
>> >   2+1 records in
>> >   0+1 records out
>> > ! 1 truncated record
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>> Are you using GNU make?
>
> Yes.
> GNU Make 3.80
>
>> That difference implies your test is running
>> the wrong dd binary.  That could be because
>> the PATH setting (original is in Makefile.am in that directory)
>> is not being honored by your make program.
>
> Anything else I can tell you?

Would you please run this (from the top level):

  make && env LC_ALL=C make -C tests/dd check TESTS=skip-seek

If that succeeds, then we'll know that the problem is locale-related,
making dd's use of ngettext malfunction.

If the above still fails, then please run this variant, which will
show, among other things, the output of running `dd --version':

  make && \
    env LC_ALL=C VERBOSE=yes DEBUG=yes make -C tests/dd check TESTS=skip-seek

Please make sure that the version information corresponds to
the version of the package that you're building.  I get this,
since I'm building the latest from cvs:

  make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/cu/tests/dd'
  dd (coreutils) 6.0-cvs
  ...