Re: coreutils 6.11 on MacOS X 10.5 (1)

[Bruno Haible]

With coreutils-6.11 I see the same failures, plus 4 additional ones.

> FAIL: help-version.log
+ FAIL: tty-eof.log
+ FAIL: help-version.log (exit: 1)
+ FAIL: ginstall
+ FAIL: tty-eof.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: parent-perm.log
> FAIL: file-perm-race.log
> FAIL: parent-perm-race.log
> FAIL: existing-perm-race.log
> FAIL: backup-dir.log
> FAIL: src-base-dot.log
> FAIL: preserve-2.log
> FAIL: fail-perm.log
> FAIL: cp-parents.log
> FAIL: parent-perm.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: file-perm-race.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: parent-perm-race.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: existing-perm-race.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: backup-dir.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: src-base-dot.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: preserve-2.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: fail-perm.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: cp-parents.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: basic-1.log
> FAIL: create-leading.log
> FAIL: basic-1.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: create-leading.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: misc.log
> FAIL: misc.log (exit: 1)

Looking at it one by one:


1) cp/parent-perm.log failed like this:

+ . /../umask-check
./parent-perm: line 27: /../umask-check: No such file or directory

Apparently $abs_srcdir expanded to empty. This is normal, because cp/Makefile
has a TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable which takes care to set abs_top_builddir,
abs_top_srcdir, srcdir, top_srcdir as environment variables, but abs_srcdir
is missing.

Up to you to decide whether $abs_srcdir is a typo, or this variable is
missing from tests/check.mk.


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