Hello, I build coreutils 8.5. on: Linux xxx 2.6.9-89.0.23.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Mar 5 17:56:21 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Using > gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3) (Ok, probably there are other tools, that might be relevant... :-( I didn't use any configure-options, beside --prefix=... The testsuite reported "8 of 365 tests failed" and asked, to report it. ============================================= GNU coreutils 8.5: tests/test-suite.log ============================================= 8 of 365 tests failed. (54 tests were not run). ============================================= Here is /test-suite.log, stripped down to just the failed test: <> Regards Martin