Re: coreutils-9.3.156-b3afb on AIX, CentOS 5, Alpine Linux, FreeBSD, Cygwin

[Pádraig Brady]

On 29/08/2023 09:35, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >    tests: avoid false failure on cygwin
> >    cksum: adjust tests and docs to binary mode handling
> >    all: avoid duplicated write errors on FreeBSD
> >    tests: avoid false failure where sleep is a shell builtin
> >    build: fix link errors of sort, split on CentOS 5 and Solaris 10
> >    build: fix compilation error on AIX 7.1
> >    build: update with gnulib fixes
> >    doc: remove older ChangeLog items
> >    shred: fix operation on Solaris with 64 bit builds
>
> Test results on selected platforms:
>
> * On AIX, the previously reported build failures are gone.
>    When I exclude the ibm-clang compiler (buggy, like its predecessor xlclang),
>    I get consistent results:
>    - On AIX 7.1:
>      ERROR: tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail
>      ERROR: tests/cp/nfs-removal-race
>      ERROR: tests/df/no-mtab-status
>      ERROR: tests/df/skip-duplicates
>      ERROR: tests/ls/getxattr-speedup
>      FAIL: tests/help/help-version
>      FAIL: [
>      FAIL: tests/sort/sort-continue
>    - On AIX 7.3.1:
>      FAIL: tests/help/help-version
>      FAIL: tests/sort/sort-continue
>      FAIL: tests/misc/stdbuf
>      FAIL: tests/install/basic-1
>      FAIL: tests/mkdir/p-3
>
> * CentOS 5: The previously reported link errors are gone. Still, 4 test 
> failures:
>    FAIL: tests/sort/sort-continue
>    FAIL: tests/sort/sort-merge-fdlimit
>    FAIL: tests/cp/attr-existing
>    FAIL: tests/mv/part-symlink
>    Same as reported in
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-08/msg00066.html
>
> * Alpine Linux 3.14 (on this machine I have perl installed):
>    FAIL: tests/cp/preserve-mode
>    (same in both coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab and coreutils-9.3.156-b3afb)
>
> * FreeBSD 13.1/x86_64: All tests pass.
>
> * Cygwin 2.9.0 (on this machine I have perl installed): 8 ERROR and 28 FAIL.
>    Compared to what I reported in
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-08/msg00081.html :
>    - The same ERRORs.
>    - Two FAILures are fixed:
>        FAIL: tests/cksum/b2sum
>        FAIL: tests/cksum/sm3sum
>    - tests/cksum/md5sum-bsd still fails, despite the
>      "tests: avoid false failure on cygwin" commit
>      
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=b3afbcad9ca68863ea3c049f7d5ce0860d07f260

Thanks for all the testing Bruno.
We're gradually improving.
I don't think there is anything blocking here anyway.
I'll prepare the release...

cheers,
Pádraig