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:
> What should the PATH variable be? Or is it continually changing?

PATH (from inside any test script) should have your
coreutils-8.14/src build directory as its first component.
This is set up via tests/check.mk, via the PATH=... setting in
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT defined there.

> p.s. I notice it ALWAYS fails after the touch/now/owned/by/other (FAIL) test.
> And, I am running this mounted over NVSv4 mount.
>
> I read somewhere that AIX is "notorious" for failing the "version"ing (in
> libtool, or configure scripts somewhere if I recall. No idea if this is
> related).

That's something else.