Re: test failure 5.1.1

[Jim Meyering]

Peter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Flying blind here, a test failed and I saw "Please report to
> address@hidden", so... (Linux pozzo 2.4.17 #2 Wed Feb 6 12:05:55
> CST 2002 i686 unknown)
>
> http://www.ointment.org/coreutils.html

Thank you for reporting that.
I suspect that you set SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX to something
unconventional in your environment.  And since neither of those
tests anticipate that oddity, they fail.

This patch appears to solve the problem:

Index: hard-4
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/tests/mv/hard-4,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.1 hard-4
--- hard-4      4 Apr 2003 21:47:26 -0000       1.1
+++ hard-4      19 Jan 2004 22:43:31 -0000
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
   mv --version
 fi
 
+. $srcdir/../envvar-check
+
 pwd=`pwd`
 t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
 trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
Index: backup-is-src
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/tests/mv/backup-is-src,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.9 backup-is-src
--- backup-is-src       22 Oct 2000 13:09:33 -0000      1.9
+++ backup-is-src       19 Jan 2004 22:43:19 -0000
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
 fi
 
 . $srcdir/setup
+. $srcdir/../envvar-check
 
 if test -z "$other_partition_tmpdir"; then
   exit 77