Re: coreutils-5.0 irix-6.5.19 1 of 9 tests failed in du: slink

[Jim Meyering]

Thank you for reporting that.
To get more details, first run

  cd tests/du
  env VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS=slink

That will probably show you that the grep command is failing
to find a symlink with nonzero size.

So we'll need more information to diagnose the problem.
For starters, the file system type.  Please run this:

  df -T .

Then edit the script, slink, to comment out (or remove) this line:

trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0

And run the above again:

  env VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS=slink

This time, it will leave behind a directory named slink.tmp.
Please look in there for the file named `out' to see why the
grep fails.

  cat slink.tmp/*/out

At worst, please just send me the output from the above commands.


Bernd Melchers <address@hidden> wrote:
> There is an error reported by 'make check' in the slink script for
> the du command:
>
> % uname -a
> IRIX64 Hoover 6.5 01100601 IP27
>
> % cd coreutils-5.0/tests/du
...
> FAIL: slink