Re: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab on Alpine Linux

[Pádraig Brady]

On 27/08/2023 17:06, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Perhaps 'sleep' is a shell builtin here which is confusing things?
>
> Yes:
> $ type sleep
> sleep is a shell builtin
>
> > Does the following help (I don't have easy access to an alpine system):
>
> > diff --git a/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh b/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh
> > index 3ffb7b0b1..f4f12136a 100755
> > --- a/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh
> > +++ b/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh
> > @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ for prg in $built_programs; do
> >        '[' | expr | stty )
> >          continue;;
> >        # Wrap some utilities known by the shell by env.
> > -    echo | false | kill | printf | pwd | test | true )
> > +    echo | false | kill | printf | pwd | sleep | test | true )
> >          prg="env $prg";;
> >      esac
> >      checkprg $prg
>
> Yes. With this change, the failure disappears.

Cool. Applied (as well as all your other coreutils and gnulib changes).

> And the other one as well(!).
> Instead, a new failure appears (!!):
>    FAIL: tests/cp/preserve-mode
>
> This is reproducible, not spurious: I ran "make check" 3 times, 3 times the
> same result.
>
> Find attached tests/cp/preserve-mode.log.

There is some confusion here.
That looks to be the same failure as analyzed before.

cheers,
Pádraig