Subject: Re: bug#9394: coreutils-8.7 - few test cases failed

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:59:49 +0200

Toralf Förster wrote:
> At an almost stable Gentoo I get :
>
> ======================================
> 6 of 212 tests failed
> (15 tests were not run)
> See gnulib-tests/test-suite.log
> Please report to [email-masked]
> ======================================
...
> sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 was built with the following:

Thanks for the report, but why are you using coreutils-8.7?
The latest is 8.12, with 8.13 due this week or next.

Can you test with coreutils-8.12 instead?
If you find any test failures there, I would be most interested.
Odds are pretty good that any failures causing test failures in
coreutils-8.7 were fixed long ago, in subsequent releases.