Re: AIX tests failures

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:

> With coreutils 5.96, I get three failures on AIX 4.3.3, namely:
> cp/fail-perm, rm/inaccessible, help-version.
>
> Verbose output is below.  The last one looks funny. :-)
...
> $ env VERBOSE=yes TESTS=help-version make check-TESTS
> [...]
> + 0< in-2578 1> out-2578
> ../../src/dircolors: <internal>:54: unrecognized keyword OTHER_WRITABLERITABLE
> + echo FAIL: dircolors
> FAIL: dircolors

Odd, indeed.
Does the generated file, dircolors.h, look alright?
Here's a snippet from mine:

  "SETGID 30;43 # file that is setgid (g+s)\0"
  "STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE 30;42 # dir that is sticky and other-writable 
(+t,o+w)\0
"
  "OTHER_WRITABLE 34;42 # dir that is other-writable (o+w) and not sticky\0"
  "STICKY 37;44 # dir with the sticky bit set (+t) and not other-writable\0"
  "# This is for files with execute permission:\0"
  "EXEC 01;32\0"

If yours looks the same, then that failure may be due to compiler
limitations.  The string defined in that file is pretty long.
Which compiler are you using?