Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.31] testsuite: 124 failed

[Bruce Dubbs]

On 01/03/2019 04:42 AM, Chris Clayton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building tar-1.31 on a homebrew system that is based on (Beyond)
> Linux From Scratch. It is very stable even though
> it is frequently ahead of LFS in terms of installed package
> versions.

tar is not in BLFS and BLFS is not ahead of LFS.  Both are released at 
the same time.

> I am building with the latest snapshot of gcc-8.
>
> Please let me know if I there is any other information you need or
> can  help in any other way (e.g. test fixes).
>
> Chris Clayton

On my reference LFS system I get:

208 tests were successful.
21 tests were skipped.

 15: compress: lzip                       skipped (compress-lzip.at:28)
 16: compress: lzop                       skipped (compress-lzop.at:28)
 17: compress: zstd                       skipped (compress-zstd.at:28)
 82: extracting symlinks to a read-only dir  skipped (extrac07.at:30)
 84: extracting even when . and .. are unreadable    skipped 
(extrac09.at:37)
 90: extract parent mkdir failure         skipped (extrac15.at:28)
 96: delay-directory-restore              skipped (extrac21.at:33)
109: incremental dump when the parent directory is unreadable skipped 
(listed03.at:27)
131: ignfail                              skipped (ignfail.at:26)
150: volumes split at an extended header  skipped (multiv07.at:31)
160: listing sparse files bigger than 2^33 B  skipped (sparse05.at:31)
176: volume header size                   skipped (volsize.at:32)
184: remove-files with compression        skipped (remfiles01.at:32)
216: selinux: basic store/restore         skipped (selnx01.at:28)
217: acls/selinux: special files & fifos  skipped (selacl01.at:28)
224: gtarfail                             skipped (gtarfail.at:26)
225: gtarfail2                            skipped (gtarfail2.at:26)
226: multi-fail                           skipped (multi-fail.at:26)
227: ustar-big-2g                         skipped (ustar-big-2g.at:26)
228: ustar-big-8g                         skipped (ustar-big-8g.at:26)
229: pax-big-10g                          skipped (pax-big-10g.at:26)

Note that we normally build tar as root.

There were no failures.  Some skips are due to missing dependencies, but 
that is acceptable.

  -- Bruce Dubbs
     linuxfromscratch.org