Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Meyering" <address@hidden>
To: "Gilles Espinasse" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3


> Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Meyering" <address@hidden>
> > To: <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:04 PM
> > Subject: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3
> >
> >
> >> We're expecting to release coreutils-8.1 soon (like before the end
> >> of the week), so here's a snapshot of the latest.  This includes
> >> many improvements in gnulib, too.
> >>
> > Maybe a bit late.
>
> Thanks for testing.
>
> > Just tested that snapshot and have some failures
> > grep FAIL test_i486/20091114*/coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3-02.log
> > FAIL: rm/fail-eperm
> > FAIL: misc/pwd-long
> > FAIL: rm/fail-eperm (exit: 255)
> > FAIL: misc/pwd-long (exit: 255)
> >
> > Set with
> >  cd $(DIR_APP) && ./configure --prefix=/usr \
> >      --enable-install-program=hostname \
> >      --enable-no-install-program=kill,uptime
> >
> > Both tests fail for the same reason
> > FAIL: rm/fail-eperm (exit: 255)
> > ===============================
> >
> > fail-eperm: considering /tmp/cceXxKh6.c
> > Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at
> > ./rm/fail-eperm line 88.
> >
> > FAIL: misc/pwd-long (exit: 255)
> > ===============================
> >
> > Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at - line
73.
>
> Is some directory in your $PATH group- or world-writable?

should not
find `echo "$PATH" | sed 's/:/ /g'` -maxdepth 0 -ls
1331275    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Oct 21 23:07
/tools_i486/usr/bin
1672609    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Nov 14 17:56 /bin
1672645    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Nov 14 17:57 /usr/bin
1672640    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Nov 14 17:57 /sbin
1672648    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Nov 14 17:57
/usr/sbin
1672299   12 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        12288 Nov 14 17:42
/tools_i486/bin

I have tried to understand exactly where the script fail.
Modified the script like in the attached patch to reproduce the first part
of the perl part as I was unsure of the meaning of line 73 in pwd-long
failure message

The added part run, so the problem is later :
[chroot-i486] root:/usr/src/coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3$ make check -C tests
TESTS=misc/pwd-long VERBOSE=yes                      make: Entering
directory `/usr/src/coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3/tests'
make  check-TESTS
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3/tests'
FAIL: misc/pwd-long
=======================================================
   GNU coreutils 8.0.108-3aff3: tests/test-suite.log
=======================================================

1 of 1 test failed.

.. contents:: :depth: 2


FAIL: misc/pwd-long (exit: 255)
===============================

end of added lines
Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at - line 73.
======================================
1 of 1 test failed
See tests/test-suite.log
Please report to address@hidden
======================================
make[2]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1

Gilles

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