bug#7858: coreutils-8.9 test failed on rh5 amd

[Jim Meyering]

sam sirlin wrote:
...
> This is, I believe the relevant section:

Thanks for the report.
That is just what I needed.

> FAIL: cp/cp-parents (exit: 1)
> =============================
...
> ++ ls -ld e/d/a
> ++ cut -b-10
> + p=drwxr-xr-x
> + case $p in
> + fail=1
> ++ ls -ld g/sym
> ++ cut -b-10
> + p=drwxr-xr-x
> + case $p in
> + fail=1
> ++ ls -ld e/d/a/b/c
> ++ cut -b-10
> + p=drwxr-xr-x
> + case $p in
> ++ ls -ld g/sym/b/c
...

However, that test is rather old, and this is the first
report of its failure I've seen in a long time, so I expect
there must be something unusual about your environment.

I build on AMD/rhel-6 pretty regularly and have never seen that,
but I'm usually using local ext4 or tmpfs partitions.

Can you give more detail?
On what type of file system is your build dir?  (i.e., run df -T .)
If it's NFS, what can you tell me about the server?