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Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:28:35 +0200 |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm testing the latest coreutils snapshot (6.10.176-383b1) on several
>> platforms and on three of them, the seq command is failing in "make check"
>>
>> On Solaris 8 (sparc), Solaris 8 (intel), and SGI Irix 6.2, the command;
>>
>> src/seq 0.8 0.1 0.90000000000000000000
>>
>> prints
>>
>> 0.8
>>
>> On the other platforms (and with earlier releases of the seq command), it
>> prints the expected:
>>
>> 0.8
>> 0.9
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for the report.
> I don't have access to any systems like that.
> Can you (or anyone who does) debug it or give me temporary access?
>
> This is not a big deal. If it can't be resolved quickly,
> I'll just comment out that test and make the release.
Peter, what version of gcc are you using?
I built on an Irix-6.5 system using gcc-3.4.3, and that test passed.