coreutils-6.0: test failures on Solaris 7

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

On Solaris 7, building with "cc -O", I get two test failures:

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chmod/setgid fails

Here are details:

$ VERBOSE=yes gmake check TESTS=setgid
gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/opt/coreutils-6.0/tests/chmod'
+ chmod --version 
chmod (GNU coreutils) 6.0
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This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
+ . ./../envvar-check 
as_unset=unset
envvar_check_failed=0
vars=
  BLOCKSIZE
  BLOCK_SIZE
  CDPATH
  DF_BLOCK_SIZE
  DU_BLOCK_SIZE
  LS_BLOCK_SIZE
  POSIXLY_CORRECT
  SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX
  TIME_STYLE
  VERSION_CONTROL

+ unset BLOCKSIZE 
+ eval test "${BLOCKSIZE+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset BLOCK_SIZE 
+ eval test "${BLOCK_SIZE+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset CDPATH 
+ eval test "${CDPATH+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset DF_BLOCK_SIZE 
+ eval test "${DF_BLOCK_SIZE+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset DU_BLOCK_SIZE 
+ eval test "${DU_BLOCK_SIZE+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset LS_BLOCK_SIZE 
+ eval test "${LS_BLOCK_SIZE+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset POSIXLY_CORRECT 
+ eval test "${POSIXLY_CORRECT+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX 
+ eval test "${SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset TIME_STYLE 
+ eval test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ unset VERSION_CONTROL 
+ eval test "${VERSION_CONTROL+set}" = set 
+ test  = set 
+ test  = 1 
+ . ./../lang-default 
+ eval LANG=; export LANG 
LANG=
+ export LANG 
+ eval LANGUAGE=; export LANGUAGE 
LANGUAGE=
+ export LANGUAGE 
+ eval LC_ALL=; export LC_ALL 
LC_ALL=
+ export LC_ALL 
+ eval LC_COLLATE=; export LC_COLLATE 
LC_COLLATE=
+ export LC_COLLATE 
+ eval LC_CTYPE=; export LC_CTYPE 
LC_CTYPE=
+ export LC_CTYPE 
+ eval LC_MESSAGES=; export LC_MESSAGES 
LC_MESSAGES=
+ export LC_MESSAGES 
+ eval LC_NUMERIC=; export LC_NUMERIC 
LC_NUMERIC=
+ export LC_NUMERIC 
+ eval LC_TIME=; export LC_TIME 
LC_TIME=
+ export LC_TIME 
+ pwd 
pwd=/opt/coreutils-6.0/tests/chmod
tmp=setgid.5336
+ trap status=$?; cd $pwd; rm -rf $tmp && exit $status 0 
+ trap (exit $?); exit 1 2 13 15 
framework_failure=0
+ cd . 
+ pwd 
abs_srcdir=/opt/coreutils-6.0/tests/chmod
+ cd /opt/coreutils-6.0/tests/chmod 
+ mkdir setgid.5336 
+ cd setgid.5336 
+ umask 0 
+ mkdir d 
+ chmod g+s d 
+ test 0 = 1 
fail=0
+ chmod 755 d 
+ ls -ld d 
fail=1
+ exit 1 
+ exit 1 
status=1
+ cd /opt/coreutils-6.0/tests/chmod 
+ rm -rf setgid.5336 
+ exit 1 
FAIL: setgid
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1 of 1 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
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gmake[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1

The failure is because "chmod g+s d" does nothing here. The current
directory is mounted from a NAS NFS server that ignores requests to set
the stick-group bit on directories in chmod (even if using the native
non-GNU /bin/chmod, even when I'm the owner of the directory and
the group of the directory is my original group). The only way I've
found to create a directory with a setgid bit set on this system is
through "mkdir" inside a directory that has the sticky bit already set,
followed by an "mv" to where I want to have it. Does someone know a
better alternative?

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ls-2/tests fails
See attached screenshot.

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