Re: [Quilt-dev] perms.test fails on modern server

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 10:16, John Vandenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am testing quilt on a recently sync'd gentoo box; and it still fails
> for me.  This box has:
>
> GNU Awk 3.1.4
> ls (coreutils) 5.2.1
>
> Here is the output, but its essentially the same on every platform
> I've tested.  Does it work for anyone else?
>
> [...]
> -rwx---r-- foo                        ? -rwx---r-- 04:20
>
> Any clues on what could be causing the problem?

The test case is bad. I have LANG set to en_US.UTF-8 here, which changes the 
date format. I'll fix the test case, and change test/Makefile so that it runs 
the test cases with an empty LANG.

> Here is the fix that works for me:
> http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/test-ls-column-count.diff

Thanks!

-- Andreas.