Re: coreutils 6.9.92 fail to configure on *bsd

[Elias Pipping]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:20:27PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> >     FAIL: help-version.log
> >     FAIL: parent-perm.log
> >     FAIL: file-perm-race.log
> >     FAIL: parent-perm-race.log
> 
> >From your log:
> 
>   + mkfifo mode/fifo
>   + cp_pid=74839
>   + cp --preserve=mode -R --copy-contents --parents mode d
>   + ls -ld d/mode
>   + echo foo
>   cp: `mode/fifo': No such file or directory
> 
> This suggests that the mkfifo program did not do its job
> (did not create mode/fifo), yet exited successfully.
> mkfifo.c does little more than to call the mkfifo function.
> 
> Does this print anything?
> 
>     rm -rf fifo
>     perl -MPOSIX -e 'mkfifo "fifo", 0644 or die "$!\n"'

Nope, mkfifo appears to be working fine -- it must be something else.

  % /bin/rm -rf fifo
  % /usr/bin/perl -MPOSIX -e 'mkfifo "fifo", 0644 or die "$!\n"'
  % /bin/ls -l fifo
  prw-r--r--  1 pipping  staff  0 Jan 13 16:54 fifo
  % /usr/bin/file fifo 
  fifo: fifo (named pipe)

  % /bin/rm -rf fifo                                            
  % ./src/mkfifo fifo
  % /bin/ls -l fifo   
  prw-r--r--  1 pipping  staff  0 Jan 13 16:54 fifo
  % /usr/bin/file fifo
  fifo: fifo (named pipe)
  % while true; do echo $foo > fifo; ((foo++)); sleep 1; done
  ^C

and in another shell

  % /usr/bin/tail -f fifo

  1
  2
  3
  4
  5
  6
  ^C

> >     FAIL: backup-dir.log
> >     FAIL: src-base-dot.log
> >     FAIL: preserve-2.log
> >     FAIL: fail-perm.log
> >     FAIL: cp-parents.log
> >     FAIL: basic-1.log
> >     FAIL: create-leading.log
> >     FAIL: misc.log
> 
> For most of the above, this appears (judging solely
> from that log) to be a problem involving the lchmod function
> as called by copy.c's copy_internal function.
> E.g.,
>   ginstall: setting permissions for `no-dir1/no-dir2/dest': Invalid argument
>   cp: setting permissions for `g/sym/b/c': Invalid argument
> 
> Can you debug that?

Honestly, no -- I don't know how. I'll happily give you ssh access to my
box though, if you want.

> > (*) tested on powerpc-unknown-openbsd4.2, i386-apple-darwin9.1.0
> >
> > PS: I have yet to run expensive tests and check-root
> 
> It'd be great if you could run those, too.

On powerpc-unknown-openbsd4.2, RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS does not yield
any failure. there's one with check-root: 

  preserve-gid

-> coreutils-6.9.92-check-powerc-openbsd42.log.bz2


On i386-apple-darwin9.1.0, this one fails with RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS:

  cp/perm

-> coreutils-6.9.92-check-i386-darwin9-expensive.log.bz2

and these fail with check-root:

  special-bits
  preserve-gid

-> coreutils-6.9.92-check-i386-darwin9-root.log.bz2


-- Elias

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