Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

[Jim Meyering]

mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ uname -srvmpio
> Darwin 8.6.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.1: Tue Mar  7 16:55:45 PST 2006;
> root:xnu-792.9.22.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 iMac4,1 Darwin
>
> Ah, but it's also a much newer Darwin... so...
>
>> I'm working on building test output (including verbose) for the
>> entire suite for Darwin PowerPC (the same machine I did the last
>> test on).
>
> Ok, I have the 'check' output; it is 6 files (one master, five
> individual failed tests with VERBOSE=yes) and 43k. .tar.bz2'd it is 6k.
> Which form is preferred?

Best is to make it available via the web and just post the URL.
Failing that, send it to the list, and Cc me, in case
the list software removes your attachment.

> Also 'pinky' and 'help-version' failed; I couldn't figure out how to run
> these by themselves and figured these two probably weren't as important
> as the rm, cp, mv, and chmod failures (and the fifth was du).

Yes, running the help-version test all by itself is a little tricky:

    cd tests
    VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS=help-version SUBDIRS=