Re: coreutils-6.2: various runtime problems on Darwin-8.7.0 HFS+ (including attachment this time)

[mwoehlke]

mwoehlke wrote:
> mwoehlke wrote:
> > Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > > > mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > > address@hidden wrote:
> > > > > > > [let me see if gmane lets me reply to posts]
> > > > > > gmane works great, it's the only way I read this list (and several
> > > > > > others). :-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > btw, thanks for the mails... I just built coreutils on Darwin 
> > > > > > also, and had a good number of 'make check' failures. I am also 
> > > > > > noticing
> > > > > > that after making coreutils (and some other packages, I think bash
> > > > > > was one), to remove the directory, I have to
> > > > > > 'rm -rf coreutils-5.97' as many as four times before it fully goes
> > > > > > away. Odd that just doing it several times in succession works,
> > > > > > though.
> > > > > Now, *that* is interesting.
> > > > > Would you please see if you can reproduce that using an rm binary
> > > > > built from coreutils-6.2?  I couldn't, when using an hfs partition
> > > > > on Darwin 8.7.0.  The core of rm was seriously revamped between
> > > > > coreutils-5.97 and 6.0.
> > > > I plan to, as soon as I get a chance. FYI this was on an NFS mount so
> > > > there might be some weird interaction with the NFS driver... although
> > > > I've built coreutils 5.97 on almost a dozen platforms and Darwin (both
> > > > x86 and PowerPC as I recall) is the only OS that's given me problems.
> > >
> > > I was unable to reproduce that.  Tried both NFS and hfs.
> > > If you can, please give details asap.  I expect to release
> > > coreutils-6.3 very soon.
> > > It'd be particularly useful to know how many files it removes
> > > at each iteration.
> >
> > Did you try with 5.97? I haven't tried 6.2 yet (will try to do that 
> > soon)... 
>
> Ok, I just tried with the "latest" version you sent me (post-6.2, 
> will-be-6.3 for the rest of the list) with the same results.

Hmm, and Darwin on x86 seems OK?

$ uname -srvmpio
Darwin 8.6.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.1: Tue Mar  7 16:55:45 PST 2006; 
root:xnu-792.9.22.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 iMac4,1 Darwin

Ah, but it's also a much newer Darwin... so...

> I'm working on building test output (including verbose) for the entire 
> suite for Darwin PowerPC (the same machine I did the last test on).

Ok, I have the 'check' output; it is 6 files (one master, five 
individual failed tests with VERBOSE=yes) and 43k. .tar.bz2'd it is 6k. 
Which form is preferred?

Also 'pinky' and 'help-version' failed; I couldn't figure out how to run 
these by themselves and figured these two probably weren't as important 
as the rm, cp, mv, and chmod failures (and the fifth was du).

> > [snip previous output]

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Matthew
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