Re: coreutils-6.11: misc tests are PATH dependent

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> BTW, those thousands of lines are remarkably similar to what you
>> reported here for MacOS X 10.5:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13270/focus=13273
>> minus the failures, of course.  So I guess you ran those tests with
>> "." early in your PATH, too.
>
> I ran them with "." in the PATH. But when I run the entire build and check
> with
>   
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> none of the test failures disappears.

I've seen enough fundamental, OS-related bugs causing coreutils test
failures on that system that I don't worry much about failures
there anymore.  If someone who relies on it would like to investigate,
that'd be great.