bug#14024: Test failure in coreutils 8.13

[Ellis N. Thomas]

        Test failure in coreutils 8.13

To: <address@hidden>

1 Background

	The release used was NOT the latest, so it is quite likely that these  
matters
have been previously addressed.  On the other hand, it is possible that
installation has not been attempted for this actual Unix version.

Running Mac OS X:

  System Version:       Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
  Kernel Version:       Darwin 9.8.0
  >uname -mpv
  Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009;  
root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

        The reason for installing 8.13 was that version 8.21 from the ftp area
(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/) was an xz version and there seemed  
to be
no support for that format on this machine.  The latest gz was 8.13 from
Sep 2011, so also downloaded version 8.13, and proceeded to install  
this.

        This problem was formerly included in bug#13912, but has now been
split off from other topics covered there.


2 An error reported by make check.

        Tried `make check'.  Ran to completion, recording one failure

  FAIL: install/install-C

There was also a log in tests/test-suite.log, but it seemed to be  
removed later
by make clean.

        The `make installcheck' has not been done.  If it is of help to you,
then this can be done, or partially done, to identify the exact failure.


3 Test failure reported in README

        There is a test failure in 'make check' reported in README concerning
Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1).  This concerns ACL support, and suggests  
using
--disable-acl.

        This machine has Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Darwin 9.8.0).  The 'make check' was
performed without having done --disable-acl, but the "numerous  
failures" stated
did not arise, although there was one error (see previous section).   
The tests
were done as a normal user (not root), but having the privilege to use  
sudo (not
used at this point).  It is not clear whether or not the FAIL above  
was one of those
with Darwin 9.1.

        The different effect for this Mac version might or might not be of
relevance to Gnu developers!


4 Conclusion

	The config.log file is available (5.3MB), plus config.status (96kB).   
There
is also a file from redirecting standard output during the run of  
configure (60kB).

        If extra information about the matters reported above would be of
value please contact:

        address@hidden

Ellis N. Thomas/21-Mar-2013