bug#14024: Test failure in coreutils 8.13

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/21/2013 04:55 PM, Ellis N. Thomas wrote:
>     Test failure in coreutils 8.13
> 
> To: <address@hidden>
> 
> 1 Background
> 
>     The release used was NOT the latest, so it is quite likely that these 
> matters
> have been previously addressed.  On the other hand, it is possible that
> installation has not been attempted for this actual Unix version.
> 
> Running Mac OS X:
> 
>   System Version:    Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
>   Kernel Version:    Darwin 9.8.0
>   >uname -mpv
>   Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; 
> root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
> 
>     The reason for installing 8.13 was that version 8.21 from the ftp area
> (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/) was an xz version and there seemed to be
> no support for that format on this machine.  The latest gz was 8.13 from
> Sep 2011, so also downloaded version 8.13, and proceeded to install this.

Testing and Max OS X is appreciated.
It would be better to start with the latest.

A quick google suggests that xz should be easy to get for MacOSX,
in any case for convenience I've made it available at:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-8.21.tar.gz

which was generated using:

rel=8.21
wget -O- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-$rel.tar.xz |
xz -dc | gzip -9 > coreutils-$rel.tar.gz
gpg --sign -ab -o coreutils-$rel.tar.gz.sig coreutils-$rel.tar.gz

thanks,
Pádraig.