Re: make check failure in fileutils-4.0.32

[Jim Meyering]

Vin Shelton <address@hidden> wrote:
|     Per your exhortations on gnu.utils.bug, I downloaded and built
| fileutils-4.0.32.  Last night on my x86 Linux box, I believe I had no
| difficulties, but today at work, I observed the following failure on
| both SunOS-4.1 and 5.5:
|
| PASS: special-1
| ../../../../../src/fileutils-4.0.32/tests/mkdir/perm: test: argument expected
| FAIL: perm
| PASS: parents
|
| I hope this helps.

Thanks!  It does.

| Let me know if you need any more detail.

That's odd.  It doesn't fail for me on any of SunOS4.1.4 or
Solaris2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8.

Would you please rerun that test like this:

  cd tests/mkdir
  env VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS=perm >& out

and send me the output?

Thanks again,
Jim