bug#8005: coreutils-8.10: make check failure

[Chris Clayton]

On Tuesday 08 February 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Chris Clayton wrote:
> > Firstly, please cc me on any reply because I'm not subscribed.
> >
> > I'm trying to build coreutils-8.10 but am getting a failure when I run
> > make check.
> >
> > The failure occurs in check cp/sparse-fiemap and the log of that check is
> > as follows:
> >
> > make  check-TESTS
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chris/rpm/BUILD/coreutils-8.10/tests'
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/chris/rpm/BUILD/coreutils-8.10/tests'
> > FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap
> > ==============================================
> >    GNU coreutils 8.10: tests/test-suite.log
> > ==============================================
> >
> > 1 of 1 test failed.
> >
> > .. contents:: :depth: 2
> >
> >
> > FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap (exit: 1)
> > ================================
>
> Thanks for the report.
> I suspect that is merely a weakness in the test script and not a real
> problem, and in fact Pádraig Brady posted a patch that probably fixes it
> here:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.announce/65/focus=867
>

Indeed,  Pádraig's patch does fix the problem. :)

> Just in case, can you tell us about your system
> (i.e., uname -a) and file system type (df -T .) ?

Just for the record I was building on 2.6.37 (and tried 2.6.38-rc4 too) and the 
fs was ext4 mounted via loop (by the test script)

Thanks to Jim and Pádraig,

Chris

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