Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.4.90 regression test failed on IRIX 6.5, and vsnprintf() is not portable

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Harald,

Harald Koenig <address@hidden> wrote:

> a)
> DEC Alpha OSF1-4.0 and Solaris 5.5.1 don't have vsnprintf()
> which breaks tar when linking lib/argp-fmtstream.o.

Thanks, I'll fix it.

> and here is the diff of stdout of listed02.sh which breaks the test:
[..]
> do you have an idea, why this only happens on IRIX 6.5 ?

It has been reported that listed02.sh should pipe tar output to
sort, since the order of appearance of each particular warning message
is not fixed, it depends on the order in which readdir returns directory
entries. This leads to the described failure. Modified version of the
testcase is available from

http://sv.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/tar/tar/tests/Attic/listed02.sh?rev=1.2&;
content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

> 
> tar-1.4.90 build and tested fine on the following plattforms:
> 

Great :) Thank you.

Regards,
Sergey