Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm testing the latest coreutils snapshot (6.10.176-383b1) on several
> platforms and on three of them, the seq command is failing in "make check"
>
> On Solaris 8 (sparc), Solaris 8 (intel), and SGI Irix 6.2, the command;
>
>       src/seq 0.8 0.1 0.90000000000000000000
>
> prints
>
>       0.8
>
> On the other platforms (and with earlier releases of the seq command), it
> prints the expected:
>
>       0.8
>       0.9

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the report.
I don't have access to any systems like that.
Can you (or anyone who does) debug it or give me temporary access?

This is not a big deal.  If it can't be resolved quickly,
I'll just comment out that test and make the release.

Jim