Re: sharutils-4.5.1 build problem report

[Bruce Korb]

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I have just made build attempts for sharutils-4.5.1 on 22 flavors of
> Unix.  There seem to be a couple of errors that appear repeatedly,
> causing all of the builds to fail.
>
> On 18 of the 22 builds, I got this validation test failure:
>
>    PASS: uutest-1
>    PASS: uude-1
>    PASS: shar-1
>    9,14c9,14
>    < #     30 -rw-r--r-- one/first
>    < #    101 -rw-r--r-- one/second
>    < #     26 -rw-r--r-- first
>    < #     30 -rw-r--r-- two/first
>    < #    101 -rw-r--r-- two/second
>    < #     93 -rw-r--r-- second
>    ---
>    > #     93 -rw-rw-r-- second
>    > #    101 -rw-rw-r-- one/second
>    > #     30 -rw-rw-r-- one/first
>    > #     26 -rw-rw-r-- first
>    > #    101 -rw-rw-r-- two/second
>    > #     30 -rw-rw-r-- two/first

Dang!  Thank you, Nelson.  It means I either have to rethink how
to test a hierarchical archive, or not test it.  The latest bug
was an old bug revealed when someone was sharing up ".".  Probably
just not test the archive file, but test that the unrolled archive
is the same as the original.  More likely than not, everything
works fine, except that the test only works on my filesystem type.

Thanks. - Bruce  :(

P.S.  I have some doc changes to add in anyway....