Re: coreutils-6.7 fails "make check" on OS/X

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:47:18AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> With it, your system should pass this test now:
>>
>>   make -C tests/chgrp check TESTS=basic
>>
>> Can you confirm that?
>
> Yes, it now passes that test.   I see that you are only excluding
> the failure on darwin7.9.0.  I wonder if you want something more
> general as it appears that chgrp does not set ctime on OS/X 10.4
> (darwin8.8.0) either.

Thanks.  I've done that, too.  Patch here:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=summary

> Also, once it passes that check, I'm getting another failure on the
> darwin7.9.0 machine...
>
> PASS: update
> PASS: i-2
> mv: cannot create fifo tmp/tmp24692/mv-null': Operation not permitted
> FAIL: mv-special-1

Can you run this?

    env VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/mv TESTS=mv-special-1

and tell us what type of file system is making mv's (copy.c's)
mknod or mkfifo call fail?

And please tell us whether it's also trying the mkfifo call.
(you can just look for HAVE_MKFIFO in lib/config.h)

The next time you run "make check", please
insert a "-k" option and run "make -k check" instead,
so it runs all of the tests, even if there are failures.