Subject: Re: coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3: testsuite failures on NetBSD

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:54:14 +0100

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 09:40 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> We want to release coreutils-8.16 soon, so here's a snapshot.
>> I'll let the NEWS and git shortlog details say the rest,
>> other than "Thanks!" to all who are helping.
>>
> On NetBSD 5.1:
>
>   FAIL: rm/inaccessible
>   FAIL: misc/date
>   FAIL: misc/printf-cov
>   FAIL: misc/sort-discrim
>   FAIL: cp/preserve-slink-time
>   FAIL: dd/sparse
>   FAIL: du/inaccessible-cwd
>   FAIL: du/long-from-unreadable
>   FAIL: ls/block-size
>   FAIL: ls/stat-failed
>   FAIL: tail-2/pipe-f2
>   FAIL: touch/not-owner
>
>   # TOTAL: 476
>   # PASS:  377
>   # SKIP:  87
>   # XFAIL: 0
>   # FAIL:  12
>   # XPASS: 0
>   # ERROR: 0
>
> The test-suite.log and config.log files are attached (compressed).
> Let me know if you need more information (but alas, don't expect a
> quick feedback).

Hi Stefano,

Thanks for testing and reporting the results.

Unfortunately, from what I recall of NetBSD 5.x failures for the last few
coreutils releases, it had problems that seemed numerous and fundamental
enough that it wasn't worthwhile trying to address them.