Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

[Eric Blake]

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> In that case, the configure-time check for is-an-ELF-system
> must be failing on cygwin:

No:

configure:43745: checking whether this is an ELF system
configure:43761: result: no

But there might be some missing holes where 'make check' tries to build stdbuf 
without regards to the result of the configure results.

> >
> > I'm now running 'make -k check', and will try to spot any obvious problems.

So far, I'm seeing a suspicious failure:

tests/misc/factor.log:
factor (GNU coreutils) 7.4.121-ea5b7
...
z...
factor: test z: stderr mismatch, comparing z.E (actual) and z.1 (expected)
*** z.E Fri Aug 14 10:36:48 2009
--- z.1 Fri Aug 14 10:36:48 2009
***************
*** 1,2 ****
! factor: unknown option -- 1
  Try `factor --help' for more information.
--- 1,2 ----
! factor: invalid option -- 1
  Try `factor --help' for more information.
cont...

I'm not sure whether that might be related to the getopt vs. getopt-gnu change 
though (I've been building incrementally, and may have picked up some state 
where cygwin's getopt snuck into usage for a while; I'm going to repeat with a 
pristine bootstrap to see if the problem still persists).

The test is still running.  Meanwhile, there are a number of failures probably 
due to the fact that cygwin Admin users can read and delete files that are 
otherwise unreadable from POSIX permission standpoint (such as rm/rm1).  But 
this is no different than in the past; I've been meaning to find time to write 
some sort of test filter that checks for superuser privileges to skip these 
sorts of tests, and I can also try and figure out how to repeat the testsuite 
run under a different user without Admin rights.  Again, don't hold up the 
release waiting for me (I've had a lot on my plate lately on other fronts, and 
I maintain the cygwin port of coreutils so whatever doesn't make it upstream 
will still make it by the time I complete the cygwin packaging).

-- 
Eric Blake