[Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.21] testsuite: 56 67 failed

[Tomohiro Suzuki]

Hi, I'm getting some "make check" failures on tar-1.21.
tar-1.20 doesn't have the problem.

OS:Solaris 10 on SPARC

I attach the testsuite.log.

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# make check
.....
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/tar-1.21/tests'
/bin/bash ./testsuite
## ------------------------ ##
## GNU tar 1.21 test suite. ##
## ------------------------ ##
  1: tar version                                     ok
  2: decompressing from stdin                        ok
  3: mixing options                                  ok
  4: interspersed options                            ok
  5: files-from: empty entries                       ok
  6: files-from: 0-separated file without -0         ok
  7: tar --index-file=FILE --file=-                  ok
  8: tar cvf -                                       ok
  9: append                                          ok
 10: appending files with long names                 ok
 11: append vs. create                               ok
 12: exclude                                         ok
 13: deleting a member after a big one               ok
 14: deleting a member from stdin archive            ok
 15: deleting members with long names                ok
 16: deleting a large last member                    ok
 17: deleting non-existing member                    ok
 18: extract over an existing directory              ok
 19: extracting symlinks over an existing file       ok
 20: extraction loops                                ok
 21: extract + fnmatch                               ok
 22: extracting selected members from pax            ok
 23: mode of extracted directories                   ok
 24: extracting symlinks to a read-only dir          ok
 25: gzip                                            ok
 26: incremental                                     ok
 27: restore broken symlinks from incremental        ok
 28: restoring timestamps from incremental           ok
 29: --listed for individual files                   ok
 30: working --listed                                ok
 31: renamed files in incrementals                   ok
 32: proper icontents initialization                 ok
 33: renamed dirs in incrementals                    ok
 34: move between hierarchies                        ok
 35: cyclic renames                                  ok
 36: renamed directory containing subdirectories     ok
 37: renamed subdirectories                          ok
 38: changed file types in incrementals              ok
 39: ignfail                                         skipped (ignfail.at:26)
 40: link count gt 2                                 ok
 41: long names in V7 archives                       ok
 42: long file names divisible by block size         ok
 43: ustar: unsplittable file name                   ok
 44: ustar: unsplittable path name                   ok
 45: ustar: splitting long names                     ok
 46: multivolume dumps from pipes                    ok
 47: skipping a straddling member                    ok
 48: MV archive & long filenames                     ok
 49: split directory members in a MV archive         ok
 50: Restoring after an out of sync volume           ok
 51: Multivolumes with L=record_size                 ok
 52: old archives                                    ok
 53: recurse                                         ok
 54: working -C with --same-order                    ok
 55: multiple -C options                             ok
 56: short records                                   FAILED (shortrec.at:28)
 57: sparse files                                    ok
 58: extracting sparse file over a pipe              ok
 59: storing sparse files > 8G                       ok
 60: sparse files in MV archives                     ok
 61: sparse files in PAX MV archives, v.0.0          ok
 62: sparse files in PAX MV archives, v.0.1          ok
 63: sparse files in PAX MV archives, v.1.0          ok
 64: update unchanged directories                    ok
 65: volume                                          ok
 66: volume header size                              skipped (volsize.at:32)
 67: compressed format recognition                   FAILED (comprec.at:25)
 68: short input files                               ok
 69: updating short archives                         ok
 70: truncate                                        ok
 71: grow                                            ok
 72: gtarfail                                        skipped (gtarfail.at:26)
 73: gtarfail2                                       skipped (gtarfail2.at:26)
 74: multi-fail                                      skipped (multi-fail.at:26)
 75: ustar-big-2g                                    skipped 
(ustar-big-2g.at:26)
 76: ustar-big-8g                                    skipped 
(ustar-big-8g.at:26)
 77: pax-big-10g                                     skipped (pax-big-10g.at:26)

## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: 69 tests were run,
2 failed unexpectedly.
8 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `tests/testsuite.log' and all information you think might help:

   To: <address@hidden>
   Subject: [GNU tar 1.21] testsuite: 56 67 failed


You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which
case the test suite provides a good starting point.  Its output may
be found below `tests/testsuite.dir'.

make[2]: *** [check-local] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/tar-1.21/tests'
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/tar-1.21/tests'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
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