Re: coreutils-7.4: make check fails under Solaris 8

[Pádraig Brady]

Christophe LYON wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just tried coreutils-7.4 on a Solaris machine (built with
> GCC-4.2.0).
> 
> "make check" fails on misc/date-next-dow:
> date-next-dow: test dow2: stdout mismatch, comparing dow2.O (actual) and
> dow2.1 (expected)
> *** dow2.O    Tue May 12 15:06:24 2009
> --- dow2.1    Tue May 12 15:06:24 2009
> ***************
> *** 1 ****
> ! 2009-05-12
> --- 1 ----
> ! %F
> next-dow...
> date-next-dow: test next-dow: stdout mismatch, comparing next-dow.O
> (actual) and next-dow.1 (expected)
> *** next-dow.O    Tue May 12 15:06:24 2009
> --- next-dow.1    Tue May 12 15:06:24 2009
> ***************
> *** 1 ****
> ! 2009-05-19
> --- 1 ----
> ! %F
> 
> 
> Is this feature relying on something not available under Solaris 8, or
> should it actually pass?


I'm guessing the Solaris 8 system strftime() (called by Perl)
doesn't support %F, whereas `date +%F` is using a gnulib replacement?
This can be replaced I think with "%Y-%m-%d", as in the diff below.

cheers,
Pádraig.

diff --git a/tests/misc/date-next-dow b/tests/misc/date-next-dow
index 0bc94e1..8fdab02 100755
--- a/tests/misc/date-next-dow
+++ b/tests/misc/date-next-dow
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ my @Tests =
      # Running "date -d mon +%a" on a Monday must print Mon.
      ['dow',  "-d $wday_str +%a", {OUT => ucfirst $wday_str}],
      # It had better be the same date, too.
-     ['dow2', "-d $wday_str +%F", {OUT => strftime("%F", @d)}],
+     ['dow2', "-d $wday_str +%Y-%m-%d", {OUT => strftime("%Y-%m-%d", @d)}],

-     ['next-dow', "-d 'next $wday_str' +%F", {OUT => strftime("%F", @d_week)}],
+     ['next-dow', "-d 'next $wday_str' +%Y-%m-%d", {OUT => 
strftime("%Y-%m-%d", @d_week)}],
     );

 # Append "\n" to each OUT=> RHS if the expected exit value is either