Re: coreutils-5.0 irix-6.5.19 1 of 9 tests failed in du: slink

[Bernd Melchers]

ok,
output from first check run in file "slink.pre.out" (see attachement).
output from df -T .:
% gdf -T .
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/lxvm/xvm_06
               xfs    35522208   2803456  32718752   8% /server

output from second run in file "slink.post.out" (see attachement).

% cat slink.tmp/*/out
0       1
0       15
0       16
0       31
0       32
0       59
0       60
0       63
0       64
0       127
0       128
0       255

> Thank you for reporting that.
> To get more details, first run
> 
>   cd tests/du
>   env VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS=slink
> 
> That will probably show you that the grep command is failing
> to find a symlink with nonzero size.
> 
> So we'll need more information to diagnose the problem.
> For starters, the file system type.  Please run this:
> 
>   df -T .
> 
> Then edit the script, slink, to comment out (or remove) this line:
> 
> trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
> 
> And run the above again:
> 
>   env VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS=slink
> 
> This time, it will leave behind a directory named slink.tmp.
> Please look in there for the file named `out' to see why the
> grep fails.
> 
>   cat slink.tmp/*/out
> 
> At worst, please just send me the output from the above commands.
> 
> 
> Bernd Melchers <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There is an error reported by 'make check' in the slink script for
> > the du command:
> >
> > % uname -a
> > IRIX64 Hoover 6.5 01100601 IP27
> >
> > % cd coreutils-5.0/tests/du
> ...
> > FAIL: slink

mit freundlichen Grüßen
Bernd Melchers

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