[Bug-cpio] [GNU cpio 2.11] testsuite: 5 failed

[Victor Rodriguez]

Hi team

Aparently there is a bug in build time test of cpio:

## ------------------------- ##
## GNU cpio 2.11 test suite. ##
## ------------------------- ##
  1: cpio version                                    ok
  2: basic functionality: copyin/copyout             ok
  3: symlink                                         ok
  4: interdir                                        ok
  5: symlink-bad-length                              FAILED
(symlink-bad-length.at:46)
  6: symlink-long                                    ok
  7: symlink-long                                    ok
  8: delayed setstat                                 ok
  9: delayed setstat (with -depth)                   ok
 10: delayed setstat (copy-pass)                     ok
 11: delayed setstat (umask)                         ok
 12: delayed setstat (umask, copy-pass)              ok


Checking the logs :

/testsuite.dir/05/stderr
cpio: premature end of file

testsuite.log :


## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: All 12 tests were run,
1 failed unexpectedly.


## ------------------------ ##
## Summary of the failures. ##
## ------------------------ ##
Failed tests:
GNU cpio 2.11 test suite test groups:

 NUM: FILE-NAME:LINE     TEST-GROUP-NAME
      KEYWORDS

   5: symlink-bad-length.at:23 symlink-bad-length
      symlink-long copyout

## ---------------------- ##
## Detailed failed tests. ##
## ---------------------- ##

#                             -*- compilation -*-
5. symlink-bad-length.at:23: testing symlink-bad-length ...
./symlink-bad-length.at:46:
base64 -d ARCHIVE.base64 > ARCHIVE || exit 77
TZ=UTC cpio -ntv < ARCHIVE 2>stderr
cat stderr | grep -v \
    -e 'stored filename length is out of range' \
    -e 'premature end of file' \
    -e 'archive header has reverse byte-order' \
    -e 'memory exhausted' \
    -e 'skipped [0-9][0-9]* bytes of junk' \
    -e '[0-9][0-9]* block' \
    >&2
echo >&2 STDERR

--- -   2015-06-02 09:55:31.243497680 +0000
+++ /builddir/build/BUILD/cpio-2.11/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/5/stdout
     2015-06-02 09:55:31.241557412 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
--rw-rw-r--   1 10029    10031          13 Nov 25 11:52 FILE
+-rw-rw-r--   1 10029    10031          13 Nov 25  2014 FILE

5. symlink-bad-length.at:23: 5. symlink-bad-length
(symlink-bad-length.at:23): FAILED (symlink-bad-length.at:46)

I am using the latest version and with latest patches:

https://download.clearlinux.org/current/source/SRPMS/cpio-2.11-13.src.rpm

( even with ./configure make and make check it fails )

Hope it helps

Thanks a lot for the help

Victor Rodriguez