[bug #56831] FAIL: tests/find/printf_inode

[James Youngman]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #56831 (project findutils):

As you're pointing out there are two issues here.

(1) Is the test suite overriding the user's choice of PATH?  
  ... If yes, that would be a bug.

(2) Should the behaviour of -printf %i follow GNU ls or the system ls?

For (2), since POSIX doesn't specify -printf, the decision to follow GNU ls
specifically is certainly acceptable.  The option of emulating the system's ls
seems like it would require a lot of code.  This code would be hard to  test
since the maintainers would need to perform regression tests on every
supported system (and, right now, there is no real notion of "supported
system"; we attempt to support all systems that Autoconf can grok which have a
standard-conforming hosted C implementation and on which the build tool
dependencies can be built).

I tried to reproduce this problem, and didn't discover a location in which
$PATH was changed in this way.   The test environment setup does prepend some
directories, but these should only be source directories within the source
tree and the build tree (if different).

Do you have, perhaps, $ENV set to a file which unconditionally sets $PATH to
eliminate the PATH setting you are selecting with /usr/bin/env?   If you are,
I'd suggest undetting $ENV.

Otherwise, I think I need more data about what is happening for you.   Try
modifying init.cfg to print $PATH at the end of init.cfg.  The output should
turn up in tests/find/printf_inode.log.      If that looks OK, check init.sh
and the test script itself.   You can use make -n to figure out how the test
script is being invoked.

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