wcwidth failure on RedHat Linux 7.3 (coreutils-6.9.91)

[Peter Fales]

I'm seeing the following gnulib test failure while building 
coreutils-6.9.91 on RedHat Linux 7.3.  I'm not sure whether folks
want to support such old systems, but just in case...

I've attached the results of the verbose make check below, but the failure
is at line 63 of gnulib-tests/test-wcwidth.c which says:

63         ASSERT (wcwidth (0x2060) == 0);

The value that is actually being returned is -1.


Here's the complete log:

make  check-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
make  libtests.a test-alloca-opt test-argmatch test-arpa_inet test-atexit 
test-binary-io test-c-ctype test-c-strcasecmp test-c-strncasecmp 
test-canonicalize test-closein test-md5 test-dirname test-fcntl test-fflush 
test-filenamecat test-fpending test-fpurge test-freadahead test-freading 
test-frexp test-frexpl test-fseeko test-fseterr test-ftello test-getaddrinfo 
test-getdelim test-getline test-gettimeofday test-i-ring test-iconv 
test-inttypes test-isnan test-isnanf test-isnanl-nolibm test-lseek test-malloca 
test-math test-mbscasecmp test-netinet_in test-printf-frexp test-printf-frexpl 
test-signbit test-snprintf test-stat-time test-stdbool test-stdint test-stdio 
test-stdlib test-strerror test-string test-sys_socket test-sys_stat 
test-sys_time test-time test-unistd test-uc_width test-vasnprintf 
test-vasprintf-posix test-vasprintf test-vfprintf-posix test-vprintf-posix 
test-wchar test-wctype test-wcwidth test-xfprintf-posix test-xprintf-posix 
test-xstrtoimax test-xstrtol test-xstrtoul test-xstrtoumax test-yesno
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
make[3]: `libtests.a' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-alloca-opt' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-argmatch' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-arpa_inet' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-atexit' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-binary-io' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-c-ctype' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-c-strcasecmp' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-c-strncasecmp' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-canonicalize' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-closein' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-md5' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-dirname' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-fcntl' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-fflush' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-filenamecat' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-fpending' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-fpurge' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-freadahead' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-freading' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-frexp' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-frexpl' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-fseeko' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-fseterr' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-ftello' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-getaddrinfo' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-getdelim' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-getline' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-gettimeofday' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-i-ring' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-iconv' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-inttypes' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-isnan' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-isnanf' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-isnanl-nolibm' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-lseek' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-malloca' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-math' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-mbscasecmp' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-netinet_in' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-printf-frexp' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-printf-frexpl' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-signbit' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-snprintf' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-stat-time' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-stdbool' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-stdint' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-stdio' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-stdlib' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-strerror' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-string' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-sys_socket' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-sys_stat' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-sys_time' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-time' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-unistd' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-uc_width' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-vasnprintf' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-vasprintf-posix' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-vasprintf' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-vfprintf-posix' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-vprintf-posix' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-wchar' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-wctype' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-wcwidth' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-xfprintf-posix' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-xprintf-posix' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-xstrtoimax' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-xstrtol' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-xstrtoul' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-xstrtoumax' is up to date.
make[3]: `test-yesno' is up to date.
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
make  check-TESTS
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
FAIL: test-wcwidth
======================================
1 of 1 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
======================================
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/opt/exp/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/coreutils/gnulib-tests'

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Peter Fales
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