bug#29266: gzip-1.8.41 test results: help-version and hard links

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> The Haiku failure is due to gzexe failing due to that system's lack of
>> hard link support:
>>
>> + eval 'env $i  in-6369 < $tmp_in > $tmp_out'
>> ++ env gzexe in-6369
>> in-6369:        -15.4%
>> ln: failed to create hard link 'in-6369~' => 'in-6369': Operation not 
>> supported
>> /boot/home/gzip-1.8.41-9d3bb-dirty/build/tests/../gzexe: cannot backup
>> in-6369 as
>> in-6369~
>> + echo FAIL: gzexe
>> FAIL: gzexe
>> + fail=1
>
> Why does gzexe expect that hard links work? Even on Linux, some file systems
> do not support hard links.
>
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=vfat.img bs=1048576 count=100
> $ mkfs.vfat vfat.img
> $ sudo mount -o loop vfat.img /mnt
> $ cd /mnt
> $ sudo bash
> # tar xfz ~/gzip-1.8.41-9d3bb-dirty.tar.gz
> # cd gzip-1.8.41-9d3bb-dirty
> # ./configure
> # make
> # make check

Thanks, Bruno.
Here is a proposed patch:

gzexe-ln-vs-haiku.diff
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