Re: coreutils-8.12.178-df9cd on IRIX 6.5

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/02/2011 07:22 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> In that context this line might need some casts to int?
>>
>>   tmp = tmpb - tmpa;
> 
> I changed this to
>     tmp = (int) tmpb - (int) tmpa;
> but the 4 tests still fail:
> 
> $ gmake check TESTS="misc/shuf misc/sort-month misc/sort-rand 
> misc/sort-version"
> gmake  check-TESTS
> gmake[1]: Entering directory 
> `/home/haible/multibuild-1209/irix65-cc/coreutils-8.12.178-df9cd/tests'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory 
> `/home/haible/multibuild-1209/irix65-cc/coreutils-8.12.178-df9cd/tests'
> FAIL: misc/shuf
> FAIL: misc/sort-month
> FAIL: misc/sort-rand
> FAIL: misc/sort-version
> ======================================
> 4 of 4 tests failed
> See tests/test-suite.log
> Please report to address@hidden
> ======================================
> gmake[2]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1

Drats. I'm a bit stumped.
Any chance I could get access to the irix machine?
Anything unusual about endianess or relative sizes of int/char
that might provide a clue?

cheers,
Pádraig.