Re: coreutils-6.12.29-a16be - FAIL: misc/truncate-fail-diag.log

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> Poor Yorick wrote:
>>>  From: Pádraig Brady <>
>>>  Sent: 2008-06-21 14:19
>>>
>>>  Poor Yorick wrote:
>>>  > Building latest snapshot of coreutils, coreutils-6.12.29-a16be, on SunOS 
>>> 5.9,
>>>  > with gcc-4.2.2 and gnu ld:
>>>  >
>>>  >     FAIL: misc/truncate-fail-diag.log
>>>
>>>  This is a bug in SunOS which is worked around in later gnulibs.
>>>  Please try the latest snapshot just released.
>>>
>>
>> Same test failed with coreutils-6.12.66-c1aab.  truncate-fail-diag.log 
>> attached.
>
> Oops, this snapshot doesn't seem to contain the version of gnulib with the 
> fix:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-06/msg00121.html
> I presume it will be included soon.

Oh!  Thanks for pointing that out.
I see that coreutils doesn't even use gnulib's open module.
I presumed it was being pulled in via some other dependency,
but it's not, so I'll probably add it manually.

New snapshot coming up shortly.