Re: Coreutils 7.2 test failure on Slackware Linux

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:46:37AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Brother Railgun of Reason wrote:
> > Reporting as requested by testsuite:
> >    GNU coreutils 7.2: gnulib-tests/test-suite.log
> > 1 of 122 tests failed.  (15 tests were not run).
> > .. contents:: :depth: 2
> > FAIL: test-ftello.sh.log (exit: 1)
> > ==================================
> > test-ftello.c:119: assertion failed
> > Aborted
> >
> > babylon5:alaric:~:6 $ uname -a
> > Linux babylon5 2.4.34 #2 Thu Jan 18 23:47:39 EST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> > babylon5:alaric:~:7 $ gcc --version
> > gcc (GCC) 4.1.1
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> However, this failure is technically regarding part of gnulib,
> so I've Cc'd its mailing list.
> 
> Since you're using 2.4.34, I wonder what version of glibc
> you are using.  That is particularly relevant to many of
> gnulib's stdio-related tests.

I'm using glibc-2.3.2 on this machine, for the time being.  (I plan to 
completely reinstall it shortly, after I get just a few more services 
migrated off it.)


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