Re: 2 minor test fails on FreeBSD-10 with 8.22.157-1b243

[Pádraig Brady]

On 07/18/2014 10:19 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Trying the latest git revision (8.22.157-1b243) on FreeBSD-10, two small 
> tests fail:
> 
> =====
> 
> FAIL: tests/misc/help-version
> =============================
> 
> who: /etc/utmp: No such file or directory
> FAIL: who
> users: /etc/utmp: No such file or directory
> FAIL: users
> pinky: /etc/utmp: No such file or directory

I'm seing that on FreeBSD 9.1 too.
I reported that when testing the previous release,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-12/msg00096.html

> FAIL: tests/misc/date
> =====================
> 
> localtime(72057594037927936) too large at ./tests/misc/date.pl line 54.
> localtime(72057594037927936) failed at ./tests/misc/date.pl line 54.
> date.pl: test uninit-64 failed: exit status mismatch:  expected 1, got 0

I didn't see that error here.
Perhaps there is a mismatch between the perl limits
and the GNU date limits on that system?

thanks!
Pádraig.