Re: FAIL: same-file

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks for reporting it.  Can you please try the following patch?
I haven't installed it, but plan to if you say it works.

2006-06-11  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * tests/cp/same-file: Execute 'ls' in the C locale, so
        that it uses POSIX time stamp formats.  Problem reported
        by John Nixon in
        <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00062.html>.

--- tests/cp/same-file.~1.39.~  2004-06-23 08:07:04.000000000 -0700
+++ tests/cp/same-file  2006-06-11 00:45:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ for args in 'foo symlink' 'symlink foo' 
        # and put brackets around the output.
        test -s _err && echo "[`sed 's/^[^:][^:]*:/cp:/' _err`]"
        # Strip off all but the file names.
-       ls="`ls -gG --ignore=_err . \
+       ls="`LC_ALL=C ls -gG --ignore=_err . \
            | sed \
                -e '/^total /d' \
                -e 's/^[^ ]*  *[^ ]*  *[^ ]*  *[^ ]*  *[^ ]*  *[^ ]*  *//'`"