Re: make check "failure" on Itanium HPUX

[Jim Meyering]

mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:

> mwoehlke wrote:
>> This is a little odd... 'make' exits non-zero when doing 'make
>> check' (help-version) on Itanium Linux, but the tests all seem to
>> pass. Here is the relevant verbose output:
>> [snip]
>
> ...and similarly on HPUX, although the tests pass, 'make check' just
> *fails*, and in this case I'm not seeing why. I'm attaching the log in
> case anyone spots something I didn't. (Maybe it's the same problem?)
>
> Same versions of bash and make here (both built from clean sources).
...

This bit looks like the cause:
(do you have "/usr/bin/posix" in your shell's search path?)

>       t=ls-files.$$;                                          \
>       (cd . && ls -1 *.x) | sed 's/\.x$//' | LC_ALL=C sort > $t;\
>       echo base64.1 basename.1 cat.1 chgrp.1 chmod.1 chown.1 chroot.1 cksum.1 
> comm.1 cp.1 csplit.1 cut.1 date.1 dd.1 df.1 dir.1 dircolors.1 dirname.1 du.1 
> echo.1 env.1 expand.1 expr.1 factor.1 false.1 fmt.1 fold.1 groups.1 head.1 
> hostid.1 hostname.1 id.1 install.1 join.1 kill.1 link.1 ln.1 logname.1 ls.1 
> md5sum.1 mkdir.1 mkfifo.1 mknod.1 mv.1 nice.1 nl.1 nohup.1 od.1 paste.1 
> pathchk.1 pinky.1 pr.1 printenv.1 printf.1 ptx.1 pwd.1 readlink.1 rm.1 
> rmdir.1 seq.1 sha1sum.1 sha224sum.1 sha256sum.1 sha384sum.1 sha512sum.1 
> shred.1 shuf.1 sleep.1 sort.1 split.1 stat.1 stty.1 su.1 sum.1 sync.1 tac.1 
> tail.1 tee.1 test.1 touch.1 tr.1 true.1 tsort.1 tty.1 uname.1 unexpand.1 
> uniq.1 unlink.1 uptime.1 users.1 vdir.1 wc.1 who.1 whoami.1 yes.1 | tr -s ' ' 
> '\n' | sed 's/\.1$//'     \
>         | LC_ALL=C sort | diff - $t || { rm $t; exit 1; };            \
>       rm $t
> /usr/bin/posix/sh[5]: 12357 Memory fault(coredump)
> make[2]: *** [check-x-vs-1] Error 1