make check fails because of username length

[Ferdinand]

Hi,

Using coreutils-4.5.4 I came across a FAIL in make check:
The cp test "same-file" failed, with diff showing that foo, hardlink,
sl1, sl2 etc. all had one space character prefixed to them in the
$actual file. Example:
0 --rem ( foo  hardlink)  vs.
0 --rem (foo hardlink)    and
0 -bdf ( foo  sl1 -> foo  sl2 -> foo  sl2~ -> foo)  vs.
0 -bdf (foo sl1 -> foo sl2 -> foo sl2~ -> foo)

However, when I ran make check as root, no FAILs were reported. When I
checked the $actual file, the spaces weren't there.
After some testing, I noticed that this was due to the way filenames are
extracted from the ls -lG command, which makes assumptions about
username length. Since my username is 9 characters long, this error
showed up. The mv test part-symlink has the same problem.

Maybe one can reasonably assume that usernames are less than 9
characters long; if not, the following suggestion solves the issue:
Run ls with -lGg, thereby removing the username from the output, and
adapt the amount of stripped characters accordingly (delete 9 dots).

Ferdinand