Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier

[Jim Meyering]

Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: Re: make check problems with coreutils 7.2 and earlier, Jim...:
>> Thanks for the report.
>> The tests are designed always to set PATH to make
>> your shell use the just-built tools.
>>
>> If that's not happening for you, either the tool (yes) wasn't built
>> or your shell is not honoring the PATH settings in the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
>> variable, as set in tests/check.mk.  I suspect the latter.
>> It'd be useful to know which shell configure chose for you.
>> configure does try to find a sufficiently functional shell,
>> but perhaps your system has managed to trick it.
>>
>> Please send (to this same list) the output of running your
>> configure command, and the output from running "make check".
>
> Sure, included below.  Note that I use locally-compiled
> /local/gnu/bin/bash (4.0.10) as my shell, and I have seen occassional
> strage behavior with configure from some other packages in the past
> because it selects /bin/bash (3.00.16), but even if I set
> CONFIG_SHELL=/local/gnu/bin/bash and export and configure, I still get
> the same behavior.

Thanks.
That seems to rule out bash as the cause.

> ./configure --prefix=/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/local/gnu --build 
> x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --sysconfdir=/etc/local/gnu --libdir=/local/gnu/lib/64 
> --mandir=/local/gnu/share/man --infodir=/local/gnu/share/info 
> --localstatedir=/var/local/gnu --disable-nls

> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /local/gnu/bin/ginstall -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes

Considering all of the programs from /usr/xpg4/bin mentioned
in that output, I suspect you have an unusual PATH.
What is your PATH?

It might be useful also to add an echo "PATH: $PATH" to one of the
tests and check the .log file to see if that prints anything different.

> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... build-aux/install-sh -c -d
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... nawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
...