bug#11150: getlogin test failure

[Jim Meyering]

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> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Matt Burgess" <address@hidden>
>> À: address@hidden
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Envoyé: Lundi 2 Avril 2012 00:34:51
>> Objet: bug#11150: getlogin test failure
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The coreutils-8.16 release brought in the getlogin gnulib module.
>>
>> When running through the testsuite, test-getlogin.c fails for me on a
>> GNU/Linux system.  There are a couple of different failure scenarios:
>>
>
> I am surprised nobody answered to this test failure that I fixed on my
> build system using the same sed as LFS book.
>
> Is this not reproductible out of LFS way to build?
>
> I checked gnulib tree to see nothing changed into test-getlogin.c
> since 2012-01-01.

Thanks for the follow-up.

If you run the root-only tests as recommended in README,
does that test still fail?