Re: two test failures on mips+old-glibc: test-fseeko.sh, test-ftello.sh

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 2/23/2009 12:28 AM:
> I started this build+test back before releasing coreutils-7.1,
> but it took so long, I chose not to wait for it.
> 
> The two failures were for gnulib unit tests:
> 
>   test-fseeko.c:58: assertion failed
>   ./test-fseeko.sh: line 3: 11084 Aborted ./test-fseeko${EXEEXT} 1 
> <"$srcdir/test-fseeko.sh"
> 
>   test-ftello.c:94: assertion failed
>   ./test-ftello.sh: line 3: 11114 Aborted ./test-ftello${EXEEXT} 1 
> <"$srcdir/test-ftello.sh"

These two tests have been failing for a long time on systems with buggy
ungetc, but no one has been motivated enough to write a gnulib ungetc
replacement to work around the deficiencies in these old platforms (in
part because it is so easy to avoid the ungetc bug - never ungetc() a
character that you didn't previously read).

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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