Subject: bug#10531: bug in make check

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:56:16 +0100

MiadBahrami wrote:
> ======================================
> 1 of 369 tests failed
> (47 tests were not run)
> See tests/test-suite.log
> Please report to [email-masked]
> ======================================

Thank you for testing and reporting that.
However, the version you tested is 8.4 which is two years old,
while the latest is 8.15.  There have been many changes since
then, including several to tail in the vicinity of the test that
failed for you.

Can you get coreutils-8.15 and test that instead?