Re: a coreutils release is imminent

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 3/20/2007 3:41 PM:
> In the mean time, here's the latest snapshot:
> 
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz.sig
> 
> Please build it and run "make -k check" on a few unusual
> systems today or tomorrow and report any problems.  That might
> save someone (yourself, even) some trouble down the road.

Here's the summary of failures seen so far on cygwin; I haven't had time
to run verbose logs yet, and it appears the testsuite is hung in
sort-compress.  From past experience, several failures are related to
cygwin's tough stance on no absolute file names longer than 260 bytes.
Some are related to the fact that Windows and therefore cygwin violates
POSIX by allowing deletion of files in unwritable directories.  Some are
related to the fact that I haven't yet figured out how to recognize
trivial ACL's on directories in cygwin, meaning that ls -l currently
always adds the + at the end of the mode for directories.  And some are
probably related to cygwin's special handling of .exe extensions.
However, I don't think any of them are showstoppers (I maintain the cygwin
port, and am willing to patch any of the critical failures before
publishing the cygwin 6.9 compilation, including disabling sort-compress
if need be, without holding up the release on more traditional platforms).
 I guess I'm getting behind in posting testsuite patches that work around
bugs where the testsuite is making assumptions incompatible with cygwin.

tests/cp:
cp: skipping file `fifo', as it was replaced while being copied
./file-perm-race: line 50: echo: write error: Broken pipe
cat: ls.out: No such file or directory
FAIL: file-perm-race
cp: skipping file `mode/fifo', as it was replaced while being copied
./parent-perm-race: line 62: echo: write error: Broken pipe
cp: skipping file `ownership/fifo', as it was replaced while being copied
./parent-perm-race: line 62: echo: write error: Broken pipe
FAIL: parent-perm-race
FAIL: fail-perm
FAIL: cp-parents

tests/du:
File name too long at -e line 2.
./long-from-unreadable: failure in testing framework
FAIL: long-from-unreadable
out exp differ: char 20, line 1
1c1
< du: cannot access: Too many levels of symbolic links
- ---
> du: cannot access: File name too long
FAIL: long-sloop
du: failed to return to initial working directory: Permission denied
FAIL: inaccessible-cwd

tests/install:
FAIL: basic-1

tests/ls:
- - exp differ: char 38, line 2
2c2
< ?????????? ? ?            ? s.lnk
- ---
> ?????????? ? ?            ? s
- - exp differ: char 46, line 2
2,3c2,3
<   ?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? s.lnk
< //DIRED// 44 49
- ---
>   ?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? s
> //DIRED// 44 45
FAIL: stat-failed

tests/ls-2:
- -: q: No such file or directory
FAIL: tests

tests/misc:
FAIL: mknod
pwd-long: at depth 5: File name too long
FAIL: pwd-long
hung at sort-compress

Also, tests/nohup leaks output during the test:

stdout
nohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdout
PASS: nohup


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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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