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Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:09:31 +0100

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> The 5.3.0 testsuite does not even get a chance to run on cygwin, because
> the check-README target of src/Makefile does not take into account
> ${EXEEXT}.  See the attached coreutils.check, and my proposed patch below.
>  However, I didn't have automake 1.9.4, and could not get `autoreconf
> -fiv' to incorporate my patch (undistributed gnulib files, or an
> incomplete ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, perhaps?), see the attached coreutils.check2.

autoreconf should work fine.

>  Once I manually patched the corresponding Makefile.ins, I don't get very
> far into the testsuite (1 of 5 failed under tests/chgrp), see
> coreutils.check3.  I haven't yet had time to figure out how to get any
> further.

If you run `make -k check', it will keep going in spite of failures.

Thanks for the report and patch.
I've made that change.

> 2005-01-11  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
>
>         * src/Makefile.am (check-README, check-AUTHORS): Account for
>         $(EXEEXT).
>         * man/Makefile.am (all_programs): Account for $(EXEEXT).

Note that those patches don't apply because something (your mail
client?) converted all TABs to spaces.




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