Subject: posixtm failure [was: bug#8017: Error compiling coreutils]

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:19:22 -0700

On 02/11/2011 09:53 AM, Toni Venters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The update for coreutils doesn't seem to want to compile.  It appears to be
> failing one of the tests that it runs.  I've copied some of the print out
> below.

Thanks for the report.

First, coreutils _did_ compile, it's just the test that failed.  You can
probably install it anyways.

> FAIL: test-posixtm (exit: 1)
> ============================
> 
> 000001010000.00 mismatch (-: actual; +:expected)
> --62167132800
> +-62167219200
> 000012312359.59 return value mismatch: got 0, expected 1
> 

This particular test comes from gnulib, so I've added bug-gnulib in case
someone there has better ideas on how to troubleshoot if it is a
weakness in the test or a bug in fink's implementation of posixtm() that
gnulib should be working around.

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