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

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

Peter, what version of gcc are you using?

I built on an Irix-6.5 system using gcc-3.4.3, and that test passed.