Re: Command-line program to convert 'human' sizes?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/06/2012 03:05 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With the attached patch, numfmt passes "make syntax-check" and almost passes "make check" 
> and "make distcheck".

Excellent, we'll review from there so.

> Regarding the checks: "tests/misc/numfmt.pl" passes all tests successfully.
>
> But:
>
> 1. When running "make check", "tests/df/total-verify.sh" fails, so the check 
> isn't complete.

I see you've reported this separately at:
http://bugs.gnu.org/13099

> 2. When running "make check TESTS=tests/misc/numfmt VERBOSE=yes", the tests 
> script passes, but the process later fails with this error:

> make[6]: Entering directory `/home/gordon/projects/coreutils/gnulib-tests'
> make[6]: *** No rule to make target `tests/misc/numfmt.log', needed by 
`test-suite.log'.  Stop.

Instructions were out of date, sorry.
I'm going to apply the following now.

thanks!
Pádraig.

commit 65ea59cf8a5c23c76b691bdd6e288c6340be40b5
Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Dec 6 09:29:34 2012 +0000

    maint: adjust instructions to run a single test

    * README: Adjust as per the recent changes introduced
    when switching to non recursive make.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 09961a0..3b5f576 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ in verbose mode for each failing test.  For example,
 if the test that fails is tests/misc/df, then you would
 run this command:

-  (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/df VERBOSE=yes) >> log 2>&1
+  make check TESTS=tests/df/df-P.sh VERBOSE=yes SUBDIRS=. >> log 2>&1

 For some tests, you can get even more detail by adding DEBUG=yes.
 Then include the contents of the file 'log' in your bug report.