Re: Test Failed

[Bob Proulx]

Ruben Cheng wrote:
> I run the make -k check and the result was ...

Thanks for running those.  Please run some more command for us too.
This will get us more detailed debugging information on just those
tests.

> FAIL: close-stdout

  env DEBUG=yes VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/misc TESTS=close-stdout > 
close-stdout.out 2>&1

> FAIL: no-create-missing

  env DEBUG=yes VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/touch TESTS=no-create-missing > 
no-create-missing.out 2>&1

> What could be the source of this two failed tests ?.

You should be able to see in that output the shell commands being
traced and this should give us good clues as to what is going on.

> This source is being compiled under RedHat Linux 7.0, kernel 2.2.24. I'm
> using gcc 3.3.3, gmake 3.80

At a guess I would say that your kernel is quite respectably old and
the system exec(2) call has changed since then.

Bob