bug#14024: Test failure in coreutils 8.13

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/27/2013 09:08 PM, Ellis N. Thomas wrote:
> Pádraig,
> 
>     Concerning the file system:  The Apple Finder 'get info' on the hard 
> drive says:
> Format :    Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
> 
> and mount for root says:
>  >mount
>  /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
> 
>     I could not locate ginstall on this machine, nor
> by searching on the Gnu website.
>  >type {g,}install
>  bash: type: ginstall: not found

Sorry ginstall is the built binary which will be copied
from your $build_dir/src to the system
(usually as install(1) as you've noticed).

>  > echo test > a
>  > install -Cv -m0644 a b
>  install: a -> b
>  > stat a b
>  234881026 6243208 -rw-r--r-- 1 ellisnthomas staff 0 5 "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" 
> "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" 4096 8 0 
> a
>  234881026 6243209 -rw-r--r-- 1 ellisnthomas staff 0 5 "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" 
> "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" "Mar 27 18:22:25 2013" 4096 8 0 
> b
>  > install -Cv -m0644 a b
> 
>     and with usr/local/bin/install
>  >echo test > a
>  >/usr/local/bin/install  -Cv -m0644 a b
>  'a' -> 'b'
>  >stat a b
>  234881026 6243501 -rw-r--r-- 1 ellisnthomas staff 0 5 "Mar 27 20:11:58 2013" 
> "Mar 27 20:11:29 2013" "Mar 27 20:11:29 2013" "Mar 27 20:11:29 2013" 4096 8 0 
> a
>  234881026 6243502 -rw-r--r-- 1 ellisnthomas staff 0 5 "Mar 27 20:11:58 2013" 
> "Mar 27 20:11:58 2013" "Mar 27 20:11:58 2013" "Mar 27 20:11:58 2013" 4096 8 0 
> b
>  >/usr/local/bin/install  -Cv -m0644 a b

OK with both of those we see that the second install(1)
invocation did nothing as one would expect,
but that's not what happened in the failing test.

Does that test failure happen every time?
I.E. does this fail every time?

  make check TESTS=tests/install/install-C.sh VERBOSE=yes SUBDIRS=.

Can you confirm the versions of install available:

install --version
/usr/local/bin/install --version
src/ginstall --version

If src/ginstall is different to the other two,
then it would be worth repeating the following with it:

>> Could you indicate the file system you're using,
>> give the output of:
>>
>> echo test > a
>> ginstall -Cv -m0644 a b
>> stat a b
>> ginstall -Cv -m0644 a b

thanks,
Pádraig.