Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

[Eric Blake]

Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> The test is still running.

misc/stdbuf hangs (cygwin still has some fifo issues that might be at play, but 
more importantly, dd appears to be stuck trying to write to a fifo that never 
gets filled because stdbuf isn't working).  I had to kill two different dd 
processes to get the testsuite to resume.

Another suspicious failure:

tests/misc/test-pwd.log
/home/eblake/coreutils/src/pwd.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
pwd-long:  does not contain old CWD

It looks like the test removes PATH from the environment; but this has the 
unfortunate side effect of crippling cygwin, which requires both /bin and 
Windows directories to be in PATH at all times for .dlls to be found and usable 
in running an executable, even when you don't otherwise use the PATH for the 
programs that you are invoking.  In other words, you should be doing something 
similar to 'command −p getconf PATH' to determine the bare minimum PATH rather 
than nuking it altogether; unfortunately, command -p getconf PATH is probably 
not portable.

-- 
Eric Blake