Re: coreutils-6.9.91 released (bug-fix-only)

[Bauke Jan Douma]

I just got around to building this yesterday. Without having much time
to devote to testing, I noted a few minor things.

$> uname -a
Linux skyscraper 2.6.23.11 #1 SMP Sun Dec 16 11:54:12 CET 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

./configure \
--disable-assert \
--enable-no-install-program="groups id kill su uptime hostname arch"

configure --help sez:
#   --enable-no-install-program=PROG_LIST
#                           do NOT install the programs in PROG_LIST
#                           (comma-separated, default: arch hostname su)

I think the latter should be changed into:
        (comma-separated, default: arch,hostname,su)
I initially built having spaces instead of comma's.

$> RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=1 make -k check

First time around I got two fails running this:

FAIL: groups-version.log
FAIL: preserve-gid.log

Hmm, I'm not even installing groups, as specified in the configure
option...

$> cat groups-version.log
FAIL: groups-version.log (exit: 1)
==================================

--- out 2007-12-20 11:58:58.400905662 +0100
+++ exp 2007-12-20 11:58:58.401905617 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-id (GNU coreutils) 6.9.91
+id (GNU coreutils) 6.9+
 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
+License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

$> cat preserve-gid.log
FAIL: preserve-gid.log (exit: 1)
================================

cp: cannot open `a0' for reading: Permission denied


After I noticed the --enable-no-install-program list needed to be comma
separated, I did a make distclean, followed by:
./configure \
--disable-assert \
--enable-no-install-program="groups,id,kill,su,uptime,hostname,arch"

After the build, then once again did the make check:

Hmm, now I have three fails:
FAIL: groups-version.log
FAIL: preserve-gid.log
FAIL: test-getaddrinfo

I think this latter run must have been while being offline.

Anyway, I did some other rebuilds, always after make distclean, and one
time I also noted a fail on one of the infloop tests, either
./tests/ls/infloop.log or ./tests/tail-2/infloop-1.  I didn't jot that
down, so I can't tell which one it was.  I couldn't reproduce that very
quickly after that (doing make distclean, configure, make, make check).

After that, wiped out the entire coreutils directory, did a fresh
build, and got only the two fails as noted above.

bjd