02/02: gnu: tar: Skip faulty test.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch core-updates
in repository guix.

commit ad2e1422783000dd4224eab155ce532888aaef0b
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Feb 25 01:03:52 2018 +0100

    gnu: tar: Skip faulty test.
    
    * gnu/packages/base.scm (tar)[arguments]: Add #:make-flags.
---
 gnu/packages/base.scm | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 56b586c..2a50080 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -188,7 +188,13 @@ implementation offers several extensions over the standard 
utility.")
                        (substitute* "src/system.c"
                          (("/bin/sh")
                           (string-append bash "/bin/sh")))
-                       #t))))))
+                       #t))))
+
+      ;; Test #92 "link mismatch" expects "a/z: Not linked to a/y" but gets
+      ;; "a/y: Not linked to a/z" and fails, presumably due to differences in
+      ;; the order in which 'diff' traverses directories.  That leads to a
+      ;; test failure even though conceptually the test passes.  Skip it.
+      #:make-flags '("TESTSUITEFLAGS=-k '!link mismatch'")))
 
    ;; When cross-compiling, the 'set-shell-file-name' phase needs to be able
    ;; to refer to the target Bash.