Re: weird make check failures

[Jim Meyering]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I keep getting these weird failures in a lot of utilties that used to
> be in sh-utils before, anyone knows whats going on?  This happens for
> me both on GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux.

> cat: /src-cvs/coreutils/tests/cut/1.I: No such file or directory
> /src-cvs/coreutils/tests/cut/cut-tests: line 57: 
> /src-cvs/coreutils/tests/cut/1.I: No such file or directory

I'll bet that happens only when you do non-srcdir builds.
That's because the testing code mistakenly expects to find those
maintainer-generated (and distributed in tarball) files in $srcdir.

For now, you can work around it by creating them where they're expected
to be: run `./configure && make distclean' in the source directory.
Then a non-srcdir build/test should work.