Re: Test failure when building in setgid directory

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/03/2024 16:29, Sven Joachim wrote:
> When building coreutils 9.4.170-7b206 on x86_64 GNU/Linux, I got a test
> failure in tests/chmod/symlinks, apparently because I was building in a
> setgid directory.  The log file of the failed test is attached.
>
> ,----
> | $ LANG=C ls -ld /usr/local/src/coreutils
> | drwxr-sr-x 17 sven src 4096 Mar 24 17:18 /usr/local/src/coreutils
> `----

Yes Bruno Haible also noticed this (on Alpine).
The attached should fix this.

cheers,
Pádraig

chmod-symlinks-test-setgid.patch
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