Re: looking for ia64 linux newer than 2.4.19 [Re: coreutils-6.6 check failures on Itanium Linux

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> If anyone in the audience has access to an ia64 system running a kernel
>> newer than linux-2.4.19, would you please let me know?
>
> SLES8 is using 2.4.21.

Thanks.
I found a better way to handle this:

        * tests/mv/no-target-dir: Detect a buggy rename syscall.  If found,
        skip this test.  This happens at least on ia64 linux-2.4.19 w/ext3.
        Reported by Matthew Woehlke.

Matthew or Bob, would you please confirm that this detects the
problem and skips the test?

diff --git a/tests/mv/no-target-dir b/tests/mv/no-target-dir
index cf4891c..db7fe94 100755
--- a/tests/mv/no-target-dir
+++ b/tests/mv/no-target-dir
@@ -35,11 +35,19 @@ cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
 mkdir -p d/sub empty src d2/sub e2 || framework_failure=1
 touch f || framework_failure=1

+# Skip this test if there's an underlying kernel bug.
+mkdir a b b/a || framework_failure=1
+
 if test $framework_failure = 1; then
   echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2
   (exit 1); exit 1
 fi

+mv a b || {
+  echo "$0: skipping this test: your kernel's rename syscall is buggy" 1>&2
+  (exit 77); exit 77
+}
+
 fail=0

 # This should succeed, since both src and dest are directories,