glibc 2.3.1: failed test in "make check"

[Paul Jarc]

On my systems, /etc is a symlink.  "make check" ends with:
GCONV_PATH=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/iconvdata LC_ALL=C   
/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/elf/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path 
/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/math:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/elf:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/dlfcn:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/nss:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/nis:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/rt:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/resolv:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/crypt:/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/linuxthreads
 /home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib/test-canon 
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib > 
/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib/test-canon.out
make[2]: *** [/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib/test-canon.out] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/fs/home/mount/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1/stdlib'
make[1]: *** [stdlib/tests] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/fs/home/mount/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1'
make: *** [check] Error 2

stdlib/test-canon.out contains:
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib: flunked test 3 (expected 
`/etc', got `/fs/pkgs/mount/etc')
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib: flunked test 4 (expected 
`/etc', got `/fs/pkgs/mount/etc')
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib: flunked test 7 (expected 
resolved `/etc/doesNotExist', got `/fs/pkgs/mount/etc/doesNotExist')
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib: flunked test 18 
(expected `/etc', got `/fs/pkgs/mount/etc')
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib: flunked test 20 
(expected `/etc', got `/fs/pkgs/mount/etc')
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib: flunked test 22 
(expected `/etc', got `/fs/pkgs/mount/etc')
--test-dir=/home/prj/src/spf/glibc-2.3.1-build/stdlib: flunked test 24 
(expected `/etc', got `/fs/pkgs/mount/etc')
7 errors.


paul