Re: coreutils-6.11: misc tests are PATH dependent

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> However, I have a big patch (nearly complete) that revamps the way tests
> are run, and I've just confirmed that with it, "make check" works fine,
> even with an abuse-inviting $PATH.

Great! Thanks.

> BTW, those thousands of lines are remarkably similar to what you
> reported here for MacOS X 10.5:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13270/focus=13273
> minus the failures, of course.  So I guess you ran those tests with
> "." early in your PATH, too.

I ran them with "." in the PATH. But when I run the entire build and check
with
  PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
none of the test failures disappears.

Bruno