Re: Failed tests for gnu coreutils 5.2.1

[Paul Eggert]

"J.D. Baldwin" <address@hidden> writes:

> Note that neither -n or -G works with Solaris /usr/bin/id

Thanks for your bug report.  However, that shell script actually tries
this command:

(id -nG || /usr/xpg4/bin/id -nG) 2>/dev/null

Does this not work, when run as root on your host?
It works for me (on Solaris 9).

> If I re-run it with /usr/xpg4/bin/id (which
> does work with -nG) at the head of PATH, I get the same result
> (skipped no-x test).

That will normally happen, unless you set the environment variable
NON_ROOT_USERNAME to a reasonable value, as described in the README
file for coreutils.

> If I set FETISH_GROUPS, the test fails:

I suspect that this is because the setuidgid program drops
supplementary groups, so setting FETISH_GROUPS won't work here.

> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/opt/src/coreutils-5.2.1/tests/stty'
> FAIL: row-col-1

Please try the following patch to tests/stty/row-col-1.  It's
installed in coreutils CVS right now.

--- row-col-1   14 May 2003 06:27:45 -0000      1.8
+++ row-col-1   3 Jan 2005 21:25:13 -0000       1.10
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ fi
 COLUMNS=80
 export COLUMNS
 
+# Make sure we get English-language behavior.
+# See the report about a possibly-related Solaris problem by Alexandre 
Peshansky
+# <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-10/msg00035.html>.
+# Currently stty isn't localized, but it might be in the future.
+LC_ALL=C
+export LC_ALL
+
 # Make sure there's a tty on stdin.
 . $srcdir/../input-tty
 
@@ -19,13 +26,13 @@ export COLUMNS
 
 tests='
 1 rows_40_columns_80 40_80
-2 rows_0_columns_0 0_0
+2 rows_1_columns_1 1_1
 3 rows_40_columns_80 40_80
-4 rows_0 0_80
-5 columns_0 0_0
-6 rows_40 40_0
-7 rows_0 0_0
-8 columns_80 0_80
+4 rows_1 1_80
+5 columns_1 1_1
+6 rows_40 40_1
+7 rows_1 1_1
+8 columns_80 1_80
 9 rows_30 30_80
 NA LAST NA
 '