Re: Test failure tests/date/date-tests with current CVS

[Thomas Schwinge]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:44:36PM +0100, Ed Avis wrote:
> I configured and built the current CVS HEAD of coreutils, but 'make
> check' fails with
> 
> make  check-TESTS
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/home/ed/cvs_working/coreutils/tests/date'
> ./date-tests: line 777: ./utc-1.I: No such file or directory
> ./date-tests: line 795: ./utc-1a.I: No such file or directory
> FAIL: date-tests
> ======================================
> 1 of 1 tests failed
> Please report to address@hidden
> ======================================
> make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
> 
> I am not sure what generates that file or why it is missing; it seems
> to be Test.pm but how?

Just an addition:
In order to make various tests succeed on a cvs checkout of
'COREUTILS-5_2_1' I had to do
#v+
touch tests/{cut,date,join,pr,tac,tail,test,tr,wc}/Test.pm
#v-
before running configure, make etc.


Regards,
 Thomas