Re: Test Failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on SunOS-5.5.1

[Jim Meyering]

Vin Shelton <address@hidden> wrote:
> To whom it may concern:

Thanks for the quick testing and report!
What compiler did you use?

> On a SunOS-5.5.1 system (uname -a reports:
> SunOS boise 5.5.1 Generic_103640-40 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 Solaris)
> I'm getting the following test failures:
>
> FAIL: basic
> FAIL: time-1

The first two (above) are due to the fact that you
built and ran the tests on a file system of type tmpfs
that is particularly deficient.  Please try to avoid it.
Here's a relevant comment from the test output:

  failed ls ctime test -- this failure is expected at least for SunOS4.1.4
  and for tmpfs file systems on Solaris 5.5.1.

> FAIL: nl

I don't know about the above.
Can you debug it to see where/how nl is getting the segfault?

> FAIL: printf

It looks like the above is failing because this command
  ./printf '5 % +d\n' 234
outputs this:
5 +0
rather than the expected:
5 +234

Can you find out why?

> FAIL: x8

This od test failure is probably due to trouble involving
the PRI*MAX macros or to the values of ULONG_MAX or ULLONG_MAX.
It is probably using %l rather than %ll as the LONGEST_MODIFIER.
You can investigate further by checking config.h for ULLONG_MAX.
If that shows nothing defined, then please preprocess od.c with cpp
and look for definitions there.  E.g., do this:

  cd src && rm -f od.o
  make AM_CFLAGS='-E -dD' od.o && mv od.o od.i

Then search od.i for those symbols:

  grep -E 'PRI.MAX|ULLONG_MAX' od.i

I'll look at the following later.

> FAIL: pr-tests
> FAIL: ignore
> FAIL: uniq-tests