Re: Coreutils 7.2 test failure on Slackware Linux

[Jim Meyering]

Brother Railgun of Reason wrote:
> Reporting as requested by testsuite:
>    GNU coreutils 7.2: gnulib-tests/test-suite.log
> 1 of 122 tests failed.  (15 tests were not run).
> .. contents:: :depth: 2
> FAIL: test-ftello.sh.log (exit: 1)
> ==================================
> test-ftello.c:119: assertion failed
> Aborted
>
> babylon5:alaric:~:6 $ uname -a
> Linux babylon5 2.4.34 #2 Thu Jan 18 23:47:39 EST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> babylon5:alaric:~:7 $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.1.1

Thanks for the report.
However, this failure is technically regarding part of gnulib,
so I've Cc'd its mailing list.

Since you're using 2.4.34, I wonder what version of glibc
you are using.  That is particularly relevant to many of
gnulib's stdio-related tests.

Note that due to the "#line 1" directive in that file,
the marked line is the one that is failing:

#if !defined __MINT__ /* FreeMiNT has problems seeking past end of file */
  /* Test ftell beyond end of file.  */
  ASSERT (fseek (stdin, 0, SEEK_END) == 0);
  ch = ftello (stdin);
  ASSERT (fseek (stdin, 10, SEEK_END) == 0);   <========
  ASSERT (ftell (stdin) == ch + 10);
  ASSERT (ftello (stdin) == ch + 10);
#endif