Re: coreutils-6.9.90 fail 1/84 (help-version) on i386-apple-darwin9.1.0

[Bob Proulx]

Elias Pipping wrote:
> I've attached the help-version.log

Thanks for doing all of this testing.  Here is the failure reported in
the help-version.log that you sent.

> + prog=ginstall
> + eval 'args=$ginstall_args'
> ++ args='in-63884 in2-63884'
> + /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.9.90/src/ginstall in-63884 in2-63884
> /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.9.90/src/ginstall: setting permissions for 
> `in2-63884': Invalid argument
> + echo FAIL: ginstall
> FAIL: ginstall
> + fail=1
> + rm -rf in-63884 in2-63884 out-63884 dir-63884

The test is creating a file in-$$ (in-63884 in the above) and then
running ginstall (the just built install executable is always named
ginstall) and this is failing.

Can you try this:

  echo > foo
  ./src/ginstall foo bar

I expect that to fail for you because the test is failing that same
operation.  If so then it would be necessary to debug why.  I am not
familiar with your system type but if it is possible to trace system
calls that would be most useful.  On my system I would use strace to
do this.

  strace ./src/ginstall foo bar

Does your system have something similar?  I expect to see that one of
the acl system calls is failing.  Could you try this and send the
output back to the mailing list?  (I don't think it should be too
large.)

> PS: sorry about the double-post -- probably should have killed my smtp
> client instead of mutt when i noticed i was sending out a 2.2MB file :/

At 2M plus these files are quite large.  Even the last
help-version.log at 121K was quite large.  In the future would it be
possible for you to gzip them before attaching them?  That would
reduce the size of the mail that gets sent to everyone quite
substantially.  Thanks.

Thanks again for doing this testing.

Bob