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

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> 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.

Then I suspect a portability problem, because if I simulate
failure of that configure-time test, "make" does not try to
build stdbuf or libstdbuf* on gnu/linux.

If you can see (looking at src/Makefile) why it's trying to build
stdbuf, we should be able to deduce where the problem lies.
Portability of gl_ADD_PROG, perhaps...

>> >
>> > 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...

Thanks for investigating!