Re: coreutils 6.0.194 on MacOS X 10.5

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> Here's what I hope will be the final snapshot before 6.11:
>
> There's still a lot to fix for MacOS X 10.5.2 (the current release of
> MacOS X). Find attached the log files from
>
>   ./configure --prefix=/Users/bruno/data/local-macos CPPFLAGS=-Wall
>   make
>   make -k check
>
> $ grep FAIL: check.log
> FAIL: help-version.log
> FAIL: parent-perm.log
> FAIL: file-perm-race.log
> FAIL: parent-perm-race.log
> FAIL: existing-perm-race.log
> FAIL: backup-dir.log
> FAIL: src-base-dot.log
> FAIL: preserve-2.log
> FAIL: fail-perm.log
> FAIL: cp-parents.log
> FAIL: parent-perm.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: file-perm-race.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: parent-perm-race.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: existing-perm-race.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: backup-dir.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: src-base-dot.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: preserve-2.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: fail-perm.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: cp-parents.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: basic-1.log
> FAIL: create-leading.log
> FAIL: basic-1.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: create-leading.log (exit: 1)
> FAIL: misc.log
> FAIL: misc.log (exit: 1)
>
> Can you already guess the causes, based on the log files?

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for reporting all that.
However, I suspect the vast majority of the trouble is due to
infrastructure problems rather than bugs in the tools themselves.
It's as if whatever shell it's using is not honoring $PATH and thus
s running system-supplied versions of the tools rather than
the just-built ones from coreutils.

Can you run the tests again, but this time so that they use bash?
I.e., if you have installed bash in /usr/local/bin/bash, do this:

  make check PREFERABLY_POSIX_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash