Re: make check "failure" on Itanium HPUX

[mwoehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> mwoehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > mwoehlke wrote:
> > > This is a little odd... 'make' exits non-zero when doing 'make
> > > check' (help-version) on Itanium Linux, but the tests all seem to
> > > pass. Here is the relevant verbose output:
> > > [snip]
> > ...and similarly on HPUX, although the tests pass, 'make check' just
> > *fails*, and in this case I'm not seeing why. I'm attaching the log in
> > case anyone spots something I didn't. (Maybe it's the same problem?)
>
> This bit looks like the cause:
> >         t=ls-files.$$;                                          \
> >         (cd . && ls -1 *.x) | sed 's/\.x$//' | LC_ALL=C sort > $t;\
> >         echo base64.1 basename.1 cat.1 chgrp.1 chmod.1 chown.1 chroot.1 cksum.1 
> > comm.1 cp.1 csplit.1 cut.1 date.1 dd.1 df.1 dir.1 dircolors.1 dirname.1 du.1 
> > echo.1 env.1 expand.1 expr.1 factor.1 false.1 fmt.1 fold.1 groups.1 head.1 
> > hostid.1 hostname.1 id.1 install.1 join.1 kill.1 link.1 ln.1 logname.1 ls.1 
> > md5sum.1 mkdir.1 mkfifo.1 mknod.1 mv.1 nice.1 nl.1 nohup.1 od.1 paste.1 
> > pathchk.1 pinky.1 pr.1 printenv.1 printf.1 ptx.1 pwd.1 readlink.1 rm.1 rmdir.1 
> > seq.1 sha1sum.1 sha224sum.1 sha256sum.1 sha384sum.1 sha512sum.1 shred.1 shuf.1 
> > sleep.1 sort.1 split.1 stat.1 stty.1 su.1 sum.1 sync.1 tac.1 tail.1 tee.1 
> > test.1 touch.1 tr.1 true.1 tsort.1 tty.1 uname.1 unexpand.1 uniq.1 unlink.1 
> > uptime.1 users.1 vdir.1 wc.1 who.1 whoami.1 yes.1 | tr -s ' ' '\n' | sed 
> > 's/\.1$//'     \
> >           | LC_ALL=C sort | diff - $t || { rm $t; exit 1; };            \
> >         rm $t
> > /usr/bin/posix/sh[5]: 12357 Memory fault(coredump)
> > make[2]: *** [check-x-vs-1] Error 1

Yup, it does; didn't spot that. But...

> (do you have "/usr/bin/posix" in your shell's search path?)

...no I don't.

$ which -a sh
/usr/bin/sh
$ ll /usr/bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 544232 Aug  8  2002 /usr/bin/sh

So unless this is some weird HPUX thing I'm not sure where 
/usr/bin/posix/sh came from. Anyway, to me that looks like a fluke since 
'make check' shouldn't be doing anything in 'man', yes? IOW this one can 
be safely ignored?

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Matthew
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