Subject: Re: bug#29285: Error building coreutils 8.28.32-a4eed under Archlinux from AUR

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:09:39 -0600

tags 29285 moreinfo
stop

(triaging old bugs)

Hello,

On 2017-11-13 7:43 a.m., timofonic timofonic wrote:
> 
> As the coreutils build system reported, I'm sending the following
> building error from using the coreutils-git Arch User Repository
> package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coreutils-git/)
> 

Based on the attached logs, it's a gnulib test failure;

===
FAIL: test-getlogin
===================

test-getlogin.h:79: assertion 'pwd->pw_uid == stat_buf.st_uid' failed
FAIL test-getlogin (exit status: 134)
====

It's been a while since your report (sorry about that).
Do you still get similar failure with more recent coreutils versions?

-assaf