bug#10423: problem with "make check" coreutils-8.14 after build on AIX (v5.3, xlc v7, ksh as default shell)

[Jim Meyering]

Michael Felt wrote:

> Sorry, lost me there...
>
> So, hopefully to improve both our understanding of what is happening...
>
> 1. I am using ksh (using bash did not change anything, unfortunately).
> 2. Running only init.sh returns the following (first not set, then set 
> VERBOSE=
> yes)

Sorry I wasn't clear.
I was explaining to Paul why VERBOSE=yes was having no effect.
init.sh is used internally via most tests.  There's no point
in running it stand-alone.

Here's something you can try, though:

edit init.sh and insert a "#" at the beginning of the set -x line.
I.e., change this:

    if $gl_set_x_corrupts_stderr_; then
      warn_ "using SHELL=$SHELL with 'set -x' corrupts stderr"
    else
      set -x
    fi

to this:

    if $gl_set_x_corrupts_stderr_; then
      warn_ "using SHELL=$SHELL with 'set -x' corrupts stderr"
    else
      # set -x
    fi

Then run "make check VERBOSE=yes" and send us the tests/test-suite.log
it produces.

That will probably induce additional test failures,
but at least it will allow us to see verbose output.