[Bug-tar] Re: 1.16.1 MASSIVE test failures

[Matthew Woehlke]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Well, except for the two that only fail on NFS, x86/Solaris build OK... 
> but x86/Linux(!!), IA64/HP-UX and SPARC/Solaris all failed 
> catastrophically. What's interesting is that, with only very slight 
> variation, the exact same tests failed.
>
> SPARC/Solaris: 2 17 19 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 37 43 
> 44 45 46 47 50 51 53 63 64
> IA64/HP-UX: 2 6 17 19 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 37 43 44 
> 45 46 47 50 51 53 63
> x86/Linux: 2 17 19 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 37 43 44 45 
> 46 47 50 51 53 55 63
>
> ...in all cases, the tests were run on an NFS volume. (I'm not sure what 
> is with 55 on Linux, after letting it run for a few *HOURS* I finally 
> started poking at it from a different pty until it died. So that may or 
> may not be a genuine "failure", but there sure seems to be something 
> wrong with it.)
>
> Test 30 also failed on x86_64/Linux run on ext3; log attached. 'make 
> check' passes if I build (on ext3) with CFLAGS=-m32.

...any news here? I'm not anxious to upgrade tar when it fails half of 
its test suite.

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Matthew
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