Re: Coreutils 7.2 test failure on Slackware Linux

[Jim Meyering]

Brother Railgun of Reason wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:46:37AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'm using glibc-2.3.2 on this machine, for the time being.  (I plan to
> completely reinstall it shortly, after I get just a few more services
> migrated off it.)

Then don't sweat the ftello failure.
I think it can't impact coreutils in any case.