Hi Jim.

On 01/03/2012 06:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> FYI, here's a snapshot of what will soon be coreutils-8.15,
> expected on Thursday or Friday.
> 
> coreutils snapshot:
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz      5.2 MB
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-8.14.116-1e18d.tar.xz
>

Minimal system info:

  $ uname -n -s -r
  NetBSD gcc70.fsffrance.org 5.1

Commands used to test the snapshot package:

  $ (set -x \
  >   && ./configure \
  >   && cat config.log \
  >   && make -j4 all \
  >   && VERBOSE=yes AM_COLOR_TESTS=always make -j4 check \
  > ) 2>&1 | tee all.log
  ...
  =================================================================
  Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.14.116-1e18d
  =================================================================
  # TOTAL: 466
  # PASS:  366
  # SKIP:  86
  # XFAIL: 0
  # FAIL:  14
  # XPASS: 0
  # ERROR: 0
  ==================================================================
  ...
  make: stopped in /home/slattarini/tmp/coreutils-8.14.116-1e18d
  *** [check] Error code 2
  1 error

(BTW, I see you have used bleeding-edge automake from master to build
the snapshot; are you sure that is safe for production code?  Because
I'm not ...)

Attached are the (compressed) contents of the all.log file.  Let me know
if you need more information.

Regards,
  Stefano