Re: [Quilt-dev] perms.test fails on modern server

[Jean Delvare]

Hi John,

[John Vandenberg]
> I am testing quilt on a recently sync'd gentoo box; and it still fails
> for me.  This box has:
>
> GNU Awk 3.1.4
> ls (coreutils) 5.2.1
>
> Here is the output, but its essentially the same on every platform
> I've tested.  Does it work for anyone else?
>
> [perms.test]
> [1] $ umask 022 -- ok
> [2] $ mkdir d -- ok
> [3] $ cd d -- ok
> [4] $ echo foo > foo -- ok
> [5] $ chmod 704 foo -- ok
> [6] $ ls -l foo | awk '{ print $1,$8 }' -- failed
> -rwx---r-- foo                        ? -rwx---r-- 04:20

Same error here on Red Hat 8.0, but I know it works OK at home (Slackware
10.1) as it passes the full test suite.

> Any clues on what could be causing the problem?

Obviously a different output format for ls -l, although I can't remember
the exact difference.

> Here is the fix that works for me:
> http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/test-ls-column-count.diff

I came to the exact same fix :)

Will apply tonight.

Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare