Re: compiling error

[Ralf Wildenhues]

continuing the topic: misc/sort-merge failure
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14202/focus=14203>
(also for me, neither of the suggestions there help)
and <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14235>

* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:10:44PM CEST:
> Jeph Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I tried both the patch and the subsequent commenting out of
> > nmerge-no's ERR_SUBST line. Neither produced positive results. See
> > attached file.
> 
> It looks like mkstemp may be misbehaving on your system.
> It seems to be setting the first byte of the template
> string to \0.  Hence the bogus diagnostic.

Yep, exactly:

$ cat a.c
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  char s[] = "does/not/exist/XXXXXX";
  int ret = mkstemp (s);
  printf ("s is '%s', s+1 is '%s', ret is %d\n", s, s+1, ret);
  return 0;
}
$ cc -o a a.c &&./a
s is '', s+1 is 'oes/not/exist/2YApMa', ret is -1


> Now, it'd be good to find out which version of mkstemp
> the code is using: the one in lib/mkstemp.c or the one
> from your C library.

The one from the C library.

> To that end, please see if lib/mkstemp.o
> exists.  If not, rebuild like this to ensure that sort is
> linked to the coreutils-provided version:
> 
>     env gl_cv_func_working_mkstemp=no ./configure && make && make check

FWIW, you can provide gl_cv_func_working_mkstemp=no also as argument to
configure.

Reconfiguring like this fixes the failure.


FWIW, after updating I also get these other failures that Jeph reported,
here's the output with GNU diff in PATH (sorry for not looking at them
any further yet).

Cheers,
Ralf

===========================================
 3 of 348 tests failed
 (55 tests were not run)
 See tests/test-suite.log
 Please report it to address@hidden
===========================================

=======================================================
   GNU coreutils 6.12.135-b041: tests/test-suite.log
=======================================================

3 of 348 tests failed.  (55 tests were not run).

.. contents:: :depth: 2


FAIL: misc/expr.log (exit: 1)
=============================

expr: arbitrary-precision support is not available
expr (GNU coreutils) 6.12.135-b041
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Parker and James Youngman.
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bignum-add...
expr: test bignum-add failed: exit status mismatch:  expected 0, got 3
bignum-add2...
expr: test bignum-add2 failed: exit status mismatch:  expected 0, got 3
bignum-sub...
expr: test bignum-sub failed: exit status mismatch:  expected 0, got 3
bignum-sub2...
expr: test bignum-sub2 failed: exit status mismatch:  expected 0, got 3
bignum-mul...
expr: test bignum-mul failed: exit status mismatch:  expected 0, got 3
bignum-div...
expr: test bignum-div failed: exit status mismatch:  expected 0, got 3
Can't remove directory 
/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests/expr.tmp-9eO4: Device 
busy at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/File/Temp.pm line 858

FAIL: cp/thru-dangling.log (exit: 1)
====================================

+ cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 6.12.135-b041
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
+ . ../../coreutils/tests/test-lib.sh
+ unset function_test
+ eval function_test() { return 11; }; function_test
+ function_test
+ test 11 != 11
+ + pwd
test_dir_=/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests
+ + this_test_
this_test=thru-dangling
+ + /home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/src/mktemp -d 
--tmp=/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests 
cu-thru-dangling.XXXXXXXXXX
t_=/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests/cu-thru-dangling.X13DeiKQM4
+ trap remove_tmp_ 0
+ trap (exit $?); exit $? 1 2 13 15
+ cd 
/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests/cu-thru-dangling.X13DeiKQM4
+ 2>& 1 1> /dev/null
+ grep GNU
+ diff --version
+ 0< /dev/null 2>& 1
+ ln -s no-such dangle
+ echo hi
+ 1> f
+ echo hi
+ 1> exp
+ echo cp: not writing through dangling symlink `dangle'
+ 1> exp-err
+ fail=0
+ cp f dangle
+ 1> err 2>& 1
+ compare err exp-err
+ test -f no-such
+ cp f dangle
+ 1> out 2>& 1
+ cat no-such
+ 1>> out
+ compare out exp
--- out 2008-08-12 19:24:01.000000000 +0000
+++ exp 2008-08-12 19:24:01.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-+ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
 hi
+ fail=1
+ exit 1
+ exit 1
+ remove_tmp_

FAIL: dd/misc.log (exit: 1)
===========================

+ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 6.12.135-b041
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
+ . ../../coreutils/tests/test-lib.sh
+ unset function_test
+ eval function_test() { return 11; }; function_test
+ function_test
+ test 11 != 11
+ + pwd
test_dir_=/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests
+ + this_test_
this_test=misc
+ + /home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/src/mktemp -d 
--tmp=/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests 
cu-misc.XXXXXXXXXX
t_=/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests/cu-misc.d5YXHoo1kt
+ trap remove_tmp_ 0
+ trap (exit $?); exit $? 1 2 13 15
+ cd 
/home/rwild/coreutils/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests/cu-misc.d5YXHoo1kt+ 
2>& 1 1> /dev/null
+ grep GNU
+ diff --version
+ 0< /dev/null 2>& 1
+ tmp_in=dd-in.2474112
+ tmp_in2=dd-in2.2474112
+ tmp_sym=dd-sym.2474112
+ tmp_out=dd-out.2474112
+ fail=0
+ warn=0
+ echo data
+ 1> dd-in.2474112
+ ln dd-in.2474112 dd-in2.2474112
+ ln -s dd-in.2474112 dd-sym.2474112
+ dd if=dd-in.2474112 of=dd-out.2474112
+ 2> /dev/null
+ compare dd-in.2474112 dd-out.2474112
+ rm dd-out.2474112
+ dd -- if=dd-in.2474112 of=dd-out.2474112
+ 2> /dev/null
+ compare dd-in.2474112 dd-out.2474112
+ dd oflag=append if=dd-in.2474112 of=dd-out.2474112
+ 2> /dev/null
+ compare dd-in.2474112 dd-out.2474112
+ cat /dev/stdin
+ 0< dd-in.2474112 2> /dev/null
+ dd iflag=nofollow if=dd-in.2474112 count=0
+ 2> /dev/null
+ dd iflag=directory if=. count=0
+ 2> /dev/null
+ + ls -u --full-time dd-in.2474112
old_ls=-rw-rw-r-- 2 rwild rwild 5 2008-08-12 19:24:02.000000000 +0000 
dd-in.2474112
+ sleep 1
+ dd iflag=noatime if=dd-in.2474112 of=dd-out.2474112
+ 2> /dev/null
+ dd oflag=nolinks if=dd-in.2474112 of=dd-out.2474112
+ 2> /dev/null
+ + echo x
+ wc -c
+ dd bs=3 ibs=10 obs=10 conv=sync
+ 2> /dev/null
outbytes=3
+ test 3 -eq 3
+ dd bs=4 status=noxfer iflag=fullblock
+ echo a
+ sleep .1
+ 1> out 2> err
+ echo b
+ printf a\nb\n
+ 1> out_ok
+ echo 1+0 records in
1+0 records out
+ 1> err_ok
+ compare out_ok out
+ compare err_ok err
--- err_ok      2008-08-12 19:24:03.000000000 +0000
+++ err 2008-08-12 19:24:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
++ LC_ALL=C
 1+0 records in
 1+0 records out
+ fail=1
+ test 1 -eq 0
+ exit 1
+ exit 1
+ remove_tmp_
gmake[4]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1


==============================================================
GNU coreutils 6.12.135-b041: gnulib-tests/test-suite.log
==============================================================

1 of 99 tests failed.  (5 tests were not run).

.. contents:: :depth: 2


FAIL: test-copy-acl.sh.log (exit: 1)
====================================

error accessing the ACLs of file tmpfile0
./../../coreutils/gnulib-tests/test-copy-acl.sh[5]: 1257504 IOT/Abort 
trap(coredump)