Re: test failures on AIX 5.3: misc/sort-merge, test-copy-acl.sh

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm getting the following test failures on AIX 5.3.
> They are using current git coreutils and gnulib, and
> gettext 0.16.1 IIRC.  The UNKNOWN-dirty is because I
> must like it that way, I guess.  ;-)

Thanks for the report!
...
> nmerge-yes...
> nmerge-no...
> sort-merge: test nmerge-no: stderr mismatch, comparing nmerge-no.E (actual) 
> and nmerge-no.1 (expected)
> *** nmerge-no.E Sat Aug  2 14:36:08 2008
> --- nmerge-no.1 Sat Aug  2 14:36:08 2008
> ***************
> *** 1 ****
> ! sort: cannot create temporary file: : No such file or directory
> --- 1 ----
> ! sort: cannot create temporary file
> batch-size...
> Can't remove directory 
> /home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests/sort-merge.tmp-1XVm: 
> Device busy at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/File/Temp.pm line 858
> gmake[2]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1

Sounds like a file is being left open, and
that inhibits directory removal on that system.

Does this change help?  It makes sort use a *hopefully*-nonexistent
temporary directory that is not "."-relative.

diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-merge b/tests/misc/sort-merge
index fb7c63c..27b014b 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort-merge
+++ b/tests/misc/sort-merge
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ my @inputs = (+(map{{IN=> {"empty$_"=> ''}}}1..3), {IN=> 
{foo=> "foo\n"}});

 my $big_input = "aaa\n" x 1024;

-# don't need to check for existence, since we're running in a temp dir
-my $badtmp = 'does/not/exist';
+my $badtmp = "/does/not/exist-$$";
+-e $badtmp
+  and (warn "skipping this test: $badtmp exists"), exit 77;

 # 2^64+1
 my $bigint = "18446744073709551617";

If that doesn't help, please remove 'nmerge-no's ERR_SUBST line and
rerun the test -- that might reveal a more useful diagnostic in the diffs.

---------------
Regarding the ACL failure,
I don't have access to any AIX systems, so if you
can give a little more info, that'd help.

I.e., in gnulib-tests/test-sameacls.c, there are two blocks:

  #elif HAVE_ACLX_GET /* AIX */
  ...
  #elif HAVE_STATACL /* older AIX */
  ...

Knowing which you're using and where/how (lineno/errno value)
it's failing would help.