Re: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab on Alpine Linux

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-08-27 18:16, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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).

Perhaps it would be a good idea to release an updated tarball in the 
next few days, so we can test again with the latest patches applied, 
just to make sure there are no regressions.

> > 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